Posted on 11/23/2020 2:22:00 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Lachlan began to manifest, quietly, the inclinations he had gestured toward as a member of the Trinity Conservative Society. Speaking with Brooks, he described himself as “economically conservative but libertarian on people’s individual rights.” He offered an example. “I don’t smoke,” he said. “But I think taxes on cigarettes are the most outrageous example of the nanny state. It would be one thing if every penny went to researching lung cancer, but in fact it’s greedy politicians using the money to pork-barrel roads or put into the welfare state. People who want to smoke shouldn’t be burdened because of the political correctness of our times.”
Unlike his father, who is not shy about expressing the problematic ideas that have found their xenophobic expression on Fox News, Lachlan has tipped his political hand mostly behind closed doors, and even then, infrequently. The existence of his hardening views has mostly emerged in little-known accounts from former insiders of the Murdoch empire. One of those is Chris Mitchell, a longtime editor-in-chief of The Australian newspaper.
In an obscure memoir, Mitchell described a Pebble Beach retreat at which Al Gore debated a vocal skeptic of climate change. Lachlan, according to Mitchell, was “almost cheering” at the challenges to the former vice president. Mitchell also wrote about a private dinner at which Lachlan urged the prime minister of Australia not to object to Indonesia’s plans to execute two Australians on drug smuggling charges. The Australians, Lachlan argued, were getting what they deserved. Mitchell wrote, “As with his views on gun control in the United States, Lachlan’s conservatism is more vigorous than that of any Australian politician, [Tony] Abbott included, and usually to the right of his father’s ideas.” (Mitchell, contacted by The Intercept, declined to comment further.)
Of course, it’s difficult to know whether Lachlan
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As a sometime NWS shareholder, though, the real problem I see with Lachlan isn't his RINO beliefs - it's his business sense, or lack thereof. While in his 30's, in a fit of pique at Rupert for preferring Roger Ailes's management talents to his, he stepped away from Fox for a number of years. setting up a business and running it into the ground, losing 90% of his investors' money. It's of a piece with his decision to alienate his readers and listeners by making the Daily Mail, the NY Post and - now - Fox News, anti-Trump vehicles.
>> ideas that have found their xenophobic expression on Fox News
GTH, Maass, ya’ pathetic lyin’ ass.
I heard that it is his wife who is really running the show. I wish the Old Man would step in and take charge again.
The Left, as exemplified by Twitter, isn't bright enough to unlearn Pavlovian responses to FauxSnooz that were built into the lefties over many many years.
[I heard that it is his wife who is really running the show.]
FoxNews were 100% complicit in the fix.
They were active participants. Traitors deserve nothing less than the death penalty.
May they rest in feces...
If Gay Liberal Glenn Greenwald can’t stand the Website he founded, why post their crap here?
A Barf Alert should be mandatory with any Intercept dribble.
The Left, as exemplified by Twitter, isn’t bright enough to unlearn Pavlovian responses to FauxSnooz that were built into the lefties over many many years.
Yep. Leftists who never watch FNC are sure they know exactly what they broadcast. Hilarious.
[If Gay Liberal Glenn Greenwald can’t stand the Website he founded, why post their crap here?]
Besides, Greenwald’s objection wasn’t to what the Intercept published. It was with what the Intercept *wouldn’t* publish - namely the article that gave a pretty good reason why the Bidens should be investigated - by journalists, at the very least - for their fishy financial transactions.
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