This is getting very interesting, indeed.

I imagine to most FOX “News” fans that Murdoch hacking into 9/11victims and families’ phones will be the fault of the victims and families, but it looks like Murdoch is going to be like a chicken on a hot plate for some time to come.

O’Beckerhead may end up thanking Roger for firing him.

Pete Williams on CNBC just said that it was ceremonial.

HAHAHAHA libs.

BOO YAH!

TICK
TICK
TICK
TICK

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Oooopsss….

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
This is getting very interesting, indeed.

I imagine to most FOX “News” fans that Murdoch hacking into 9/11victims and families’ phones will be the fault of the victims and families, but it looks like Murdoch is going to be like a chicken on a hot plate for some time to come.

Actually, they’ll blame it on Obama. Everything bad is his fault, remember?

Tisst shows how desperate the obummer administration really is. I love it! Bring it on, halfer!

This just shows..

BoomShakalaka says:

Thanks haggy!

WCinWI said:
Pete Williams on CNBC just said that it was ceremonial.

HAHAHAHA libs.

So, you believe it was right and proper for Murdoch and NewsCorp to hack the phones of 9/11 victims and families?

Jaurez said:
Tisst shows how desperate the obummer administration really is. I love it! Bring it on, halfer!

Who’s Tisst?

Jaurez said:
This just shows..

What shows what?

EmailEveryone said:
Is it just me or are the same people here everyday making pointless comments?

Yes, and I’ve asked Jeff to stop.

I’m very worried that this culture of corruption that exists within NewsCorp has infected Fox News or the New York Post. One must ask themselves why would these seedy, heinous journalistic standards merely exist within NewsCorp on the other side of the pond? Fox has been very aggressive attempting to engineer a scandal since Obama rose to power in 2008. Did Ailes advise or allow any subordinates to break laws while pushing the Bill Ayers, birth certificate, or Common the rapper stories? These are very open, unanswered questions. I hope that Fox News was able to temper their desires to demonize Obama and promote the Republican party by acting responsibly in their journalism. I hope that the FBI fully lifts the hood on Murdoch’s empire. Where there is smoke there is fire. And there just may be a lot more fire that we don’t know about.

WCinWI said:
Pete Williams on CNBC just said that it was ceremonial.

HAHAHAHA libs.

And you believe the Communist News Brainwashing Center? lololol you might as well just start trusting wikipedia or scientists or empirical evidence, silly rabbit.

willpee, you said the same idiotic thing, yesterday, it’s still stupid.

WillP said:
I’m very worried that this culture of corruption that exists within NewsCorp has infected Fox News or the New York Post. One must ask themselves why would these seedy, heinous journalistic standards merely exist within NewsCorp on the other side of the pond? Fox has been very aggressive attempting to engineer a scandal since Obama rose to power in 2008. Did Ailes advise or allow any subordinates to break laws while pushing the Bill Ayers, birth certificate, or Common the rapper stories? These are very open, unanswered questions. I hope that Fox News was able to temper their desires to demonize Obama and promote the Republican party by acting responsibly in their journalism. I hope that the FBI fully lifts the hood on Murdoch’s empire. Where there is smoke there is fire. And there just may be a lot more fire that we don’t know about.

A very well-reasoned piece. Thank you.

Pubic219 said:
you might as well just start trusting wikipedia or scientists

I wouldn’t go that far, socky.

THE FAKE ROYAL KING said:
A very well-reasoned piece. Thank you.

You’ve got some white stuff on your chin…wipe it off.

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
So, you believe it was right and proper for Murdoch and NewsCorp to hack the phones of 9/11 victims and families?

If Murdoch did anything, so did Wikileaks. So do you have that same outrage?

Jaurez said:
willpee, you said the same idiotic thing, yesterday, it’s still stupid.

Not at all a well-reasoned piece. Ask Mediaite to delete it.

Publius219 said:
And you believe the Communist News Brainwashing Center? lololol you might as well just start trusting wikipedia or scientists or empirical evidence, silly rabbit.

I actually don’t have an overall problem with CNBC. It’s MSNBC and CNN that are the failures.

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
This is getting very interesting, indeed.

I imagine to most FOX “News” fans that Murdoch hacking into 9/11victims and families’ phones will be the fault of the victims and families, but it looks like Murdoch is going to be like a chicken on a hot plate for some time to come.

