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Now lets think about this for a moment.... Is there more news generated for fox news if there is another conservative in the whitehouse or a scum sucking liberal?
Yes, she has done wonders for the people of the State of New York, and her brilliant, incisive legislative ability has helped foster a cooperative spirit in The Senate which has enabled that august body to work together diligently on issues of vital importance, such as Iraq, Iran, North Korea, energy, and immigration. If we had 99 more like Hillary, we could put the Founding Fathers to shame. </sarcasm>
Probably a good move for Murdoch on a couple of fronts. One, it helps difuse the notion that his media empire is beholden to conservatives, and hopes to increase his audience amongst liberals. And two, who do the Republicans really want as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008? Hilary is their best choice to oppose and help energize their base, so why not help get her in that spot.
Seems to me the super-rich generally hedge their bets and buy influence with both parties, but maybe more with liberal democrats since that's the source of the highest potential for damage to their interests, and an easy way to buy absolution from the media.
If the Democrats were to get back in power they would try to use some law like reenacting the so called Fairness Doctrine to control Fox. Murdock is just seeing to it that Hillary owes him big time.
Big corporations with any savy try to buy politicians on both sides of the isle. That way they are not in too bad a shape no matter who wins.
Those that think Murdock is ideological are just not thinking straight. Murdock did fox the way he did because it was a way to achieve financial success. Had he done a CNN clone he would still be trying to make Fox profitable.
Murdock will always do what he thinks is best for his companies.
Look at what Clear Channel is doing. They are the distributors of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck among others. So what did they do, they have been taking a station in nearly every market and putting Air America on it. It does not matter that everyone of the Air America stations are losing money. When the Democrats come to power, they will know that it was clear channel that put Air America on in all the big markets. It is not Clear Channels fault that Air America does not draw an audience.
Clear Channel knows that if the Democrats get in power they will pick on some other big chain owner that is not promoting Air America.
It is called covering your rump for anythink that can happen.
It does not surprise me at all, given his obvious staffing support for man hating feminism, and the fact that he left his last wife for an employee forty years younger than him. He had also divorced a wife before that one for a younger woman.
...true romanticist (literally, if you've studied the history of romanticism).
It might be that he is trying to help her win the Demo nomination because he knows she will get creamed.
This is disgusting.
Mr. Murdoch is just a fair and balanced opportunist, it seems.
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**Rupert Murdoch has agreed to host a political fundraiser for Hillary Clinton this summer! **
Why, for crying out loud?
I guess she dropped a tab of LSD in his drink. Either that or he was threatened with Arkancide.
Incomprehensible. Or better, reprehensible.
Any Republican would want her to be the candidate, because she's unelectable.
The fact that Murdoch will host a fundraiser for Clinton, or even create one, or even give her campaign tons of money for that matter, only has significance for the political and chattering classes. He cannot make or break any candidate, but it is the fond conceit of these people that their mutual "support" or endorsement is essential to them retaining their "empires". Murdoch coming out with the "appearance" of support for Hillary is like Murdoch or any corporate CEO giving large amounts to candidates from both parties, or both political organizations directly. It is called hedging your bets, since implicit in it is the acknowledgement that they don't know who will in fact win, and they want to be in a good position no matter who does win. The fact that he "backed" Blair and Blair won means nothing---millions of others backed Blair as well.
and all the freepers will still watch fox news and american idol.