The right answer is: I just want some cocoa and a biscuit.

In any event, after this performance today, the shareholders are more likely to decide his fate.

Fascinating, isn’t it, everything the Murdochs learned was from other British newspapers, particularly the “Guardian”? Well, maybe not so fascinating. No one learns much from any NewsCorp organs in America, either.

Fascinating, isn’t it, everything the Murdochs learned was from other British newspapers, particularly the “Guardian”? Well, maybe not so fascinating. No one learns much from any NewsCorp organs in America, either.

And herein lies the problem.  I really don’t care whether he resigns or not: he’s 80 years old, so it’s only a matter of time.  However, his inability to accept full and unequivocal responsibility is troubling.  He keeps shifting the blame, saying that his company is too big for him to know everything.  THAT IS A PROBLEM.  It’s still HIS company, and if he can’t manage these affairs and keep track of his employees, then he has failed.

Give me a break. His company is HUGE. Ask Bill Gates or Steve Jobs to know everything that is going on with individuals  in their company and you will get the same answer. They hire managers to manage. In a mega size company that is the way it HAS to work.

Fact: Well I can see it now. The new movie called (Walking Tall UK edition) staring the Murdochs after this libs fiasco ends with egg on their faces.

Does Rebekah Brooks normally wear a hat or something ?

What size would that hat be ?

Of course he is not to blame, I am to blame. 

Notice the picture that Mediaite decided to use?

How infantile Mediaite, where did you get the pic, was it a screenshot you took or was it from another outlet?

Quite sad really.

If i’m a News Corp board member and I keep hearing “I had no idea it was going on”, I”m thinking these people were at least incompetent if not criminal. 

I say hold Murdoch to the same culpability as Obama is held to.

Can we agree on that lefties? Or is it a completely different situation? Is Obama responsible for everyone in his executive branch and their actions? Is Murdoch responsible for everyone in his company and their actions?

Come on, you cannot have it both ways.

WELL, maybe you can, that is the cognitive dissonant symptom you all suffer.

OK, you guys intentionally used that particular screen shot that seems to show Murdoch having Devil’s horns, right?  Very cheeky.

That is such a bizarre coincidence. haha. 

The man runs SEVERAL COMPANIES with 50,000 employees and he’s supposed to resign because one company screwed up? Give me a break! Besides, when was the last time someone in government resigned? In Atlanta the teachers were fixing up tests to get funding from No Child Left Behind, are they gonna resign?
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Why waste your breath with reasonable replies to people who only care about this at all because they want to attack and discredit Fox news by attacking and discrediting Murdoch?

Yeah, I know. *sigh*

I look forward to the replies if for nothing else than a good laugh.

At the risk of repetition, I’ll repeat:

I hate to interrupt this moment of solemnity and sanctimony to point out
that the perpetrator is the British comedian Jonnie Marbles, a
self-proclaimed anarchist (an extreme form of Tea Partyism, it might
seem), and that the custard pie routine, a classic, was a staple in
British children’s telly throughout the 70′s? Not funny. Rude.
Classless. Disruptive, but not political. 

I noticed that too, if they do not answer they are guilty. If they answer they are guilty. I am going to play the Fox news argument here. No matter what they do, GUILTY! LOL

How light are those clothes? Do they like weigh .00000000000000001 grams or something?

Are you thinking of selling them to the defense department as stealth technology?

Rupert is right, he was not to blame. His company has 52 or 53 thousand employees and he job is to focus on the big picture, not micro-manage the people at the bottom.

If you think that is wrong, that he should be punished for what an editor, a reporter, and a private investigator did more than six years years ago, then President Obama should be punished for the actions a few months ago of a GS-11 at a BATFE office in Phoenix.

No, but he is suppose to take some responsibility, especially for fostering an environment of corporate corruption and a system of shoddy ethics. Go to the Brooks testimony. She is manning up and taking a degree of responsibility.

By their logic, Obama is responsible for the penis pic that Weiner sent out and should also repay the stolen taxes that Charlie Rangel, Taxcheat Geithner, Tom Daschle, Pete Stark, Wexler…..well you get the point.

 So, did we quite blaming “W” for everything now?

Only a true ass who knows nothing about large corporations or entities would say such a thing, but hey, we don’t expect left-wingers to actually know anything about real jobs.  As Murdoch stated, there are over 50,000 employees in many companies around the world.  I’m guessing in your world, he should know what each and everyone of them is doing at all times of the day, 365 days/year.  How ridiculous. 

But using your logic, I’m going to assume you would have to (to be consistent, of course) hold President Obama personally responsible for ANYTHING that ANYONE does wrong in the executive department of U.S. government.  And –again, to be consistent–you would ask Obama to resign the presidency if anyone in the executive department were convicted of criminal offenses, correct?  Think about how absurd that is, but that’s YOUR position.  You now have to defend it.

