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But of course, get ready for this argument to make it across the ocean even faster than the next resignation and/or arrest of a Murdoch employee.
Telegraph columnist Janet Daly opines that the left is just going after Murdoch to make conservatives shut up.
The Left does not want a debate or an open market in ideas. It wants to extirpate its opponents – to remove them from the field. It actually seems to believe that it is justified in snuffing out any possibility of our arguments reaching the impressionable masses
Yes, that must be why people are being arrested at a rapid pace in the UK — because otherwise it would be perfectly legitimate to hack phones, blackmail victims, and bribe the police, to say otherwise is liberal whining. Oh, we liberals refusing to live in a Hobbesian Paradise!
I guess that works better than the last FoxNews strategy on dealing with the issue in June.
And that, as they say, was that.
Hobbesian paradises just fine for Fred Hiatt though, no different than the Wall Street Journal, only at least the latter has literally sold everything including its soul to Murdoch already.
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“That’s alright, sir” — the words of a sycophantic “anchor man” sucking up to his corporate master.
He should have been bowing and scraping and saying “guvnor”
Kudos to Attaturk for finding this gem. It should be posted on ALL television stations, blogs, and newspaper websites. It’s incredible.
Shorter Hiatt: The British have perfectly fine laws to deal with crimes committed on American soil by News International employees. Nothing to see here, la la la.
I wish America had a real newspaper like the Manchester Guardian.
Show me someone who badmouths liberals and I’ll show you a degenerate.
I Forget Who Was President 30 Years Ago
ROFL…called it!
How perfectly predictable. In fact, many of us did predict it.
Morning,
I’m sure the goons in our government don’t tap us, yuk, yuk, yuk.
Good morning, pups. It’s The Pasty Little Putz and Krugman today. The Pasty Little Putz haz a sad. In “The Republican Retreat” he moans about the inability of the Republicans to make even symbolic concessions that has turned a winning hand into a losing one. I guess even The Putz underestimated the crazy in his party. Prof. Krugman, in “Letting Bankers Walk,” says the two principal arguments being made for letting the banks off easy don’t make much sense.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and the biscuits are out of the oven. I’m off to water the garden because our respite of rain is over. And to get tea. The day just does not start without tea. Have a great day.
*sigh* It won’t be long before the conservative trolls start entering search terms like Murdoch, bribery, hacking, News of the World and etc. and then showing up in droves to defend big daddy Rupert.
After years, decades even of stoking teh rightwing crazee and demanding no retreat, suddenly Douchehat is lamenting that they won’t even make symbolic concessions? Another librul plot no doubt.
It’s just schadenfreudelicious watching Bobo and The Putz squirm. Buyer’s remorse can be SUCH a bitch…
BUILDER’S remorse more like with those two.
Is that what you call a “toady?”
What Margaret said. No prizes to me for calling this one several days ago, and I believe I said something about rightwingers bending themselves into new pretzel shapes to defend Murdoch or blame it on dirty libruls about 2 posts downstairs…
The only surprising thing would be if conservatives took their lumps/medicine and STFU, but I won’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen. Since Ford pardoned Nixon, it’s been open season for conservatives to get away with murder… and the serfs’ had better fall in line and be *happy* about it.
I’m surprised the old “criminalizing politics” crap hasn’t shown up yet. That’s a favorite winger trope on the too-rare occasion that one of their leaders *might* actually be held responsible for their crimes.
YES! that “Vast Left Wing Conspiracy” strikes again!
Well, now they have their talking points. That mus t be why they took so long to start covering the story; Heritage had to think up something for them to say ;^}
Jane is amazing! She is on C-SPAN Radio right now (90.1 FM in DC) urging callers to visit their member of Congress tomorrow to demand no cuts to Social Security or Medicare. Awesome job explaining to average voters, including several Republican callers in the past 20 minutes, that the debt ceiling hysteria is purely a political stunt to frighten folks dependent on Social Security. Jane’s empathy comes pouring over the airwaves for those scared by threats to their monthly benefit checks.
“It actually seems to believe that it is justified in snuffing out any possibility of our arguments reaching the impressionable masses”
The man owns FOX friggin’ News! I’m sure if he wanted to he could make some sort of comment on some sycophant’s crappy opinion show.
We know that the FACTS have a liberal bias, now it is laws too?
Krugman is not upset about the “level” of the proposed settlement ($30 billion – fine?), but is up set that principal reduction of underwater loans to somewhere near market for those with an income that could support repayment is not being done or required in the settlement. I guess “level” is fine plus forced writedowns so perhaps he is upset with the $30 billion.
HAMP under Obama is a Move-On talking point for re-electing Obama -not so much for Paul.
Oh, alright, I’ll come clean — it was me, bluewombat. I whispered in Rupert Murdoch’s ear, “Hack to your heart’s content, you power-crazed reactionary weenie!” And he said, “Why thanks, wombat, I will.” So I put him up to it. But if he hadn’t listened to me, nothing would have happened and he’d still be the king of the world.
It’s STILL a bad decision on his part – to listen to you… ; )
Yes, it’s true. Thank God you didn’t tell him that in advance, though: look at all the good clean fun we would have missed.