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Rupert Murdoch, last heard from calling both Chris Christie and Jewish publishers traitors almost simultaneously must think a lot of his legal troubles from the phone-hacking scandal behind him. After all, he has started buying things again — hoping to match the unqualified success of MySpace.
But recent events have reawakened that old issue:
[bribery] charges brought against Rebekah Brooks, who ran Murdoch’s newspaper holdings in Britain, Andy Coulson, former editor of the now defunct News of the World, and two other former News International employees exposes the parent News Corporation to possible action under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The FCPA exists to prosecute US-domiciled companies for acts of bribery and corruption that they might commit abroad.
Yeah, I’ll pretend that might happen the same way I’ll pretend Rupert did not become an American citizen for the sole purpose of ruining American journalism.
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And the same way we can pretend the News Corpse might lose their FCC licenses for their criminal activities.
I like to pretend. So does the FCC.
When Murdoch purchased the Chicago Sun Times it’s most popular columnist at that time, Mike Royko, left the paper for the rival Chicago Tribune. Royko said that when Murdoch finished with the Sun Times it wouldn’t be worth wrapping dead fish in. It’s only gotten worse but on a much larger scale.
Dean Chambers of Unskewed polls is back, claiming that Obama stole the election through voter fraud because freedom or something I guess. Nothing like destroying your credibility by saying crazy shit and then trying to regain it by being even more crazy. I’m sure Rupert Murdoch will hire him any day as his answer to Nate Silver.
No doubt Murdoch prefers our system of buying politicians to make laws that make you not a criminal any more.
Actually, he did make polls into the total joke they’ve become under some organizations, and no longer can our pundits seriously cite the lying ones as proof of anything at all.
Good morning, pups. Today we’ve got Dowd and Friedman. Oh, Gawd… MoDo has decided to do a column on Little Petraeus… In “Turning Brass Into Gold” she hisses about the alchemy of turning brass to gold: How three women used two generals to advance their own agendas. Yes, of course it’s the women’s fault. What a harpy she is… The Moustache of Wisdom is all fizzy and excited. In “Obama’s Moment” he squeals that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo is running faster than ever these days. If only the rest of the country would take note.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got blueberry pancakes for breakfast. I took today off to “red up” the house. I’m not sure how that Pennsylvania Dutch expression found its way into my mother’s repertoire, but it did. Sweeping the porch won’t be much fun — we’ve got cold, raw, damp weather. This is the weather we used to get in February, and it comes earlier every year now. But of course climate change is a fantasy, and Al Gore is fat. Have a great day.
Oh, but cite them they will nonetheless. How else could you handicap the horse race? Anything to keep them from having to write about, you know, icky ISSUES and stuff…
The only thing protecting Rupert is his advanced age. The way our DoJ works for anything that doesn’t embarrass ObamaLLP is similar to wood petrifying, but not as decorative. By the time they get around to noticing that a major political contributor has committed a felony, the SoL has expired.
Boxturtle (yes, I know his money goes to the GOP. But Obama likes his bipartisanship)
Royko was a wise man. I miss him and his columns.
Boxturtle (he was 100% right in this case)
Do not forget, for women sex is all about the goodies. We’re all whores, IOW.
The fellas do it for love.
The house needs cleaned, another PA dutchy expression I love.
The late discredited Gallup makes a quaint intro, can’t wait to see who uses it.
That’s pretty screwy since Rupert is a total wingnut.
Wow. I guess if you’re going to go wingnut, go all the way. The voter authorities in those states are all GOP. He thinks the Dems pulled a fast one in OHIO?!? Collectively, the Ohio democrat party has trouble remembering to change the oil. And the GOP owns the capitol.
Boxturtle (Mr. Chambers, the legitimate president of the United States is a Black man. BawHAHAHA!)
Societies always seem to blame the woman for the sexual transgressions of men. Like the woman who got herself raped because she dressed too provocatively. Even that adjective places the burden on women. Personally I’ve always said that instead of a woman having to cover up from head to toe because men can’t control themselves, it makes more sense to me to put the mens’ eyes out. Or maybe we can just be rational about it and have the men exercise some SELF CONTROL.
Gotta go to work. (in jeans)
happy EatAllFDay eve. enjoy.
And let’s let them wear shackles, instead. chastity belts, even.
x2. The biases of various poll are well known, that’s why the campaigns buy their own polls. And why Nate was so remarkably accurate. People will still cite the polls that agree with their opinions.
Boxturtle (TurtlePoll predicts Christie will win the GOP primary. How long before I get cited, I wonder?)
Obama likes Obama’s bipartisanship is how I should have phrased it. Never use an ambiguous pronoun.
Rupert is a total wingnut. Obama likes to reach out to the wingnuts and get his hand slapped. Then he does it again.
Boxturtle (Nouns. pronouns. Adverbs. Failed English consistently through 4 grades)
Dean Chambers isn’t content with skewing the pooch just once. He’s back for a second helping.
NO!!! NEVER!!!
Boxturtle (I bet those jeans are nice and tight)
oh.my.god.
Pope Ratzo publishes a ‘bio’ of Jesus in time for the Xmas sales!
‘Pope Benedict reaffirms the importance of the Christian belief in the virgin birth, that Jesus was not conceived through sexual intercourse but through the Holy Spirit.’
and women are all sluts, and can’t have control of their bodies or we’re doooooomed (the postscript)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20424676
laughing to hard to comment.
hope your whistle is nice and melodic, we can use it for Art Saturdays.
My whistle is terrible. My father told me at a very young age that my whistle was worthless for attracting girls and I’d better learn to brush my teeth and smile.
Boxturtle (Amazing how much good advice I got from him that I completely rejected at the time)
What, he didn’t suggest you make a lot of money so you can afford to buy attention? No kind of dad atall.
The Magic Seed is important b/c it differentiates Jesus from a common man sired by a carnal father. (The sire is the bad egg – not the dam.) So the mother IS carnal but approved b/c she has her hymen intact. All the other women around were whores, except for Mary.
Presumably, Newborn Jesus entered the world by squeezing through the bloody aqueduct of his mother’s birth canal like the rest of us.
Just as icky and the Pope can’t take that away.
Since the same Mary had other kids by the fella that married her anyway, so that pure state was just in the beginning, how is it we still pray to her anyway? this takes a lot of pretzeling.
Royko’s exact words: “No self-respecting fish would ever be wrapped in a Murdoch newspaper.”