Media Generalissimo Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News Captain Roger Ailes "absolutely despise" Bill
O'Reilly, the fat-mouthed, faux populist bruiser whose show on their network is cable's top-rated.
In a biography of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns The News, to be released Tuesday, Michael Wolff writes:
“The embarrassment can no longer be missed,” Wolff wrote, in another section of the book. “He mumbles even more than usual when called on to justify it. He barely pretends to hide the way he feels about Bill O’Reilly. And while it is not that he would give Fox up—because the money is the money; success trumps all—in the larger sense of who he is, he seems to want to hedge his bets.”
(Ailes has plenty to be loathed about his own self).
(photo: Roger & He)
Murdoch, according to Wolff, has been embarrassed that the raggedy- ass, right-wing populist Fox News is seen as the flagship for his empire (this from the guy who owns The New York Post???) and has been coy for years about his politics,which are conservativive, but sometimes he's backed surprisingly liberal candidates like Tony Blair, and Hillary Clinton.
He even cock-teased everybody this year with a possible endorsement of Obama.
He describes (via Politico's Michael Calderone) a fascinating meeting last summer between Obama and Murdoch who unexpectedly brought Roger Ailes along:
Ailes, unruffled, said it might not have been this way if Obama had come on the air instead of giving Fox the back of his hand.
A tentative truce, which may or may not have historical significance, was thereupon agreed.
Despite the truce, Fox and the Obama campaign still battled it out, especially in the campaign’s final weeks. That said, Obama did sit down with O’Reilly, Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” and “Fox & Friends.”
The endorsement never came, and in October, Obama told the NY Times in a cover story:
Obama won in the end despite active opposition by Fox News who had been eight years in the forefront of White House access, and clout. The cable leader is now being elbowed out of the way in the new Washington by the likes of MSNBC, CNN and even Air America.
From you saying you need to look at the IP's (More than once), knowing whether a certain person posted a certain post and that post/posters IP being removed/banned/blocked within a few hours of the post being posted, to B'lam giving you credit for stories and like the last example above coming to your defense. What I dont get is why you haven't asked B'lam to ban Garys IP address like he has done in the past to others.
Its called observation Sparky.
And in that observation, you have the power.
Posted by: nevets | December 03, 2008 at 05:31 PM
Allright
Allright
Allright
To GG or 'Beast' I will say that I have been unable to find the support for the percentage of 49% of all marriages will end up in divorce or whatever it was.
I further state that I should have said so earlier when it became clear that I was wrong.
Does this satisfy you? Putz, Duff, Steven, anyone else out there?
Posted by: Sparky | December 03, 2008 at 05:51 PM
I'm cool with it.
Glad you finally came around Sparky.
Trying to always be right is a heavy burden. Lucky for you, the young Beast Rabben has made the load a little easier for you to carry.
You should thank him. I do.
Posted by: EdmondsDan | December 03, 2008 at 06:02 PM
Nice try. However, when you decide to impersonate me, please use correct spelling and grammar, ok?
Thanks.
Posted by: sparky ( not the imitator) | December 03, 2008 at 06:22 PM
That's too funny.
But I would agree that your grammar is much better than Joanie's.
Posted by: PugetSound | December 03, 2008 at 06:29 PM
Joanie just types faster than I do, that's all.
Posted by: sparky | December 03, 2008 at 06:36 PM
agreed.
she types before engaging the brain.
predictable results.
Posted by: PugetSound | December 03, 2008 at 08:09 PM