The MP’s who want to know whether Murdoch’s “responsible” wanted him to say “yes” so they could then pester him to resign.  Anyone with even an ounce of intellectual honesty would admit as much. 

And the larger issue about ALL of this here in the U.S. is that the ONLY reason there’s any media coverage of this here, is because people on the left want desperately to see this somehow trickle down to Fox News Channel, period.  That’s ALL these idiots care about.  Of course, whether they would admit as much is highly doubtful.  But, that’s on them.

I don’t really care about this.  So they caught famous people being sleazy or listened into Phone messages.   Why not give this much effort into catching crooks that hack ebay and Paypal accounts.  That’s way more important that this BS.

And at the risk of stating the obvious, try as you might to make this incident anything less than a FAR-LEFT individual’s actions, what he has accomplished is making people both here and in the UK now sympathetic to Rupert Murdoch.  Brilliant! 

Vanity Fair agrees with me (much to their chagrin, I might add):  http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2011/07/thanks-for-nothing-foamface.html

When is Obama going to take responsibility for Maxine Waters getting Tarp Funds for her and her husband’s bank?

When is Obama AND BIDEN going to take responsibility for using Stimulus funds to supply drug cartels in Mexico and South American countries, US drug gangs and street gangs, with guns?

When is Obama going to take responsibility for giving those executives HUGE bonuses from Tarp funds he told Dodd to give?

When are YOU going to put on some clothes?

I hate to say this but he’s kind of acting like Obama.  I’m the boss but NOTHING is my fault.  However, I AM responsible for everything that is good.

It looks like he has horns.  I see a meme developing!!

He is in London not D.C.  You must be a idiot.  While the  investigating supposed wire tapping of 011 victims, there is no evidence yet presented to substansiate such allegations.  Fox News is a far right and often wrong organization where kissing up to the Tea Party and conservartives in general is so well known to be biased that most litterate individuals don’t watch it.  The literacy rate in the U.S. is one of the lowest in the world blame American education and Americans and not Fox for their ability to con so many Americans.

He is in London not D.C.  You must be a idiot.  While the  investigating supposed wire tapping of 011 victims, there is no evidence yet presented to substansiate such allegations.  Fox News is a far right and often wrong organization where kissing up to the Tea Party and conservartives in general is so well known to be biased that most litterate individuals don’t watch it.  The literacy rate in the U.S. is one of the lowest in the world blame American education and Americans and not Fox for their ability to con so many Americans.

How about Obama’s  Opertion Fast and Furious cover up

So he’s not to blame, AND , he doesn’t really keep in touch with his editors?

I’d say there’s a breakdown in supervision somewhere.

Well that would be good for you and for all others who support hacking the voice mail of murder victims and  deceased soldiers.

Well that would be good for you and for all others who support hacking the voice mail of murder victims and  deceased soldiers.

The old vile bully tries to lie his way out.

Never.

gawddddd damn, ive never heard republicans say I’M SORRY so much in my life….jeeze you badasses have turned into a contrite bunch of sissies….MAN UP RUPERT !!!!….dont suddenly become politically correct and go out like a punk….you make the whole conservative movement look weak…..how come you couldnt act like brett baier and disrespect parliment like he did the president….you acted like a senile old man with memory problems…..dont you worry tho Uncle Ruppy…we MAY keep you in islation in prison away from the blacks and muslims ohhhhh and the gays

Anyone who thinks a CEO knows what’s going on in his subsidiaries knows nothing about business. “News of the World” was less than 1% of total employees at News Corp and accounted for merely 3% of revenues.

Oh let us refresh the memory shall we?

Chris Dodd, “I did not authorize the language in the bill…………….okay, I did put the language in the bill but Obama made me do it!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flXSuexNlV8

News Corp. / ticker symbol: NWS / up 7%

Sorry-A@@ Media Matter, left-wing, DemoKKKrat-types, Wall Street (aka ‘Friends of OBAMA) sees a big move for freedom of speech! LMFAO! heheheheheheheheheheheheheheh

Hey, don’t get mad at me.  It’s not my organization that hacked into the voicemail of a 13 year old girl, deleted her messages, and gave her parents false hope that she was still alive and well.

Yet I’m the true ass? FU.

Sounds like wishful thinking to me.

Shouldn’t you be in Rev. Wright’s pew wolfing down a tamale, fries and a milkshake Moochelle?

WTF? I’m just going to assume you mis-posted this, since I never mentioned geography.

That’s a very valid point.

Do you wonder why there wasn’t a more through investigation years ago when the scandal first broke?

