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The Current Crisis
The Kultursmog Against Murdoch
A jealous mainstream media attacks Murdoch.
WASHINGTON — Do we need any other evidence that the Kultursmog exists and that it is international — at least in the English-speaking world — than that the biggest news story in the United Kingdom today is also the biggest news story here? I have in mind the telephone-hacking story about News of the World reporters in London listening in on private conversations and possibly bribing Scotland Yard. The Kultursmog is that set of ideas and tastes that are utterly polluted by left-wing values and carried by the Liberal news media to pollute peoples’ minds.
Every day the money-losing New York Times and its subsidiaries throughout mainstream media hammer away at the story of a scandal in faraway England, and, of course, they have located Rupert Murdoch at the very heart of the story. Over the weekend he flies to London. He meets with top aides. The News of the World is killed off. Now a deal for BSkyB is being pulled. What comes next? Well what comes next, reports Reuters, is that the American Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are looking into Murdoch’s company, News Corp., on this side of the Atlantic for criminal behavior. Or maybe they are not. No one will go on the record and say they are investigating. Oh yes, and by the way we have a constitution here with a First Amendment. The Founding Fathers in their infinite wisdom did not want to see the press harassed by innuendo.
Anyone encouraging the government of the United States to investigate a news organization without proper cause is an enemy of freedom. And the harassment of Rupert Murdoch is being executed by enemies of free speech. Step back a minute. Murdoch has a record of saving the free press. He has propped up newspapers all over the English-speaking world. He has purchased the greatest newspaper in America, The Wall Street Journal, and made it better. He has added a second voice to the American media echo chamber, the conservative voice; and by giving the citizenry a chance through his papers and Fox News to decide for themselves which side they are on in important issues of the day, he is a threat to the Kultursmog. That is what is going on with these tedious daily stories in the Times about London skullduggery, and many Americans know it. The Times is fooling no one.
Whatever was done in breach of the law in London will of course be investigated and prosecuted there. But there is no evidence that anything was done here. Those who call for an investigation of News Corp. here are on the wrong side of the freedom issue. What is the New York Times doing day after day filling its front pages with infantile hysteria? This is the same newspaper that published secret American intelligence documents hacked by the suppliers of Wikileaks on its front pages. Presumably innocent people were victims of terrorists because of it, possibly American soldiers. What hypocrisy by the Times to put a hacking story on its front page day after day and to complain about the Murdoch press’s hacking story. This is the same newspaper that during the Reagan presidency ran a Kitty Kelley story implying that Frank Sinatra trysted surreptitiously with Nancy Reagan while the Old Cowboy was snoozing upstairs. Or more recently the Times claimed that Roger Ailes of Fox News had committed wrongdoing that “could possibly rise to the level of conspiracy to lie to federal officials, a federal crime….” That was in February and we are still awaiting poor Ailes’ indictment. Meanwhile Fox News continues to make more money than the combined revenue of CNN, MSNBC, and the evening news broadcasts of the networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC.
The New York Times is bleeding money. Its front page news stories about Murdoch will not change that and will probably only drive still more objective readers away, alarmed by its crusading zeal on behalf of a story with little resonance here. Reportedly a rich Mexican, Carlos Slim, is keeping it afloat. He is not a Mexican by birth and he is not slim. He is mysterious, and the mystery is what he sees in the money-losing New York Times.
I predict that this scandal will work its way out in London and have little consequence here. If I am wrong and it does threaten the American free press, our Founding Fathers’ safeguards embedded in the First Amendment were not strong enough.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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Handy| 7.14.11 @ 6:31AM
It would be best for everyone involved if they stopped reading and quoting the NYT. Cold turkey. Everyone knows what it has become, so why bother to give it any more credibility than it deserves?
If it weren't for the pundits constantly citing the NYT, it would sink all that much faster. It's like scratching an itch: temporary relief, but why not just eliminate the irritation in the first place? In this case the best treatment is no treatment. No scratching, either.
Pecos Pete| 7.14.11 @ 6:50AM
New York Times? A newspaper that is rapidly converting to a gossip sheet.
I agree with Handy. Forget about the NYT, stop quoting it.
POST American| 7.14.11 @ 7:08AM
Front op DIS-traction and sideshow.
Murdoch is, quite obviously, a true Fabian
Globalist, utterly at one with the POST national,
POST cultural TREASON agendas worldwide.
Not only does FOX obediantly bury anything
embarassing to the agenda, such as John Wheeler's
murder, or the staggering world pop reduction
op pulsing away in Fukishima ---but quietly
programs the coming border collapse while funding
'Reconquista' flicks like 'Machete'.
