So Fox is a parasite, as well as part of a multinational criminal conspiracy.

Just as an abstract question, does that corporation have any value to its host country?

Sure as an outlet and mouthpiece for RWNF madness.

I wasn’t interested in a defense of Murdoch so I skipped Cohen’s column. I’m glad you linked to it. What a fawning, ass-kissing hagiography! Methinks Mr. Cohen will be working for Mr. Murdoch soon, that hard-working boy who started with “two modest papers inherited from his father”.

Well, it’s certainly an angle of the hacking scandal I wouldn’t have thought of.

OT, for those interested, here is a link to the Assange extradition hearings “live”.

As for Roopert M. he is nothing but a ruthless capitalist, one who is willing to do and say anything that will make him the almighty $/£. Truth, fairness and integrity mean absolutely nothing to him.

My phone is sure to be hacked, I keep pushing those rational policies like immigration laws that work for, instead of those like Alabama/Arizona – against – the economy.

Of course but contrary to the myth, conservatives and “libertarians” aren’t against paying taxes, merely against themselves paying taxes.

They’re sure to have many suggestions on how to spend those tax dollars, too.

Your phone/email/life is already under acute observation by the USACorp as is mine and, probably, all FDL members/commenters.

And if you have supported or attended any event questioning the “wars”, Congress, The Big Zero, Israel, the climate warming deniers or any Koch/GOP proposal and or candidate you are suspect. If you have supported any “socialist” policies you are in suspect Category #1.

Most of it involving vouchers and warz no doubt.

Good morning, pups. It’s Dowd and Friedman today. God only knows what MoDo’s been smoking… In “Hitler’s Talking Dogs” she raves: Pick your poison: killer sausages, talking dogs or toxic schnapps? It’s time for her to have her meds adjusted again. The Moustache of Wisdom, in “The Start-Up of You,” says this is not your parents’ job market. Workers need to be able to invent, adapt and reinvent their jobs every day.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and I’ve got some apple spice muffins that are still warm. I’m running late this morning, so I’m going to disappear now. Have a great day.

been in the files since the march on the Pentagon, back in the 60′s. and my kid, too, since he got wheeled around the WH a few times for peace.

Thanks, it’s the old unemployeds need to start their own business routine. Sick.

And the Border!

Yeah, me too, since I burned my draft card in ’64 and got chased by NIxon’s dogs in ’67 and got “detained” protesting the nuke plant in Seabrook….all of that and the FBI cleared me for citizenship in ’76.

God only knows what MoDo’s been smoking…

Obviously, she is not smoking the stuff that prevents premature dementia.

Bodyguard for the Brain: Researchers Identify Mechanism That Seems to Protect Brain from Aging

A gem from the Swedish Lawyer in the Assange hearing

Clare Montgomery attempts to undermine the Assange team’s arguments, saying: “Extradition offence means the conduct complained of. It has nothing to do with the evidence.”

Olbermann says he was blackmailed by Murdoch/Fox. Skip to the last minute.

It’s always time for MoDo to have her meds adjusted.

And I’ll jump ecstatically into a startup business the minute the MoW shows me how to purchase group rate health insurance for my wife and kids. No gots? Sorree. I’m stuck in Moria.

Tom says, “find a way to add value in a way no one else can. For entrepreneurs it’s differentiate or die — that now goes for all of us.” Too bad that doesn’t apply to him. He’d be a fantastic extra for SyFy.

Yep! And when their nanny Consuela and their gardener Rudy get deported and tomatoes cost five dollars apiece at Wal-Mart, it will all be part of a Liberal plot. Just ask Rush. On second thought, you won’t have to. There’s no shutting him up.

Well, gee golly whiz, look at all those jobs News Corp. has created by not paying taxes.

Rush will be heaving up slop about dropping babies.

Poor Olbermann, desperate to keep in the spotlight.

Rupert Murdoch deserves his face. He has earned his face.

If your premise were true, he wouldn’t have left MSNBC.

How can anybody read Cohen without fucking cracking up? Without Murdoch “the British newspaper industry might have disappeared entirely”? If Murdoch had never been born, there might not be any newspapers in the UK? Possibly the stupidest thing I have ever read. And God knows there is plenty of competition. Yet this moron delux writes it and the morons who start their day with the NYT ponder it. What the fuck? Has Cohen been blackmailed too? Or he is just showing his true allegiances? What horrendous bullshit.

Yep. He went from being on one of the big three networks with national and international exposure to a start up network with spotty coverage in some basic expanded cable packages. What a narcissist.

