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Too good to check: Rupert Murdoch interested in buying … NBC?
Hot Air ^ | Oct. 12, 2009 | Allahpundit

Posted on 10/12/2009 5:47:39 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

I’m going to say three words to you and I want you to think hard before responding: O’Reilly. Olbermann. Co-anchors.

No, I kid. Given the chairman’s opinion of Kayo, the only thing he’d be anchoring is the 2 a.m. edition of SportsCenter if ESPN took him back. Which, let’s face it, they wouldn’t.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NWSA.O) and John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp (LINTA.O) are interested in NBC Universal, according to a report by CNBC, citing sources.

Cable company Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) has been widely reported to be in talks with NBC Universal parent General Electric Co (GE.N) to buy a controlling stake in the broadcast, cable and movie company…

News Corp, which owns the Fox cable network and local TV stations, had been seen as a less likely bidder, analysts have said, because taking a stake in NBC might raise antitrust concerns with the U.S. government.

Yeah, “might.” What are the odds that Eric Holder “might” want to prevent the administration’s cable-news house organ from being acquired by a guy whose most famous holding is the subject of now-daily White House pants-wettings?

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KEYWORDS: murdoch; nbc; newscorp
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1 posted on 10/12/2009 5:47:39 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“famous holding is the subject of now-daily White House pants-wettings?”

Hysterical! LoL


2 posted on 10/12/2009 5:51:42 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I hope he buys that pile o’ crap. It would be hilarious!


3 posted on 10/12/2009 5:52:10 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Do you think the wh can take the slams against them if holder were to fight it?


4 posted on 10/12/2009 5:53:24 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

bump to the top


5 posted on 10/12/2009 5:55:24 PM PDT by GOPJ (Nominated:Chamberlain, Hitler, Stalin. Winners: Arafat,Carter, Gore, Obama.(Nobel Prizes of Shame))
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Holder needs to concentrate on the Black Panthers and ACORN.


6 posted on 10/12/2009 5:55:59 PM PDT by Achilles Heel
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Not slamming anybody, but why would he want to buy it, just to turn it into a quasi-FNC clone?

Rupert ain’t no dummy, he’d be playing both sides.


7 posted on 10/12/2009 5:56:37 PM PDT by jra
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s a bad idea. We need to spread the ownership around not consolidate it.


8 posted on 10/12/2009 5:56:52 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the passport, school and birth records.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

First thing I would so is send an email to the General Mailbox for MSNBC television.

“Your Fired”.


9 posted on 10/12/2009 5:57:59 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s getting crowded at Fox.


10 posted on 10/12/2009 5:57:59 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: Achilles Heel

That would be nice...


11 posted on 10/12/2009 5:59:04 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: jra

It seems like the same owner already owns cnn, nbc, abc and cbs. I agree with the idea of not having clones..we already have it!


12 posted on 10/12/2009 6:02:13 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Could be why nobamas herd is flailing away at FNC.

Talk about “worst case scenario” for the chavez wannabe, what if NBC turned against the kenyan’s BS tripe too????

With today’s insurance industry’s NobamaCare audit PR fiasco for demslibs, Acorn PR fiasco for nobama and all the nobama public ridicule laterly, I think his efforts are about to lose on his nobamacare and overall is falling down fast.


13 posted on 10/12/2009 6:02:29 PM PDT by dusttoyou (libs are all wee wee'd up and no place to go)
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To: jra

I didn’t know it was for sale.


14 posted on 10/12/2009 6:02:31 PM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: Big Horn
I didn’t know it was for sale.

Comcast was considering buying NBC as well. I think that move would influence me to switch to Dish Network and DSL. I love the ultra-fast internet connection, but I will not do business with commies.

15 posted on 10/12/2009 6:04:27 PM PDT by meyer ("I went to Europe to buy the Olympics for Chicago and all I got was this silly Nobel")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Fox Two! Fox Two!


16 posted on 10/12/2009 6:08:45 PM PDT by Wiz
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To: dusttoyou

The wh is scared of every thing right now, and their attacks on fox is proof. I think the theory is right, they are acting like nixon..


17 posted on 10/12/2009 6:10:07 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: meyer

I’m leaving comcast on the 21st for att u-verse. Tv, internet, phone with dvr for cheaper.


18 posted on 10/12/2009 6:10:44 PM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: ebshumidors
I'm not sure that AT&T offers that package here. I do have Bell South here (which is ATT) but I haven't seen the TV portion of the offer.

I no longer have a home phone - I bought an X-Link bluetooth box that allows me to run my house phones through my cell phone. That's $40 a month I don't have to spend!

19 posted on 10/12/2009 6:14:15 PM PDT by meyer ("I went to Europe to buy the Olympics for Chicago and all I got was this silly Nobel")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How come no-body ever mentions “anti-trust” in relation to Viacom? Time-Warner? etc etc


20 posted on 10/12/2009 6:17:11 PM PDT by GeronL ("On my twelfth day in office, Nobel nominated me..")
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