Suspicious Funding from a Saudi Prince: FOX Shareholder Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal’s Alleged Ties to

[babsbunny]

Suspicious Funding from a Saudi Prince: FOX Shareholder Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal’s Alleged Ties to Terrorism

http://blog.buzzflash.com/alerts/792

BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Jeffrey Joseph

Conventional political wisdom says that conservatives benefit politically from making national security a vital issue. Implied is the notion that though everyone suffers from terrorism, conservatives can gain from it, at least on the political stage. While that would be an abominable approach to encourage, the growing stake of Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal in News Corporation, the parent company of FOX News, suggests FOX benefits more directly from a man with a questionable background, raising the ire even of fellow conservatives.

Al-Waleed has long held some portion of the News Corp. stock, but as he has risen to the fourth-highest shareholder in the company, criticism for his involvement with the company has grown. Joseph Trento reports that while Al-Waleed regularly defends his home nation as pristine, interviewers tend to ignore the large donations to the families of suicide bombers he reportedly makes. Generally, organizations or governments pay the families of suicide bombers as a kind of reward for the actions of their deceased relatives. As such, Al-Waleed's donations would, in effect, count as supporting terrorism, a particularly onerous recognition for the "fair and balanced" news source. Somehow, Glenn Beck managed to miss connecting those dots on his chalkboard.

[Old and In the Way]

1. Surprised KO doesn't focus on this aspect of NewsCorp's investments

I think Kingdom Holdings has a sizable chunk of CNN stock, too. It amazes me that the Foxbots can't understand that this guy helps to define the Fox news perspective on the ME. Wouldn't surprise me if this guy had connections to the 9/11 terrorists...there was a lot of royal money that never got properly traced to the hijackers.

[Hannah Bell]

2. fox is owned by islamic fundamentalists! do the foxbots know?

[BR_Parkway]

4. They'd make it into some liberal plot

[20Jan1961]

3. Just another example of why we need to do something about the Citizens United ruling

Foreign corporations can now spend unlimited amounts of money in our elections... Here's a really good video that has gotten me up to fight this ItsOurDemocracy.com Corporations are not people!

[condoleeza]

5. Follow this link from w/in your link - very interesting

http://dcbureau.org/20100203319/Trento-s-Take/trentos-take-fox-news-cant-upset-murdochs-saudi-prince.html