Further, our sources report Murdoch people
are on the scene in Beijing's very own 'perception
management' (ie propaganda) bureau.
Murdoch's CAP-IT---ALLLLL-ism is ready
at the service of franchise slum and wampum
Globalist values whenever, wherever and
however required.
Murdoch remains the Fabian's most cunning
front op.
REALLY
TRULY
---------DON'T BE DECEIVED-------------------
The Dude| 7.15.11 @ 8:14AM
You need to lay off of the drugs, man.
"Kid Richie"| 7.15.11 @ 8:34AM
In what fog-bound miasma does your brain try to function?
Dan Mathewson| 7.18.11 @ 12:16AM
Hey guys, The Dude and Kid Richie I think he's related to Mr. Doubletalk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DznTdY3Av_E Actually, I think Mr. Doubletalk makes more sense.
chris bradley| 7.14.11 @ 7:41AM
The problem for us on this side of the atlantic is the clearly percieved close relationship between senior politicians, senior Murdoch editors (ex editors were the closest advisors to two past and the present Prime Minister) and corrupt police.
hardcard| 7.14.11 @ 7:48AM
I smell a soros. Beck is underattack, Murdoch and Fox on the hit list.
kate| 7.15.11 @ 1:32AM
Fox should send the White House a truck load of peas.
"Kid Richie"| 7.15.11 @ 8:38AM
Soros is the evil one, has been, is and always will be. Why hasn't he been investigated? He has openly stated that he wishes to destroy the USA because it stands in the way of World Socialism. He uses his ill-gained wealth to undermine all remaining "free" States. Is this not sedition?
POST American| 7.14.11 @ 8:08AM
---BECK was and is an obvious set up, by
Murdoch, to deflect attention and neutralize
the ever growing, and well earned, impact of ALEX JONES.
While BECK makes some genuinely provocative
and seemingly 'daring' presentations, at every
KEY moment he mooshes up and pitches that
stale, standard tent show 'enmeshment whore'
slop.
Look at what a disjointed, half-assed mess
his ;happening on the Mall' turned out to be.
Ecumenical nonsense a la that tried and true,
and ever undermining, ever deadly Rockefeller
'Council of Churches' formula.
LEAVE religion OUT of it-----------------------
Again, he's undermining genuine, informed
righteous assertion with squishy inclusion fantasies and tasteless self-promotion.
Impossible to have any kind of self-respect
and be a true BECK fan.
IMPOSSIBLE.
Come to think of it, the same applies to the
entire 'go along/get along' 'on board' Murdoch
stable.
IF he were genuine he'd sustain himself in the
TRUTH, and surely wouldn't be working in
the Murdoch, stale beer and chips, T n' A
franchise slum.
That he continually mugs and addresses the
audience like a bunch of misguided 15 year olds
doesn't help his case.
Tenn Slim| 7.14.11 @ 8:38AM
As a Objective Viewer of Glenn B. I offer this.
NEVER ONCE was the WH on the Red Phone to answer ANY chalk board displays.
TRUTH is what the records, the stats display. Connecting dots is anathema to rhetoric.
Glenn's methods may be somewhat childish, but consider the apathy of 60 years of neglect he had to and is overcoming.
Try to avoid rhetoric, lies and outright blatant ignorance. Glenn continualy says READ, ANALYZE, BELIEVE YOUR OWN ANALYSIS.
end
Semper fi
Con Chef (NB) | 7.14.11 @ 10:11AM
"Look at what a disjointed, half-assed messhis ;happening on the Mall' turned out to be."
Uh, were YOU there? Because I was. And I didn't see some "disjointed, half-assed messhis" (whatever a "messhis" is). I saw about 400,000 patriotic Americans of all age groups, races, etc coming together to make their voices heard. And it was a HELL of a lot of fun. You know not whence you speak.
crookedwren| 7.14.11 @ 8:52AM
Um. FNC has a huge audience. Before that, Beck was on CNN!
Besides, he's no longer a part of Murdoch's world.
And we'll see what comes of his "methods."
I think he's walking a dangerous road, Beck is. Perhaps I'm naive. (I have been before.) Perhaps I'm being hoodwinked. (Aren't we? On a daily basis in this crazy world?) I've run into egotists before, and Beck's humility gauge is going to have to be stronger than his ego to see him safely down the path he's headed.
But I think Beck has verbalized what too many of us have been thinking, feeling, suspecting. His researchers have found some terrific pieces of evidence --- evidence of words spoken --- that's gold when you're dealing with a media that is shamefully full of lies. It helps us who can't spend 24/7 doing such research.
He may seem childish to you -- I don't mind it. At least he's not a Harvard-brand, not a Marxist-bred "Progressive" who talks down his nose at us.
