{"id":7484,"date":"2012-07-02T17:52:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T00:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7484"},"modified":"2012-07-02T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T00:52:37","slug":"rupert-murdoch-proves-that-a-fish-stinks-from-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7484","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch Proves That A Fish Stinks From The Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CEO of News Corp, parent company of Fox News, has been tweeting up a storm lately. Much of it was silliness about Tom Cruise’s marital troubles and his view of Scientology as “creepy, maybe evil.”<\/em> But some of it was revealing and noteworthy.<\/p>\n

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The first tweet above is interesting because it is so openly disparaging of Mitt Romney’s campaign team. He does not disguise his opinion that they are amateurs who came to their posts by being Romney cronies. More interesting is the vague introduction wherein he says that he “Met Romney last week.”<\/em> That’s a news bite that had not previously been disclosed.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Romney met with 40 to 50 fatcat supporters<\/a> at a secret meeting in Manhattan including Murdoch, investment banker Ken Langone, Goldman Sachs head Lloyd Blankfein, and other business barons and political operatives. It’s somewhat disturbing that a meeting with this kind of firepower went unreported until after Murdoch let it slip on Twitter. One thing we learned from the meeting was why Romney has been so hesitant to take an actual position on immigration. He told the group that…<\/p>\n

“I know I took some positions in the primary that are” hard to contend with in a general, Romney said, according to two sources. “I am not going to be a flip-flopper,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He is admitting that, were he to take a position, it would be contrary to what he told conservative audiences during the GOP primaries, so he says nothing instead. The Etch-a-Sketch has spoken. He believes that he can get by with Latino voters by relying on surrogate Marco Rubio and one of his sons who speaks Spanish. Yeah, right.<\/p>\n

The second Tweet above is even more revealing. It was Murdoch’s response to all of the flack he got after criticizing Romney. It’s bad enough that he openly states that he wants Romney to win, but what goes farther over the line is his reasoning. He says that he wants Romney to “save us from socialism.”<\/em><\/p>\n

After years of hearing Fox News anchors and guests making delusional comments about President Obama being a socialist, you sort of grow accustomed it. It’s easy to dismiss (and ridicule) wingnuts like Eric Bolling, Sean Hannity, and Sarah Palin. But now we know where they get their marching orders. Rupert Murdoch himself believes that Obama is a Manchurian candidate bent on delivering America into the arms of our commie adversaries. The conspiracy obsessed right-wing media has a leader and a hero in Murdoch. That little tweet explains a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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