Over the past four years Murdoch’s U.S.-based News Corp. has made money on income taxes. Having earned $10.4 billion in profits, News Corp. would have been expected to pay $3.6 billion at the 35 percent corporate tax rate. Instead, it actually collected $4.8 billion in income tax refunds, all or nearly all from the U.S. government.

they bring the rain and then complain about the water

that obama, I bet he’s going to defend their tax breaks too

and then claim it’s got to be social security that doesn’t see the first check when it comes to who does not get paid

I bet he’s going to defend them too

and then tell us it’s going to be social security who does not get the first check when the debt ceiling is not raised

this debt ceiling “issue” was produced and authored by obama himself, how could he possibly complain about a corporation not paying taxes?…he’s the one that gave away even more “tax breaks”

No reason to raise taxes on corps or on the rich; they don’t pay anyway.
Murd. may solve the debt problem if he decides to change his ways.

How’s that primary coming?

“President Obama’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee together raised a whopping $86 million in the second quarter of 2011, campaign manager Jim Messina announced in an early morning online video sent to supporters.”

Let Obama pay to solve the debt problem; a good campaign ploy and he may get a charity deduction. I do remember all those numbers from little donations. Sure….

How do, Raven?

Hope things be well with you and yours.

DW

It’s not the fault of News Corp or GE,NBC or the Corporations that do not pay any Federal Tax.The Tax Codes that for the last 40 years of Incumbents in Congress and Senate has given for self wealth.Where the anger with Obama December 2010 giveing Tax cuts to the working and takeing from the money invested in Social Security away.One question why don’t wealthy Corporations pay Taxes.Answer your incumbent leach that created the tax codes.

I wrote a diary last night on the 1 trillion over 10 years available if Senator Levin’s bill stopping off shore tax fraud were to pass.

I notice that the bill has not got public endorsement by Dodd or Obama.

Watching this develop and Rupert dashing from a conference in Idaho for the MOTUs of the media world including Zuckerberg of Facebook in order to save the redhead, ( his lovechild or lover?)I was struck that perhaps Murdoch is getting a teensy, tiinsey bit too big for the invisible powers that be.
If he had taken over BSkyB in Britain, why he could have ruled the world! instead of just the USA.
Nonetheless, son James is in hot water here in the states for similar crimes.
TPTB can always break up the Murdoch empire into small enough parts to “fit in a bathtub” and still control the NOOZ; sorta like Ma Bell was broken up, but not really broken up, if you know what I mean, because they’re baaaaaaack!

Nope, I think Rupee steeped on some toes, big ones.. And now that Obama has proven such a good, sharp and willing tool for the destruction of the middle class in America, maybe Fox slavering is starting to get in the way.
It certainly seems as if the ENTIRE British government is breathing an outraged sigh of relief that they can finally get this guy gone…….maybe.
And it WILL spread across “the pond”.
I suspect that even TPTB don’t like how the Murdoch empire was starting to resemble organized crime to a lot of people they need in power as well as some of the sheep.
Fox better watch themselves. No NOOZ organization ought to be called “king-makers for the Republican party in a “democracy”.
Bad form, old chap!

Who Obama? He didn’t “create the tax codes” Reagan started doing that back in the 80′s.

TROLL ALERT!

the corporate leaches would be reagan an bush, who BOTH RAISED taxes on the labor class and lowered taxes for those who used the labor class’s assets to gather their wealth in the first place

then obama had the NERVE to extend that re-distribution of middle class assets, (marketed as “bush tax cuts for the wealthy” instead of the redistribution of our money)

that redistribution agenda is what we are paying for now, they took OUR money, then they complain about OUR investments being underfunded

I WANT MY MONEY BACK DAMN IT!

I GUARANTEE, the labor class would be HAPPY giving back their “tax breaks” if it meant they would STOP taking the rest of our money and marketing taht theft as “tax cuts”

kassandra, he might not be a troll, he might simply be uninformed and think he might come here and “educate us” or find out why we have our position

there are people who come as troll but wind up finding out the facts instead of talking points

kking might have actually believed it is obama’s tax cuts to the labor class that brought this problem

he happens to be half right, it IS obama’s fault we are faced with this problem, he DID extend bush’s redistribution of middle class assets scheme

it IS obama’s fault, but not for the reason kking thinks it’s obama’s fault

off to work

As for Roopert M. he is nothing but a ruthless capitalist, one who is willing to do and say anything that will make him the almighty $/£. Truth, fairness and integrity mean absolutely nothing to him.

Keith ripped him a new one last night as he used to work for him. It was a thing of beauty. Keith basically said the same thing as you posted above.

Far be it from me to defend Obama, but I DO try to defend the facts. Maybe he’s not a troll, but coming and saying this is all at the door of Obama is ludicrous.

It’s really nice to watch his show now, He doesn’t ave to be all “entertainy” anymore.

I hope he never sells out. It’s his game to lose now.

Well, he hasn’t so far and the pressure must have been intense. It was, in fact, enough to lose him his MSNBC show.
Now, we find out it may have Murdoch fingers behind the takeover, not only Comcast.

The scandal comes at an especially dangerous time for James Murdoch, whose ambition is to make News Corp. more of an infrastructure play and less dependent on content. The company’s effort to buy the 60% of BskyB that it does not own has been put on hold – the company was on the doorstep of winning the right to go ahead with the acquisition.