And as for the 8/28 gathering -- and his "reliance on Divine Providence" -- I wouldn't be so quick to classify it as "religion." And I wouldn't be so quick to ridicule it. Peaceful gatherings of that number are rare in the history of the world.
I say: 2 + 2 = 4.
If you know what that refers to, you know what I mean.
Grzmlyk| 7.14.11 @ 11:01AM
I haven't followed Beck that closely, and I'm not a fan of his personality at all - but I think most of his content is 100% accurate.
Not familiar with it, but I assume 2 + 2 = 4 is something he said that represents the fact that reality is inescapable.
Obviously, that's the problem.
Reality? That's just for you gun-totin', god-fearin', religion clingin' morons (also known in economics as "the wealth producers").
Liberalism doesn't believe in truth. And the Obama tyranny has contempt for it.
Here's the formulation under Obama:
2 + 2 is whatever the hell I tell you it is, and if you don't like it, maybe a few months in a re-education camp will teach you. And if that doesn't work, maybe the bureaucrat who will be the district manager of your health care sector will put you on the "liquidation" list.
When will you conservatives learn? You are subjects of The State, you exist at the pleasure of The State, all of your rights are given to you by the whim of The State, and if you don't like The State, the State will make you go away.
All Hail Obama! The State is All! Obama is The State! May his beneficence preside over us for a thousand years!
mike w| 7.14.11 @ 11:59PM
Beck has become absolutely un-listenable. His obsession with all things Israel has led him off the deep end in the ratings. In fact , in my market they have moved him to the late night time slot and put some unknown local hosts on in the daytime.
Too bad. He was interesting in a childish way for a time but then he gained his messiah complex.
"Kid Richie"| 7.15.11 @ 8:40AM
What venom!
Dan Mathewson| 7.18.11 @ 12:23AM
The other big question is what if any? And if not how much?
Tenn Slim| 7.14.11 @ 8:33AM
Look for the Carlos connection to Soros.
Money talks.
IF the FOX news etal goes down, in the coming months, Soros 1. Fox and the Conservative cause = Zero.
The MSM has absolutely nothing to lose in this crusade. FOX has beaten them hands down for years. Now, finally, a crack in the Castle wall.
Storm the bastions, level the Moat, the siege is on.
We, the USA Electorate, are the real losers. IF Fox goes, the last voices will be Rush, Glenn, Horowitz etal on "AM", which reaches only the urban areas.
2012, the Left will and is not going quietly into the night.
end
Semper Fi
crookedwren| 7.14.11 @ 8:42AM
Ditto.
And as for those who advise us to ignore the NYT, well, remember -- they are bleeding money. FNC is making it -- as is Murdoch. Nothing worse to them than a conservative voice getting out to the world. Remember Net Neutrality? Here it is, folks.
Remember the last IMF chief? Cook up a crime, and you're selling news AND kicking someone who isn't playing nice with others.
How much better to be kicking Murdoch -- who has a channel where conservatives do have a chance to speak.
Doctor Right| 7.14.11 @ 12:23PM
FOX NEWS isn't going anywhere.
Pat| 7.14.11 @ 7:19PM
Doctor R, thanks. Nice to see someone who isn’t an hysterical twit dispensing a well-deserved bucket of ice water. Ali-Bama and his band of 4,000 thieves is fair game here on TAS but the NY Times is far more vulnerable, they’re not guaranteed, by law, a term of office or showered with generous compensation paid for with other people’s money. And may the ghost of Ronald Reagan protect us from Conservative Paul Reveres who take it upon themselves to visit the enemy camp merely to keep us informed of what the media putzs on both coasts are currently up to. Why these self-nominated busybodies feel compelled to contribute to the profit lines of the Mainstream Media is beyond rational conception. And allowing the NY Times to list author R. Emmett as a frequent visitor for the edification of potential advertisers seems imbecilic, if not downright sacrificial.
The NY Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, the SF Chronicle, the LA Times, et al are the willing mouthpieces of those who would rob us. Visiting their websites or buying their rags, regardless of how pure your motives, is infantile – these people are intent on clubbing baby seals with you as the designated seal. And if you must insist on being robbed, try walking down 12th street in Detroit, flashing a wad of cash, you’ll get your wish, guaranteed.
Lajoy| 7.15.11 @ 7:29AM
Probably some inviodious Catholic plot.
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:02PM
"Invidious," sir.
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:04PM
Indeed. I listen to Glen quite a bit, and I've noticed pro-Israel bias, (which is appropriate) but no obsessionality. He seems to focus on Soros, and Soros is an evil Kapo bastard who deserves the focus.
