News Corp. President Endorses Kerry

Broadcasting & Cable ^ | 8.4.04 | John Eggerton

[mhking]

According to the Kerry for President campaign, News Corp. President and chief operating officer Peter Chernin has endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate. News Corp. owns Fox News Channel.

That would put Chernin in the ranks of some other Kerry-supporting media executives, including Barry Diller, Kirk Kerkorian (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.) and Harvey and Robert Weinstein, who backed the release of Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11.

The Chernin endorsement was among that of 200 business leaders announced Wendesday, with Chernin attending a Wall Street to Main Street summit held by Kerry in Iowa.

The move didn't appear to surprise News Corp. Chernin talked to Fox New Channel about the endorsement Wednesday. Appearing on Your World with Neil Cavuto, he said he was not anti-Bush but explained why he thought News Corp. would benefit from a Kerry presidency.

"I think the two things that will be most important to News Corp is--one is education. We're a company where we don't manufacture anything. We depend on ideas. We essentially export ideas around the world and our ability to create those ideas is based on a highly educated creative workforce and so I think more than anything education is the thing that will be of greatest value to News Corp.

" I think the other thing is a real global focus, a focus on, you know, it's a world-wide market of 5 billion people, and I think the more this country looks outward and develops close relationships with economies and countries around the world, I think it creates bigger markets for our products and our ideas.

"This democracy is about making choices," he said, "and my choice is that I believe that Mr. Kerry can do a good job moving our economy forward."

Chernin's fondness for Kerry is no secret. He held a fund-raiser for Kerry on the Fox studio lot earlier in the year.

[mhking]

Oh, you've gotta be kidding!

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Petronski]

Just damn.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I wrote this Campign song for Kerry.



Changing with the Wind
Sung to Blowing in the Wind

How many times must he flip flop and flip,
Before he takes a firm stand?
How many lies must he tell about Nam,
Before we all call his hand?
How many times can he vote pro and con,
Before he is totally canned?
His answer my friend, is changing with the wind.
His answer is changing with the wind.
How many times will he say George Bush lied,
Before he tells us a fact?
How many times must I hear him drone on,
And still my ears stay intact?
How many deaths did he cause there in Nam,
With all his appeasements at home?
The answer and trend, John Kerry's not our friend,
The answer's John Kerry's not our friend.
How many terms could John Kerry serve,
Before America's gone?
How many days before he would cave in,
Afraid to protect our home?
How many weeks till he gave us away,
And let the UN take the throne?
The answer my friend, we'd twist in the wind,
The answer is we'd twist in the wind.

Conspiracy Guy 8/3/2004

[Jaded]

What does Rupert say?

[rdb3]

This just proves that the MSM is not biased.

No, siree. Not biased at all.

$710.96... The price of freedom

[x1stcav]

This guy has got to be the biggest egotistical idiot ever.

So now he expects us to continue watching Fox news.

Murdoch had better wake up.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I wrote this ad for him. Read it with your best fake Kerry voice.

Kerry 2004



I want to be the President,
Though all know I can’t lead.
I really want the power though,
It’s really what I need.



I’ll lie and cheat and fabricate,
I’ll flip and flop for sure.
The left’s so dumb they’ll vote for me,
For stupid, there’s no cure.



George Bush lied, I’ll chant and sing,
Though I know it’s not true.
I love America I’ll say,
Another lie for you.



I’ll back the UN’s global push,
No sovereignty for us.
The world rides free at our expense,
We’ll even buy the bus.



Let terror rain down on this land,
We really are to blame.
Oh yes, I fought in Viet Nam,
Four months, then home I came.



Three Purple Hearts for paper cuts,
Like some rite of passage.
You bet my name’s John Kerry,
And I approve this message.



Conspiracy Guy 7/30/2004

[Jaded]

You are multi-talented! Love it.

[ConservativeMan55]

I was watching Neil Cavuto today. It was a great setup. Kerry's gonna lose his base and fast if they saw this program.

Stuart Varney was really trumping it up about all the corporate CEO's supporting Kerry. Oh man..you know the greens had to be SEETHING MAD!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Thanks. Now I gotta drive home. Later.

[dufekin]

And (liberal) people say that the Fox News Channel is biased toward whom? Are they kidding themselves?

[Rome2000]

The "Kerry Campaign" is comprised of liars, imbeciles, perverts, and thieves.

Chernin would be fired in a New York minute if he endorsed the horse faced socialist phony francophile psychopath.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Isn't Kerry fro the little people that he is so in touch with? Gotta run. Later

[Mr. Mojo]

"I think the other thing is a real global focus, a focus on, you know, it's a world-wide market of 5 billion people" - Chernin

Peter, do you enjoy showing off your, you know, stupidity?

[theophilusscribe]

Chernin for Kerry. Rupert Murdoch for Bush.

Fair and Balanced.



Murdoch, Rupert Mr.:

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)
$25000

BUSH, GEORGE W (R) President BUSH-CHENEY '04 INC
$2000

[Bernard Marx]

So now he expects us to continue watching Fox news.

I'll start worrying the day Roger Ailes starts wearing a Kerry button. Won't happen.

Calm down a little...remember it's Fox's job to be "fair and balanced." It doesn't hurt to have some of that in corporate management either. As a newsman in years past I worked for very liberal papers (I had to eat!) that had extremely conservative publishers: they had very little say about newsroom operations. I wouldn't go that far about most TV networks today, but usually corporate officers worry about the bottom line and leave subsidiary operations in the hands of their respective professionals.

[hansel]

They just showed a clip of him on FoxNews saying that fighting two wars is bad for the US and Bush has been isolationist in his foreign policy.

How can we be fighting two wars and be isolationist at the same time?

[Dolphy]

The move didn't appear to surprise News Corp. Chernin talked to Fox New Channel about the endorsement Wednesday. Appearing on Your World with Neil Cavuto, he said he was not anti-Bush but explained why he thought News Corp. would benefit from a Kerry presidency.

I watch Fox less and less, usually just to watch Hume, who also seems to be there less and less. If he thinks John Kerry is going to improve education through support of the NEA, or global trade with his protectionist rhetoric, he ought to talk to those of us who have overcome both of these obstacles.

I'm not watching Fox News any longer, I can get all of my news here and on C-Span.

[hansel]

Roger Ailes hates Bush. He has a blog and has basically stated so. He is definitely voting for Kerry.