Nope, I’m disgusted by it. It’s you vile liberal pukes who react to WHO did something as opposed to what they did. What I find strange is the fact that most vile liberal pukes have high hopes that this DID happen just because of who did it. Are you honest enough to admit that I’m right?

WCinWI said:
If Murdoch did anything, so did Wikileaks. So do you have that same outrage?

I’m outraged in both instances, but the outrage is somewhat different in kind if not intensity. Too many ignorant, deluded souls believe Murdoch’s every phart is Chanel No. 5. Perhaps, No. 22.

Dave Splash said:
Actually, they’ll blame it on Obama. Everything bad is his fault, remember?

Your kidding! Right? Did you just say that with a straight face?

BR said:
Nope, I’m disgusted by it. It’s you vile liberal pukes who react to WHO did something as opposed to what they did. What I find strange is the fact that most vile liberal pukes have high hopes that this DID happen just because of who did it. Are you honest enough to admit that I’m right?

I’m not at all sure what you said, frankly, but I will admit to a certain fascination with the Danse Macabre I might not otherwise have.

My sister is a Republican and watches nothing but Fox. She asked me this morning “who’s this Ruport Murdoch guy I keep hearing about out on all the other “news” channels? for real

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
I’m outraged in both instances, but the outrage is somewhat different in kind if not intensity. Too many ignorant, deluded souls believe Murdoch’s every phart is Chanel No. 5. Perhaps, No. 22.

So then you have outrage at a liberal. Good to know.

THE FAKE ROYAL KING said:
Too many ignorant, deluded souls believe Murdoch’s every phart is Chanel No. 5. Perhaps, No. 22.

What kind of a “man” would write something like that? EEEWWWW!

“glenn”113 said:
My sister is a Republican and watches nothing but Fox. She asked me this morning “who’s this Ruport Murdoch guy I keep hearing about out on all the other “news” channels? for real

Make shit up much?

Before the blame and finger pointing start, it might matter to know that the FBI investigation is in response to a letter from conservative Republican Peter King. There goes today’s pass the blame chorus.

See the person that represents New York in Congress asked for an investigation into a possible federal crime against his constituents. And for today’s serving of irony sauce on this goose,King is a regular and a favorite over at Fox, yet ge called in the Feds on them.

I do so love the taste of irony!

WCinWI said:
So then you have outrage at a liberal. Good to know.

Dearest, I don’t go prostrate before every liberal. Couldn’t stomach Grayson or Weiner. Don’t much care for Schumer. Not a fan of Ed Schultz. Had a very tough time voting for Kerry. I’m not given to Goose-Stepping Down the Straße like so many of your little buddies do.

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
Dearest, I don’t go prostrate before every liberal. Couldn’t stomach Grayson or Weiner. Don’t much care for Schumer. Not a fan of Ed Schultz. Had a very tough time voting for Kerry. I’m not given to Goose-Stepping Down the Straße like so many of your little buddies do.

Please don’t speak German. You give them a bad name.

Whoever was involved in this should be punished, just like whoever knew about and condoned operation Fast and Furious should be. If Murdoch, as head of his organization is held responsible, then Obama needs to be help responsible for what his minions do.

WCinWI said:
Please don’t speak German. You give them a bad name.

Macht nichts. Mein Deutsch ist dialektisch. Bayerische.

THE FAKE ROYAL KING said:
Dearest, I don’t go prostrate before every liberal. Couldn’t stomach Grayson or Weiner. Don’t much care for Schumer. Not a fan of Ed Schultz. Had a very tough time voting for Kerry. I’m not given to Goose-Stepping Down the Straße like so many of your little buddies do.

You forgot to say you “don’t like” olbermann. LOL!

Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
Whoever was involved in this should be punished, just like whoever knew about and condoned operation Fast and Furious should be. If Murdoch, as head of his organization is held responsible, then Obama needs to be help responsible for what his minions do.

You need to throw in the NBPP, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Dr. William Ayers, the Long Form Birth Certificate Conspirators and the Mexicans who invaded Webb County, Texas, too, Michelle-in-Utah.

Jaurez said:
THE FAKE ROYAL KING said:
Dearest, I don’t go prostrate before every liberal. Couldn’t stomach Grayson or Weiner. Don’t much care for Schumer. Not a fan of Ed Schultz. Had a very tough time voting for Kerry. I’m not given to Goose-Stepping Down the Straße like so many of your little buddies do.

You forgot to say you “don’t like” olbermann. LOL!