David W| 7.14.11 @ 8:18PM
Ummm, channeling just a bit of the ol' Bastille Day fervor?
And your ignorance about AM's reach into rural areas is not only appalling but insulting.
hardcard| 7.14.11 @ 9:05AM
I smell a soros. Divide and conquer, paid trolls!!!
David W| 7.14.11 @ 8:19PM
Ya mean, I could paid for posting here? Hot dang! Where do I sign up?
Wait a minute, you're not some Nigerian prince holding out some kind of scam, are you?
Ken (Old Texican)| 7.14.11 @ 9:08AM
See my blog on my blogsite: "Canaries In The Coal Mine"
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Conservative Bob| 7.14.11 @ 9:17AM
Creepy Dude is behind this effort... and the lefts hated of all things Fox...
Anthony| 7.14.11 @ 9:49AM
Quite right RET. As a poster here at TAS suggested the other day, substitute lit'le Pinch Sultzburger's name for Murdoch and this story finds its way on page A-7 of the NYT, NOT. It would be a non story. No spit flying from Matthews' mouth if this was the NYT.
The D whores in congress smell blood. Gee, where were the investigations of the New York Times when all those military secrets over the war in Iraq were splashed on page 1 of the NYT? Mr. Rissen of the Times should be wearing an orange jumpsuit, along with Pinch, but leaking secrets is fine if you're a leftist.
Remember, the Constitution is a flexable document for leftists. The 1st Amendment only protects leftists. Just ask the lecturer-in -chief of a president. He knows the Constitution inside and out, Alinsky style.
OLDRAY| 7.14.11 @ 11:06AM
If you think the NY Times is bad (and it is), take a listen to the BBC. This far left media spews anti-Murdock propaganda day and night with venom it never applies to Terrorists or Islamofascists in it's midst.
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:05PM
The Beeb is well known to be a pro-terror station 24/7/365.
Sheila| 7.14.11 @ 11:31AM
Fox is "conservative" the way the Repukes are conservative - i.e. they're not. As I read in a comment at VFR,
"The power that Murdoch has is not that he can preach his evil right-wing message to the white working class, but that he has their attention at all. And this attention he assiduously uses to divert their minds away from anything that might challenge the liberal status quo, whilst maintaining the illusion of "speaking for the common man" . . . All that gossip and rubbish serves a higher purpose . . . The News Of The World and its sister paper The Sun are pitched at the most naturally reactionary segment of British society, the white working class. And if you "read" his papers you can see that they are perfectly pitched to suppress the emergence of any real revolutionary sentiments amongst its readers. Of course it does contain the kind of story that make the left roll their eyes--stories of illegal immigrants and the "perception" that these lowers orders seem to have that crime is increasing, despite the benevolent efforts of the State to eradicate it by abolishing poverty and the family. But it has to contain these kinds of story, because it understands its readers, and knows that this is what they are talking and thinking about. It deals with this fact by presenting these stories in exactly those terms that you have discussed so often yourself--"PC gone too far," "Another loony left idea that will never happen (whoops, it's just happened and now it's illegal to criticize)," stories that present things as a fait accompli, as if immigrants coming here was like the weather, the constant fiction that the government is about to finally swing back to proper "common sense" policies. You know the kind of stuff."
"When leftists talk about the "power of the right wing press" they are really talking about the power of someone to keep a sleeping giant asleep. Rupert Murdoch, and others such as the Republican party, are not actually "right wing" and have no "right wing agenda." But they are also people who are not signed up to the leftist worldview either. They are cynical enough to see the truth, but also cynical enough not to care . . . This is what the modern right wing is: people who believe in nothing, right or left, but do love money and the feeling of power--for it is a kind of real power, a power the left can never have, the power to expose people to reality. Even though they do not understand it themselves, the left deeply resent this power, because it makes a mockery of them--they can never have the power to expose people to reality precisely because reality is always running against them, and they are the ones trying to hide the fact. Thus their intense loathing for the Murdoch press and the right generally, and thus the reason why they hate the right so much in spite of having it so comprehensively beaten. And ultimately, this is why the current Schadenfreude of the left over the difficulties of Murdoch will end in disappointment for their more naive and deluded elements. For the elites who really understand, it's a case of "better the devil you know." What the liberal elites would really fear is the collapse of a media empire owned by a man they know they have bought off, and the potential for something more radical and dangerous to replace it."
"This is why Murdoch--and for that matter the Conservative Party and the Republicans--will survive. "
Grzmlyk| 7.14.11 @ 1:02PM
I'm not sure that the author doesn't curl in on himself one too many times here - I got kind of lost in this. I went to the original article and am still slightly confused.