When I last wrote about the company on June 29, I noted a very similar chart pattern to that of Comcast (CMCSA), the cable operator that bought half of NBC-Universal this year. The pattern remains, save for a gap-down by NWS early on June 6, after U.K. Attorney General Dominic Grieve indicated the BskyB deal could still be blocked.

James Murdoch Tries to Save Satellite Deal and Murdoch Era

In Retreat, Murdoch Drops TV Takeover

Interesting take on Pirate Murdoch as Supreme El Capo Mafia Don.

It does seem as if Murdoch & his various minions may have finally truly really over-stepped their boundaries, and the really BIG PTB have had enough.

It’s one thing to hack into Jerry’s Kids & “regular” citizen’s phone calls, but hacking into the voice mails of the super rich & mega-powerful (which is what I understand they did)… well, that may be just a teensy tinesey too much. Eh – what-o??

Of course, the meer trivial piffling factoid that Murdoch’s nefarious emprire doesn’t pay its fair share of taxes ‘n such is not worth mentioning. Who cares about that? But spying on your other rich ‘n entitled so-called “pals” ‘n “buddies”???? Tsk tsk, Rupie, ya overstepped yer boundaries, ya Aussie lag.

Believe you me, I lived downundah, and if an Aussie lad like Rupert starts really stepping on British toes, they will SWAT him DOWN quick-smart. The Poms ain’t gonna take it from an Aussie hoon; they’re just not. Now here in Team USA??? Remains to be seen… we be more stooopiter in many ways than our cousins across the pond.

so your giveing the Senate,Congress,Bill Clinton and Obama a pass.Honest Bill Clinton did more damage than anyone killing the USA Industry for wallstreets slave wages with NAFTA.No more than any one leader I think that Clinton,Newt and Ted did the most damage with NAFTA.

Interesting. I hear Australia would like to get him on a few things as well.
I saw a clip of Gordon Brown….(he who didn’t last long as PM because he wasn’t a Con) and how Murdoch goons hacked into his families medical records and found out his new baby had cystic fibrous.
Brown nearly lost it at one point and started to cry.
that’s the type of scum these “people” are.
So, I agree, none of the corporations pay taxes, why would that bother US after so long, but to go after the good ol’ boys club just may be too much even for our thugs in office.
The propaganda WILL continue to flow, however. I think we can count on that.

I don’t think anyone here is giving anyone a “PASS”. Except Perris was trying to give YOU one. I see that my original take was correct

There are maybe five people in the US who speak their mind completely. Olbermann isn’t one of them. He may not be a sell-out, but he is far from independent.

I didn’t vote for Ross Perot, but he was dead right about the giant sucking sound. He called NAFTA dead right while the media laughed at him. So amusing and quaint they pretended. Clinton is as guilty as any of them.

I don’t think anyone here disputes that nor the damage Obama did in giving away the TRAP $$$ with no strings attached. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the Right has pushed the left to the right so far that men who want power better do their bidding.
We’re seeing it now with this manufactured deficit “crisis”…where only the vulnerable will wind up suffering which is exactly the way they want it. all the “raising tax revenues” was a good floor show, but was dropped quick-fast

I rarely disagree with anything you write, nor really disagreeing now. I would just add that the left was eaten away from the insides as much as it was pushed from the right. The litmus tests that politicians have to pass mean that except for a few district only whores get to run. Only someone without principles can pass the litmus tests.

Who would that five people be? He is much more unrestrained now that he is on current. I am willing to give him a chance. There aren’t too many people on TV that speak the truth anymore.

Money talks in Amerika. If you don’t have $$$ you may as well shut up and now they’ve taken all the “lesser” people’s money, they expect us to shut up. so very many have.
But these day as I go about town, I hear the natives getting restless lie I’ve never heard before. It just depends on who they blame.
Obama really missed his chance to make hay off the republicans, if indeed he wanted to at all, by throwing Social Security on the table. Even the clerks at Costco were talking about it this morning.
And then, there’s Mcconnell saying on the floor of the senate that elections don’t work.
Interesting times, my friend.

Yeah,. it’s not like he’s going to out and out say Bush allowed 911 to happen. They’d probably come get him right on the set
By the way Hartmann was on a jag about the monarchy of the Supreme Court this morning, pretty spot on.

no, I don’t give either the senate or clinton a pass, however whoever was party to redistributing tax burden so that the labor class actually paid even more then before deserves most of the blame

clinton allowed the rediculous “free trade” deal and also signed repeal of important regulations that would have prevented the fall of our economy had they still been in place

no, there is no pass, however their is expontially higher weighted responsibility and of course that goes to reagan and bush

True I think Keith will take it to what he feels he can get away with. He is really ripping some new asses this week. He has been bold and tells it like he sees it. As far as the SC is concerned I think they are bought and paid for. Hopefully all this corporate takeover will come crumbling down some day. I hope newscorp is the first. Keith is really covering this really well.