Have you ever heard of “enumeration, but not limitation” Jeff?

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
Macht nichts. Mein Deutsch ist dialektisch. Bayerische.

Deiner (oder deinen, ich weiss es nichts) ist nicht wilkommen.

Oder bist du. Geh weg. Schnell.

THE FAKE ROYAL KING said:
Have you ever heard of “enumeration, but not limitation”

Olbyloon diversion #4,459.

The evil taskmaster of Fox News is getting squeezed by the FBI? Are the Kiddies at the Koldys Klub crapping their pants Jeffy?

Fukker News says:

Thanks patsy!

Are any “liberals” here at least going to wait for the FBI to finish their investigation?
Or like the false story about NewsCorp not paying their taxes, will the emotional and irrational four legged animal we call “liberal” jump to the wrong conclusion without any facts to back it up yet again?

Silly question. Of course they will.

WCinWI said:
Please don’t speak German. You give them a bad name.

I left you some Wisconsin polls numbers to respond to on another thread.

Easy comrades, all ya got so far is an un-named AP source that says the FBI is “looking into” opening an investigation. Don’t get your Castro stained shorts in a knot just yet.

Hey guys, we got a protest going on at Murdoch’s house:

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/14/269798/photos-protesters-rally-murdoch/

Jaurez said:
What kind of a “man” would write something like that? EEEWWWW!

The same kind of man who calls the president “halfer”?

Fokker News said:
Hey guys, we got a protest going on at Murdoch’s house: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/14/269798/photos-protesters-rally-murdoch/

Jesus you people are such losers. Can’t any of you get a freakin job? Always hanging out in somebody elses yard annoying the shit out of people. Get a frickin’ life already.

kvon said:
The same kind of man who calls the president “halfer”?

I always liked “Halfrican-American, too funny.

I wasn’t happy when I read that a Saudi Prince had a small interest in News Corp, either. Until this investigation is resolved, I hope Roger Ailes can somehow get temporary ‘custody’ of Fox News. If Fox News goes off the air, Americans will have no legit news channels.

newzmaker said:
I wasn’t happy when I read that a Saudi Prince had a small interest in News Corp, either. Until this investigation is resolved, I hope Roger Ailes can somehow get temporary ‘custody’ of Fox News. If Fox News goes off the air, Americans will have no legit news channels.

Fox News ain’t going anywhere. It’s an election year, expect this and tons more from the communists.

glenn113 said:
My sister is a Republican and watches nothing but Fox. She asked me this morning “who’s this Ruport Murdoch guy I keep hearing about out on all the other “news” channels? for real

Yeh……sure she did………..

And I know someone who knows someone who said………..for real!

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

Description of Adolf Hitler in a wartime report prepared by the US Govt.

OHHHH NOOOOOO!!!! I go traveling for a couple months and I come back and the whole Right is in SHAMBLES!!

What are you Righty Mental Midgets going to do without your Brainwash Machine Fox ‘News’?
The toilet that is Fox ‘News’ is flushing and the Republican congress is getting exposed for the corporate whores and TeaBagger Cult members they truly are!

This is so funny and I’m enjoying this so much I can’t even begin to describe it to you Righty Idiots.

I see that WCinWI/Jaurez is still here posting as one person. How’s Hillbilly Palin doing? Are you working for her campaign? How’s Wisconsin doing?

The Right are Truly Cowards!! HAHAHAAHAHH!!!!

emberglance said:
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. Description of Adolf Hitler in a wartime report prepared by the US Govt.

so damn true.

So, what is the substance of the AP report?

“A law enforcement official says the FBI has opened an investigation into allegations media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims.

The official spoke Thursday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly….

The decision to investigate was made after U.S. Rep. Peter King and several other members of Congress wrote FBI Director Robert Mueller demanding an investigation, said the official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly….

The official stressed that the probe was in its infancy but declined to discuss the scope of it or say whether any investigative steps had been taken…. ”

Will the FBI now investigate unauthorized leaking at its own agency?

And will the FBI investigate Operation Fast and Furious, or maybe there ought to be a special prosecutor, since the attorney general may be involved?

BR said:
Yeh……sure she did……….. And I know someone who knows someone who said………..for real!

Glenn gets a nickel a post

Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
Whoever was involved in this should be punished, just like whoever knew about and condoned operation Fast and Furious should be. If Murdoch, as head of his organization is held responsible, then Obama needs to be help responsible for what his minions do.