I think what he's saying is that Murdoch's empire (and, in particular, Fox News) is really part of the leftist landscape - perhaps it defines the rigthtward perimeter and is adversarial toward conventional liberalism, but it is a domesticated adversary and, as such, is acceptable to them because its very stance as a tepid outlier validates the status quo; in fact, the very constitution of Fox News and its programs pays tribute to leftist media by often mimicking the inanity that emanates from the other networks (Fox & Friends, the "The Five," etc.) and providing liberals equal time while serving up ultimately anodyne hosts (Beck is a different animal who undercut himself by his own insufferable, puerile clownishness).
I think O'Reilly is the prime example - the man's a pandering joke, and he's the crown jewel on Fox News. I'm also not a huge fan of Hannity, although I tend to think he's reliably conservative if not remotely a thinker. Van Sustren, of course, is pop culture all the way, as is the unwatchable Huckabee.
I do think the Bret Baier show is pretty good - by the admittedly low standards of nightly news. Ditto Fox News Sunday on most days.
I guess the posting you quote here can be summed up by the personage of Charles Krauthammer - at one time a typical Beltway elitist thoroughly enamored of Obama, now more strenuous in his objections to Obama's brand of tyranny - but still in a way that will not seriously imperil his stream of invitations to A-list liberal gatherings.
And I suppose the unspoken conclusion of this quote is that left/right discourse as presented by Fox News - which swims in the same ratings pool as every other TV show - will never change anything - what is required is revolution, and revolution in which people play for keeps, and that's one struggle Murdoch is not down for.
I agree with that.
Sheila| 7.14.11 @ 8:23PM
A succinct and correct distillation of the original comment, I believe. Fox is precisely what you termed it - a "domesticated adversary" which will never upset the paradigm. Their reporting, and the left's protests, all stay within predictable boundaries.
DRed| 7.14.11 @ 12:15PM
So the NYT loses money, therefore nobody should care if Rupert Murdoch breaks the law. Makes sense.
Con Chef (NB) | 7.14.11 @ 12:26PM
Can you tell me where Mr. Murdoch was involved in this hacking fiasco? What laws did he break over HERE?
David W| 7.14.11 @ 8:29PM
Dunno. That's why allegations are investigated. Ya, due process of the law.
Just like you would be investigated if it were alleged you were buggering the neighbor's poodle.
Messy thing, this thing called democracy.
skip| 7.18.11 @ 11:34AM
Condemned as just another form of tyranny, this thing called democracy, by the founding fathers.
Maybe that is why they established a constitutional republic.
That is, if we could keep it.
Grzmlyk| 7.14.11 @ 1:21PM
Some people, like DRed, believe Rupert Murdoch should be sodomized and assassinated, his corpse dragged through the streets of Washington, desecrated and then set afire.
Others say News Corp. is angelic, never having done anything wrong.
I believe cooler heads should prevail, and that a middle course is achievable. Therefore, as the only adult in the room, I advocate allowing Murdoch to live, but stripping him of all of his companies and the wealth they've brought him, and putting him in solitary confinement in some prison TODAY, without a trial, for the duration of his life.
This is how I, Barack "the punk" Obama, deal with every issue, for the only way I can appear to be a man is by standing next to other men who are made entirely of straw.
So I have spoken, and so it must be done.
DRed| 7.14.11 @ 1:49PM
I do? Is Newscorp above the law? There's certainly enough evidence of lawbreaking to at least consider further investigation, don't you think? FCPA violations, possible wiretapping crimes. It wouldn't bother you if some newspaper was hacking 9/11 victims voicemails? Would it only be upsetting if it were a liberal paper?
Grzmlyk| 7.14.11 @ 2:07PM
Buy a clue, moron.
DRed| 7.14.11 @ 2:21PM
Well, at least your fact free, insult filled rants are getting briefer.
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:07PM
I dunno. The NYT broke the Pentagon Papers, yes? They broke an active clandestine approach to defund terrorists, yes? They have contributed to increasing the risk of living iun NYC, yes?
Filthy pot noting speck on pristine kettle.
Oldefarte| 7.14.11 @ 1:20PM
This is typical of the sleazball left and their MSM conspirators. I recall the frontpage headline of the supposedly ten year old affair of John McCain prior to the November 2008 election that was conveniently an attempt at political smear by the NYT's asininely partisaned agenda. These liberal will simply stop at nothing to achieve their political ends. They are all corrup, immoral pigs; and the truly disgusting thing to me is that they are somewhat successful in their brainwashing propaganda efforts through television, newspapers, movies, etc. They do not have any sense of right and wrong, and their putrid activities make one want to pull down their pants and excrement in the street from digestation of their filth!!!!!!!!!
wayne| 7.14.11 @ 1:53PM
ANYONE who thinks that this is not TOTALLY about eliminating FOXNEWS had better get a clue.
