Rupert Murdoch recently gave an interview to Sky News Australia about Fox News Noise. During the interview, he was asked if he agreed with Glenn Beck that the President is a racist. After some qualifying, obfuscating, and dithering, he finally said that he agreed with Beck. Have a look:
During the same interview, he was also asked if he agreed with his network's comparison of the President to Joseph Stalin. He denied that anyone at Fox has ever said that. He needs to watch his own programs:
Trying to do damage control, Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch's spokesman tried an unconvincing denial saying, "He does not at all, for a minute, think the president is a racist."
I don't know about you, but Australian English is not that different from American English. I know what I heard.
During the same interview, he was also asked if he agreed with his network's comparison of the President to Joseph Stalin. He denied that anyone at Fox has ever said that. He needs to watch his own programs:
Trying to do damage control, Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch's spokesman tried an unconvincing denial saying, "He does not at all, for a minute, think the president is a racist."
I don't know about you, but Australian English is not that different from American English. I know what I heard.
this is what happens when you program the foaming at the mouth zombies and lose control of them when they devour you. murdoch has been having his cake and eating it too for a long while, and the chickens are coming home to roost. he can no longer control beck, hannity, or any of them because they are all too well known apart from faux. the tea party just filed in florida as a third party, think about it, back in april fox "hosted" the rally's with their evening "opinion" people and got away with having their "news" people covering the events as spontaneous news happenings. the july 4th rally's found these same opinion people off work and as far as i could tell, not publicly attending the tea parties which were considerably small and had zero fox promo time. i watched fox on july 4th and they covered the re-opening of the remodeled statue of liberty, with only a passing mention later in the evening as a 30 second update. beck started planning the 912 event in the spring, yet the july 4th tea party went uncovered, eclipsed by palin's abrupt resignation the day before. so the saturday, july 4th "breaking fox alerts" were all about palin quitting, which was dumped to the media friday aftertoon. i thought at the time murdoch wanted to put some distance between fox and the movement. the 912 was well attended but nothing to write home about for fox news. but for beck, a different story. now ailes says he wants to run for president? murdoch is in a curious position, his legitimacy which was always questionable is now coming unraveled. you've got the beauty queen who was flown up the flag for being wholesome with paid-for fake boobs and now a sex tape. you've got the white house publicly calling them out, which i thought was a mistake, but nonetheless ups the ante. murdoch has the WSJ in his pocket and they're no longer viewed as credible. fox business channel where it's getting more difficult each day to even appear credible. what he has going for him are the sports channels and movie channels like FX. i see some major shake ups, perhaps a show for palin that's been in the works. the red eye was supposed to compete with late night comedy and has flopped beyond belief. i think murdoch is spinning right now, treading until the mid term elections get a bit closer, hedging his bets until he thinks he can pick a winner. and to him a winner is money. should for any reason the mid terms swing blue, fox could just as easily make a "fair & balanced" turn while rushbo starts up his own tea party cable news station.