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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 09:09 PM
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All Your Murdochs Am Belonging To Us: Author says Rupert "has come to like liberals"


The author of a new book about media mogul Rupert Murdoch, which asserts that the owner of Fox News "absolutely despises" top-rated host Bill O'Reilly, believes that Murdoch's negative feelings about Fox go far beyond a personal distaste for O'Reilly's bullying.

Michael Wolff, author of The Man Who Owns the News, told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Tuesday, "I would mention ... Bill O'Reilly and he would get this look which was like revulsion." Wolff added that "I started to see this around all of Murdoch's people. ... No one says, 'O'Reilly, we hate him' ... but everybody goes into a contortion."

According to Wolff, however, the real issue is that Murdoch has "come to like the liberals more than the conservatives -- and many of them have come to like him, too. ... His life is now largely spent around people for whom Fox News is a vulgarity and a joke."

"If he became utterly convinced," asked Olberman, "not only would a liberal network make you five times the money that Fox News makes you, but one will exist and it will put Fox News out of business, would he go down the street tomorrow, shut off Fox News, and put on a liberal version of it just for the money?"

"In a New York minute," Wolff replied.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Author_Many_Fox_employees_repulsed_by_1203.html
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Veritas_et_Aequitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 09:30 PM
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1. Murdoch loves money. That is all.
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 11:08 PM
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4. "In a New York minute," Wolff replied.
That's it, in a nutshell. With President Obama in the White House, Fox "News" is in the toilet. Murdoch brings a brand-new meaning to the word "transparent."
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 09:50 PM
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2. a younger liberal wife will do that to you I guess n/t
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 10:59 PM
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3. Gee, has Rupert discovered that Republicans fuck up the economy, and thus...
fucked up his investments (where ever they are)?
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ACTION BASTARD Donating Member (765 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-08 11:51 PM
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5. This is the same jackass that owns the NY Post, right?
Not buying the bullshit that Wolff is selling.
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