I promise you that you will see Eric Holder moving top freeze NEWS CORP finances, stopping the presses, and the FCC refusing their broadcast license within 6 - 9 months. Without money they won't be able to fight for their licenses in court. This about the commie-media and Obamian cabal finally silencing the opposition voices. They have been dreaming and scheming about this since the 2000 election - and probably since Rush Limbaugh's first radio broadcast.
I do believe this was a big reason that Beck left Fox - some sort of opposition voice has to survive the coming onslaught and Beck figures he'll get a couple more years online. They get Rush by years end, too. Something to do with his drug issue possibly planted by Holder's people.
You have no idea how serious these Marxists are about their great utopian dream and what they are willing to do to get and maintain it - even the Spanish Inquisition was more reserved and compassionate in its conduct. Read Solzhenitsyn some time.
Oldefarte| 7.14.11 @ 4:37PM
Amen! Beck's departure was unexplained, but previous pressure put upon his advertisers tels the story [and Fox caved into same]. The MSM's are all losing ad revenues and readership/subscribers and they're hunkering down for a fight with conservative outlets such as Fox and Murdoch!!!!!!
Smirking Weasel| 7.14.11 @ 1:55PM
'Presumably'-if you have facts that Wikileaks harmed specific individuals, then state them. Otherwise, its just arm-waving as argument.
Defending Murdoch shows how debauched 'conservatism' has become.
Dixie Pixie| 7.14.11 @ 2:05PM
Just two words::::
---Conrad Black---
The News of the World reporters were caught in an actual violation of law.
Naturally the Socialist / Left will try to link and convect Rupert Murdoch of the crimes no matter how ludicrous the connection.
The Socialist / Left simply wants to convect Rupert Murdoch of “ Heresy by Thought, Word and Deed” as they did Conrad Black.
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:08PM
Conrad, personally, is a great man and gentleman. He deserves this not.
Marc Jeric| 7.14.11 @ 3:45PM
No surprise here; I have started calling the NY Times as the NY Pravda ever since way back in 1968. I can claim presonal experience here, having escaped from a communist hell many years ago.
David W| 7.14.11 @ 8:03PM
Enough with the escape from communist hell already. Sheesh, yes the past is prologue but grow a pair and start looking to the future.
If some friends who were refugeed three times during World War II had your attitude, they never would have achieved what they did in their lives.
Petronius| 7.14.11 @ 3:50PM
How dare a third tier daily dump for east enders utilize a dirty trick ahead of the beltway character assassins? Now they'll have to read The Mirror.
Bad Murdoch: No K; no Peerage! And no more amusement.
Jack London| 7.14.11 @ 6:04PM
Unfortunately for you ass-licking Murdoch apologists there may be a case under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, let alone what he may have done domestically.
Nick| 7.14.11 @ 6:22PM
Jack Moscow,
There might be a case?
Well then, by all means, let's string-up Murdoch right now!
I'm still waiting for an explanation of the term enthalpy, by the way.
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:10PM
Enthalpy: total heat energy of a thermodynamic system, Nick.
Jack, you naughty boy, don't you have a 3rd world war story about China to write right now?
(London did, and bonus, Jack, if you know the name of the story. Read it when I was a teenager.) I also liked "The Iron Heel," although it was FAR weaker than 1984 or Brave New World.)
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:21PM
Actually, this is the more precise definition. It should be pointed out that enthalpy is a point function, and thus the path taken to get from one measure to another is immaterial.
From Wikipedia:
Thermodynamics
Enthalpy is a measure of the total energy of a thermodynamic system. It includes the internal energy, which is the energy required to create a system, and the amount of energy required to make room for it by displacing its environment and establishing its volume and pressure.
Enthalpy is a thermodynamic potential. It is a state function and an extensive quantity. The unit of measurement for enthalpy in the International System of Units (SI) is the joule, but other historical, conventional units are still in use, such as the British thermal unit and the calorie.
The enthalpy is the preferred expression of system energy changes in many chemical, biological, and physical measurements, because it simplifies certain descriptions of energy transfer. This is because a change in enthalpy takes account of energy transferred to the environment through the expansion of the system under study.
The total enthalpy, H, of a system cannot be measured directly. Thus, change in enthalpy, ΔH, is a more useful quantity than its absolute value. The change ΔH is positive in endothermic reactions, and negative in exothermic processes. ΔH of a system is equal to the sum of non-mechanical work done on it and the heat supplied to it.