Exactly right. If Rupert Murdoch is criminally responsible for something that happened at the NOTW, which was part of News Group Newspapers, which is a branch of News International Ltd., which is a division of NewsCorp… then Barack Obama is criminally liable for the actions of a GS-9 at an BATFE office in Phoenix.

emberglance said:
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. Description of Adolf Hitler in a wartime report prepared by the US Govt.

So that’s where the Dems got there playbook, I knew it sounded familiar!

Fokker News said:
Hey guys, we got a protest going on at Murdoch’s house

You and your tapeworm?

newzmaker said:
I wasn’t happy when I read that a Saudi Prince had a small interest in News Corp, either. Until this investigation is resolved, I hope Roger Ailes can somehow get temporary ‘custody’ of Fox News. If Fox News goes off the air, Americans will have no legit news channels.

Since it is a publicly-traded company, anyone from anywhere in the world can buy shares if he has the cash.

Lets see. On O’Reilly, Hannity and Greta’s channel tonight: extra double coverage of the Casey Anthony trial and new revelations about the jury. And extra special coverage on the Roger Clemens mistrial. Don’t miss it!

http://doninmass.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/jones.jpg d’oh

glenn113 said:
My sister is a Republican and watches nothing but Fox. She asked me this morning “who’s this Ruport Murdoch guy I keep hearing about out on all the other “news” channels? for real

I’m really afraid to believe that’s true. But, sadly I don’t have serious doubts. The greatest press scandal of our lifetimes is going largely unnoticed on one of the networks. Fox never has fairly reported the news. As long as it is run by former GOP operatives, it will never change. Very sad.

newzmaker said:
If Fox News goes off the air, Americans will have no legit news channels.

So I guess every other news network which has been doing lots of reporting over the greatest press scandal of our lifetimes are illegitimate for doing so? That would be the case by your rationale.

Fokker News said:
I left you some Wisconsin polls numbers to respond to on another thread.

Hey Keith – I don’t live and die by polls. Thanks for proving how irrelevant you are.

this story has you dumbasses really reaching for something to say….comparing news corp to wikileaks and shit……NOW THATS A SCRETCH….BREAKING NEWS:…Somebodies going to jail….i guess you FOX watchers will have to settle for watching your radios….FOX has been currupt for years…..catering to you uneducated crossburning racist morons that are to dumb to know your asses from a hole in the ground….Eric Holder is gonna make Murdock real sorry that he sent the Hounds ot FIXED NOISE after him

timzank said:
Fox News ain’t going anywhere. It’s an election year, expect this and tons more from the communists.

Yep, them damn communist FBI guys.

This story is getting bigger by the day the Empire is crumbling.

ProObamaAgenda said:
this story has you dumbasses really reaching for something to say….comparing news corp to wikileaks and shit……NOW THATS A SCRETCH….BREAKING NEWS:…Somebodies going to jail….i guess you FOX watchers will have to settle for watching your radios….FOX has been currupt for years…..catering to you uneducated crossburning racist morons that are to dumb to know your asses from a hole in the ground….Eric Holder is gonna make Murdock real sorry that he sent the Hounds ot FIXED NOISE after him

uhmmmm Eric Holder? lol

I am sure Bill O’Reilly will speak out with disgust about the antics of Murdoch.

Rokker said:
I am sure Bill O’Reilly will speak out with disgust about the antics of Murdoch.

If all I watched was Fox I wouldn’t even know who Rupert Murdoch was. lol

What happened to all the trolls?

When we paranoiac types talk about the tiny number of people who run the world, Murdoch is in the top echelon of these megalomaniacs who have done so much to divide and confuse us. In Britain, where he had enough power to intimidate nearly the entire population, once his power was broken, he suddely has zero friends except for family and his top business associates. He hacked into thousands of people private lives, and, who knows yet, whether he was able to do that here. Murdoch’s power in this country has not been nearly as great, but this episode has been a wake up call for all Americans. There is nothing redeeming about most of Murdoch’s media operations here except, and, maybe, except for the Wall Street Journal. The damage and insult that he’s done in this country can best be summed up by Glenn Beck, who, if you haven’t noticed has almost disappeared from sight, and it doesn’t look like his Blaze media venture will have a long life either. Beck is a dangerous psychopath who Murdoch harnessed inorder to pander to the lowest common denominator with great success until Beck’s craziness began driving away national advertisers who did not want to be associated with the unstable Beck ‘image’. One can only hope that with the wounding of Murdoch, we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recently resurgent rightwing power.

