Did you check the link? It’s Manning again.
But actually on this point, he is correct: bin Talal is a shareholder in Fox News, and he just recently (as in last week or something like that) the 2nd largest.
Did he put the kabosh on the birther story? Since he just upped his stake last week, it’s hard to imagine he did.
It’s a little disconcerting to see Fox News bought, even in the smallest part, by a Muzzie. I’ve posted to several threads that I thought the conservative movement was becoming too concentrated in one place, and suggested how neat it would be to see a news commentary station featuring Dobbs, Malkin, Ingraham, Crowley, etc.
But Manning is simply the radical left’s saboteur of conservatism.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in his U.S. investments, and sits on the board of his premier investment vehicle, Kingdom Holdings.
Prince Alwaleed, 53, is the nephew if King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia. Forbes magazine ranked him this year as the 19th richest person on the planet, with a fortune in excess of $23 billion. He owns large chunks of Citigroup and News Corp., the holding company that controls Fox News.
He is best known in the United States for his offer to donate $10 million to help rebuild downtown Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks. But after the prince made a public comment suggesting that U.S. policies had contributed to causing the attacks, Mayor Rudy Giuliani handed back his check.
“I entirely reject that statement,” Giuliani said. “There is no moral equivalent for this (terrorist) act. There is no justification for it. The people who did it lost any right to ask for justification for it when they slaughtered 4,000 or 5,000 innocent people.”
Since then, Prince Alwaleed’s Kingdom Foundation has given millions of dollars to Muslim charities in the United States, including several whose leaders have been indicted on terrorism-related charges in federal courts.
He also has given tens of millions of dollars to Harvard and other major U.S. universities, to establish programs in Islamic studies.
The casual statement by Percy Sutton to NY1 is the first [and LAST] time anyone has hinted at a relationship between Obama and the Saudi royal family.