Oldefarte| 7.16.11 @ 2:28PM
Woooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
e track from saq| 7.14.11 @ 6:57PM
So,let me get this straight.Fox fails via the courts and arcane laws while all the trash liberal news outlets are failing because their trash liberal.
Hack this,hell if their not hacking their not trying hard enough.Who lets their phone get hacked by a paper?And isn't the redress to up the privacy of your network.I say good for them,I wanted every piece of inside information that they worked so hard to obtain
David W| 7.14.11 @ 8:09PM
Okay, points for honesty: how many of you would be as outraged as you apopletically are if the British Government was investigating the owner of the Washington Times? A show of hands? No? No one?
By serendipity in channel surfing this week, I watched Canadian broadcast news, the BBC, and a German broadcast and there was pretty much consensus on the facts. Arrests have been made in the UK in fairly high reaches of the current government. Unless you're willing to take a even deeper plunge into Lake Conspiracy, I think you'd have to admit that there's something going on here.
If you're being even slightly fair-minded and open.
David W| 7.14.11 @ 8:23PM
Whoa. "Carlos Slim?" This kind of paranoia and vague innuendo is reaching new levels of weird even for the American Spectator.
And, why, oh why, are you so willing to give Roger Ailes a free pass? Has everyone forgotten his role in the Nixon White House? Seems to me old habits would be hard to break.
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:14PM
Yes, Carlos Slim, the Mexican Billionare, is loaning money to the NYT to prop it up, David. This is mainstream business news---here's the link from Bloomberg News: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/.....dule.html.
Ralph Novy| 7.14.11 @ 9:14PM
The new "Lord Haw Haw."
Congratulations.
Wow.
Are you actually proud of yourself for spouting that nonsense?
My word.
POST American| 7.14.11 @ 10:21PM
---BECK comes on well, but always ends
up providing cover for the 'Men Behind the Curtains', the capstone creeps of Globalization.
Catch how he's endlessly ranting about such low
level functionaries and frontmen as Cass Sunstein
or Van Jones. These fugures are sideshows at
best.
And then he's hosting creeps like RED China
promoter 'Jolly' Jim Rogers --exhorting us to
follow the RED Chinese (actually bankster EUGENICS) 'model'.
He was also for the debt serfdom generating
'Banker Bailout'.
He NEVER goes after the
'Big Boys' a la the LONG and centrally sinister
David Rockefeller and Eduard de Rothchild.
Instead of another round with Black nobility
set up front man George Soros ---WHY
doesn't he do a week on how, right now, Monsanto
and Rothchild are destroying the agriculture of
the entire Indian subcontinent with sleazy
market monopolization and deadly GM food.
(BTW underway here as well)
Remember kiddies, these people were directly
behind such lovely history as the Poor Laws,
the Corn Laws, African Slavery, the destruction
of Old China via opium and, later, 'CALM-you-nism', to say nothing of Bolshevism, Stalinism,
Naizism and MAO----and of course the relentless promotion os 'SO-shall--ALLL-ism' to fight
their concept of 'CAP-IT--ALL--ism'.
DO the homework!
Remember further, Eduard Rothchild was the
original man to come out publicly with the
debt plantation concept of 'carbon taxes' (1987)
all to be run through his family's ultra sleazy
'Bank of International Settlements' in Switzerland.
DO we need to continue? DO you think now,
confirmed EUGENISTS that they publicly are,
that they've 'changed'?
------------ARE YOU NUTS?
Anyway, like his memory holing of the John Wheeler murder, just weeks before those
fishy black bird, and sardine mass kills
---just before the even fishier 3/11 and 4/11
Fukishima world nuclear disasters --
"Among my colleagues in Britain the talk is
now general that these 'timely' nuclear disasters
are quite literally being used for depopulation--"
-Dr. Timothy Busby
----Beck is memory holing sovereign American TRUTH itself.
"Glenn Beck is like a great big sparkling glass of
orange juice --with a spoonful of arsenic
stirred in."
-ALEX JONES
BECK continues to be an 'on board' helpmate
for our fast coming economic, cultural and
demographic collapse.
He's the on call pooch of Fabian cultural subversion CON-artist Rupert Murdoch.
DO GET REAL BEFORE YOU DIE
Frank Provasek| 7.14.11 @ 11:31PM
Tyrrell seems to forget that Murdoch, in order to own Fox TV stations, had become a US citizen and incorporate News Corp as an American company, since US law bars foreign ownership of broadcast properties. Thus the actions in the UK may indeed violate US laws against American companies bribing government employees in other countries. In addition, crimes commited by affiliated companies can result in loss of broadcasting licenses..see the RKO General case from 1980.
kate| 7.15.11 @ 12:09AM
The courts are useless anymore. The current administration will simply direct one of it's departments to shut her down.