I think the question now is what other parts of his media empire employ similar tactics.

Fox is not the issue and is here in America.  The difficulties, which at this time appear to only affect Britain, are not related to Fox News.  Although some have questioned why they haven’t doggedly ran with the story of the miscreant billionaire.

Egg on their faces!!!??? After how many have resigned, how many arrests, how many lawsuits, how many payoffs, how many papers closed, how many deaths, (so far) Yeah, just give us a few more “fiascos” and “Fox ” will have a new owner! Clownish!

Rupert’s mistake seems to be he let innocent people resign. What is amusing is righteous p—k reporters who couldn’t run the newstands that sell their rags asking Murdoch to resign. It must be just me, I celebrate Murdochs success and wish we had more like him, Ailes too, come to that.

You forgot Eric Holder.

A shout out to Thomas Voeokeler keep the yellow jersey All the way to Paris.

News Corp. stocks went up today. As a shareholder, I’m pleased. For full disclosure, I own GE shares as well. They’re up today too, I making money off every angle of this. 

Murdoch has a such a big ego he won’t resign unless the board tells him it’s time to leave. 

This guy is about as innocent as Casey Anthony.

What did Murdoch do that he should resign?
Did he tell his employees to hack into phones or are you just taking marching orders from the Liberal left and repeating their talking points? Sad!!

Barack Obama(or any other US President) as Commander-in-Chief of the US
armed forces does not(nor is he required to) accept “unequivocal
responsibility” for wrong-doings of a US Marine, or even an Army General
for that matter; assuming the loose cannons in the military commit
heinous crimes against civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Obviously there has been terrible incidents of crimes committed by loose
cannons in the military, some of whom have been tried and convicted,
but I have never seen a US President take responsibility for such crimes
and “resign” as the silly lady suggested.

Why should she ask Rupert Murdoch such a silly question, taking into
account that “News Of The World”, is owned by “News International”,
which is owned by “News Corp”? Will Obama be asked to “resign” if his
appointed staff conspires to commit certain wrong-doings or serious
crimes, even if it were the Secretary of Homeland Security and her own
staff? Wouldn’t be that he fires the persons instead or ask them to
resign?

What a silly question indeed that defies logic and common sense. Like
holding a grandfather responsible for the wrong doing of his grandson
and not even his own son whose kid committed the wrong-doing.

The left is more concerned about seeing Murdoch and his News Corp fall,
than actually looking to see justice served to those directly involved
in the scandal. A phone hacking scandal clearly means that not only the
tabloid journalists are culpable, but also the police, government
officials, and even the phone network providers like Vodafone,
Orange,T-Mobile etc.. are all complicit in the scandal.

And your facts are? Speculation is not a fact in the real world!!

And your facts are? Speculation is not a fact in the real world!!

And your facts are? Speculation is not a fact in the real world!!

The term “plausible deniability” comes to mind.  Rup was very hands on when he wanted to be.  He seems to be contradicting himself!

The law was violated, crimes were committed, resignations have occurred, and Murdock has said he was “shocked, appalled, and ashamed”.  Any other questions?

He undermined shareholder value.

Up 7% after down 50%?  Genius!

That was fast.

Rupert went from “unproven allegations,” to shutting down the paper in order to protect his son, to “I don’t know what my people are up to”

Do you know who 鄧文迪 is screwing right now, Rupert?

lol……the Murdochs and Dirty Red the 3 highest ranking management members at NewsCorp admitted to Parliment that damn near 2 million in settlements went out to victims of their hacking scheme but NONE of them knew a damn thing about it….great news for the shareholders….Im sure you wingnuts believe that bullshit……somebodies going to jail…….GUESS WHO

Murphy, Fox News is center-right, with some shows biased in that direction and others mostly just straight news; but it is TV news, so not exactly the place you’d want to go if you could only choose one source. As for bias, the other TV news organizations are all biased in the other direction. And lastly, Pew Research says FNC viewers are as well informed as everyone else and maybe slightly more so.

James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies 
how canny

One survey does not a fact make.  The latest I read about Americans and being informed showed they didn’t even know simple issues, such as the Chief Justice, Speaker of the House, etc.  Fox News viewers are more likely than the average American to be up on current events with their own jaundiced conservative viewpoint.  Those with higher education, rather than believing money is the only thing in the world, tend to be more egalitarian.

I didn’t get how brilliant your headline screen cap was til Colbert pointed it out.  Nice devil horns on Murdoch.

Murphy, what does this mean? “Those with higher education, rather than believing money is the only thing in the world, tend to be more egalitarian.”

Are you suggesting that the purpose of a university education is to indoctrinate youth in the virtues of socialism?