Rick Perry In New York To Kiss Rupert Murdoch’s Ring

Rick PerryLast night Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry met with News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch for dinner. Murdoch, who owns Fox News, already has a relationship with Perry. Last year Murdoch donated a million dollars to the Republican Governor’s Association which Perry chaired.

Murdoch has also had relationships with several other GOP candidates. Both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum were employed by Fox News until recently. Mike Huckabee and John Bolton are still employed by Fox, however they have bowed out of the presidential race. And Sarah Palin is still on the payroll as she engages in a charade with Fox to boost their respective fortunes (she isn’t running and Fox knows it).

In the meantime Murdoch continues to be shielded by congressional lackeys like Rep. Darrel Issa who refuses to hold hearings on Murdoch’s alleged criminality because he doesn’t want to “start picking on media.” That’s a disturbingly asinine excuse. Generally when politcos talk of picking on the media they are referring to complaints about coverage or bias. What Issa is saying is that investigating crimes is off limits to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. That’s like the SEC saying that Bernie Madoff should not be investigated because they don’t want to pick on fund managers.

Former media mogul, Ted Turner, is less circumspect as he forthrightly declares that Murdoch will probably have to step down as CEO of News Corp:

“A major media company should definitely be following the law, that’s all. And when they break the law — and certainly, it’s already been admitted that News of the World broke the law. The question is how big a scandal is it.”

It remains to be seen what benefits Perry will receive for having paid his respects to the Foxfather. But Perry is well known for making deals that inure to his advantage. He certainly expects some reward, either in the form of more money or more good PR. And if he is the nominee, he will surely get some of both.

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One thought on “Rick Perry In New York To Kiss Rupert Murdoch’s Ring

  1. You have to read the editorial posted in Murdoch’s New York Post. It’s so insulting to facts, our Constitution (but not Murdoch’s apparently), and everything else Americans should hold dear. Murdoch, through his paper, basically says cops can mace innocent protestors who are protesting crony capitalism (I wonder why – hmmm). So many articles cover/covered the “Occupy Wall Street” protests, including the police commanders abusing protestors, including macing women and some police as the women were standing still, unarmed, in a police-held orange fence. Enough details here, it’s been covered now in many other places and tens of thousands of people have been watching the protest LIVE on Livestream, so the facts are crystal-clear vs. The Post’s editorial written by someone who had no idea what was going on, but certainly had a PR piece they wanted for big corporations and Murdoch.

    I wonder, if The New York Post is big on bashing peaceful women and says mace away when those women exercise their 1st Amendment rights that true Americans like Jefferson wanted us to have, how do Murdoch and his shills and servants feel about FCPA, bribing police officers, hacking into phones of crime victims and others, destroying evidence, and other crimes? Surely that must be beyond the pale in comparison to free speech and assembly, correct? I wonder. . .

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