Follow the Cap and Trade farce. It wasn't going to pass in Congress so the EPA is just DOING it.
In fact we don't need Congress or the courts!
What was that saying? GD America?
kate| 7.14.11 @ 11:56PM
If FOX NEWS were to be shut down by the government, there would be a revolution. The Constitution has our back on this one. Now if we could only trust the courts.
Hmmmm. We are in quite a pickle
mike w| 7.15.11 @ 12:07AM
Murdoch is a disgusting pile of garbage. Unfortunately he is less disgusting than most of the rest of the media.
Fox lost it for me during the early days of the Iraq war. The blatant lies and irrational nonsense put out by the Bush administration to sell that fiasco were parrotted by Fox News. Zero critical analysis. As a conservative I can't just say "Bush always good and just" just because he is a Republican.
Along those lines, I was just looking at Little Green Footballs. The website that many conservatives embraced 8 years ago because of his support of aforementioned war, is now a frothing drooling leftist site. Charles Johnson appears to have gone insane.
kate| 7.15.11 @ 12:20AM
Half of this country has gone insane. In fact they are so insane that there isn't anything that can stop them from destroying the country and creating havoc abroad.
kate| 7.15.11 @ 12:29AM
I have a son who was a college student and a leftist when Obama was elected. During a political discussion (at least on my part) he had the nerve to imply that the conservatives can work hard, make the money and keep the country strong and that the liberals can be "creative" deep thinkers and keep us all in line.
He is whistling a different tune now that he has graduated and is slinging burgers. :)
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 5:15PM
Leftism always breaks on the hard shoals of reality.
sell wow gold | 7.15.11 @ 3:49AM
this is nice
skf bearings | 7.15.11 @ 4:17AM
It would be best for everyone involved if they stopped reading and quoting the NYT.
weddingdress | 7.15.11 @ 4:51AM
Fox lost it for me during the early days of the Iraq war. The blatant lies and irrational nonsense put out by the Bush administration to sell that fiasco were parrotted by Fox News. Zero critical analysis. As a conservative I can't just say "Bush always good and just" just because he is a Republican.
Will| 7.15.11 @ 6:57AM
News of the World journalists hacked into the phone of Milly Dowler, a 13-year old who was abducted and murdered in 2002. Journalists deleted her some of her phone messages, thus interfering with a police investigation.
They hacked into the phones of the families of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, two ten-year old girls murdered in 2002. And the phones of the families of servicemen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the families of people killed in the 7/7 bombings in 2005. And a number of very senior politicians. They illegally obtained the medical records of Gordon Brown's young son, Fraser, who has cystic fibrosis.
The leader of an organisation that does these sort of things, that creates a culture were journalists learn to suspend morality, does not deserve to run the smallest of local newspapers, let alone the NOTW, Sun, Times and Sunday Times.
kate| 7.18.11 @ 9:59AM
CBS News was not shut down because of Dan Rather's behavior.
Will| 7.15.11 @ 6:58AM
Oh, and they paid Metropolitan Police officers for information, so they are also guilty of corruption.
Dave K.| 7.15.11 @ 1:12PM
"The Founding Fathers in their infinite wisdom did not want to see the press harassed by innuendo". (RET, Jr.)
Or the “wink wink, pip pip ole’ chap, accusation of hacking cell phones in the USA on 911 by Murdoch’s rival, a communist front newspaper called, Guardian.
This reminds me of a totally unbiased investigation of H.W. Bush’s super duper secret trip on an invisible airplane in the middle of the night to Iran.
The heady notion that the “seriousness of the allegation” warrants an anal exam by the lead accuser falls squarely into the ‘modus operandi’ of all fun loving leftists.
I think a closer examination of the reporter’s that failed Mr. Murdoch may turn up a “Spooky Dude” connection. I just wish I had more standing in DC political circles. That would give my allegation more of an unbiased review.
Dacron Mather| 7.16.11 @ 5:00AM
Gag thee with a spoon, RET-
Rupert is the Voldemort of Kultursmog
Scott Lahti | 7.17.11 @ 9:39PM
Chicken McMencken, ladies and gentlemen.
Pat Hickey | 7.18.11 @ 10:19AM
Well presented Bob!
Last summer the dweebs, feebs and Gleeks of the Journolist had their collective Dad 'n Lad's yanked down by the Jocks and Greasers; therefore the summer of Rupert is upon us.
This is one dry Aussie Well that these pampered pundits will waste a great deal of ink and ire upon.