J Baustian said:
Exactly right. If Rupert Murdoch is criminally responsible for something that happened at the NOTW, which was part of News Group Newspapers, which is a branch of News International Ltd., which is a division of NewsCorp… then Barack Obama is criminally liable for the actions of a GS-9 at an BATFE office in Phoenix.

I guess after I posted this, there really wasn’t anything more that needed to be said.

J Baustian said:
J Baustian said:
Exactly right. If Rupert Murdoch is criminally responsible for something that happened at the NOTW, which was part of News Group Newspapers, which is a branch of News International Ltd., which is a division of NewsCorp… then Barack Obama is criminally liable for the actions of a GS-9 at an BATFE office in Phoenix.
I guess after I posted this, there really wasn’t anything more that needed to be said.

Six figure pay-offs do not originate from reporters.
THINK before you post.

luckyirishgoddess said:
Six figure pay-offs do not originate from reporters.
THINK before you post.

1) Crimes were committed in the period 2002-2006 (might have started earlier, not sure)
2) NOTW employees were arrested and jailed in 2006 and 2007.
3) People whose voicemails were hacked were compensated.

All of this was public knowledge. The press association knew it, and the Metropolitan Police knew it.

It was believed that all the guilty parties had been fired and arrested.

In January of 2011, James Murdoch or someone acting on his behalf gave evidence to the Metropolitan Police, showing that other people at NOTW were involved. Murdoch blew the whistle on his own newspaper.

Nobody was pretending that the voicemail hacking had not occurred. No one was hiding the fact that victims were being compensated.

ganymede said:
When we paranoiac types talk about the tiny number of people who run the world, Murdoch is in the top echelon of these megalomaniacs who have done so much to divide and confuse us. In Britain, where he had enough power to intimidate nearly the entire population, once his power was broken, he suddely has zero friends except for family and his top business associates. He hacked into thousands of people private lives, and, who knows yet, whether he was able to do that here. Murdoch’s power in this country has not been nearly as great, but this episode has been a wake up call for all Americans. There is nothing redeeming about most of Murdoch’s media operations here except, and, maybe, except for the Wall Street Journal. The damage and insult that he’s done in this country can best be summed up by Glenn Beck, who, if you haven’t noticed has almost disappeared from sight, and it doesn’t look like his Blaze media venture will have a long life either. Beck is a dangerous psychopath who Murdoch harnessed inorder to pander to the lowest common denominator with great success until Beck’s craziness began driving away national advertisers who did not want to be associated with the unstable Beck ‘image’. One can only hope that with the wounding of Murdoch, we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recently resurgent rightwing power.

Very good post. I’d be interested to know Beck’s true reaction to the mess at Newscorp. In my opinion, he is a very vain and presumptuous man. He probably has some type of narcissistic personality disorder given how highly he views his capabilities (restoring courage to the country of Israel, etc.) So I’m sure Beck was furious for being fired by Fox. Is there some serious schadenfreude pouring out from him right over the fate of Murdoch’s empire? Probably so even if he doesn’t express so on air.

EmailEveryone said:
Is it just me or are the same people here everyday making pointless comments?

You are the one posting your insane conspiracy theories. I think the 14 thumbs up proves that many do not actually pay attention to the poster’s name.

Is Barack Obama from Mars?

To address the point, I guess someone should actually wait for the investigation to begin before you convict………..right lefties?

Or am I wrong?

Let us see by thumbs up and thumbs down, do people have the right to be investigated, charged and convicted in a court of law? If not, you are what you accuse other of. Let the voting commence!

PR measures in effect at FNC…and rightly so, I might add. IN SOP the media is over reacting, and over reporting on the tabloid hacking that went on in GB. Stillnothing on the latest cyber attack on the Pentagon….or truely, not much on gun runner/fast and furious.

We know the media HATES FNC with a passion because it is the only network that provides a different perspective, doesn’t belong to the group think/liberal mindmeld practiced at the other “news” organs, and so they are reporting and reporting and reporting on this, while ignoring anything big and bad associated with HE HIMSELF, the manchild idiot in chief.

CNN still not reporting on Peirs potential involvement in the story, but is pointing fingers at Fox. Funny that. how about a headline story on Piers involvement and how CNN is ignoring the elephant in the room?

What did he know, and when did he know it?