BREAKING! Obama in bed with Rupert Murdoch

The New York Post just endorsed Barack Obama.  In blog talk that means that Obama is now in bed with Rupert Murdoch.  Did Murdoch feel that Obama is more likely to be "nice" to corporations?

I'll add more as news as it comes in.  I hope the elite bloggers will get to the bottom of this.  Surely we can't have all these bloggers supporting the Murdoch guy.  Will kos and Jerome etc... make a concerted effort to make Clinton the darling of the disgruntled keyboard commandos?  Let's hope so or the movement could be doomed.



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Obama/Murdoch2008 (2.00 / 3)

that just ain't right!  :(


ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 04:44:56 PM EST

Re: BREAKING! Obama in bed with Rupert Murdoch (2.00 / 1)

Murdoch endorsed Obama!

See how that works, Obama supporters...


Restore America's Strength.
by RJEvans on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 04:45:35 PM EST

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Murdoch luuuuuuuuuuuvs Obama.  I hear they vacation together.


ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 04:58:16 PM EST
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Hmmm, guess the talking point that Hillary and Rupert are joined at the hip can't be repeated any more (Ha - as if that will stop it from being thrown around)!


by Shazone on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 04:49:23 PM EST

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Really....

You are a tool.

Whoa.

The New York Post, Rupert Murdoch's New York tabloid, just endorsed Barack Obama.

Obama represents a fresh start.

His opponent, and her husband, stand for déjà vu all over again - a return to the opportunistic, scandal-scarred, morally muddled years of the almost infinitely self-indulgent Clinton co-presidency.

Does America really want to go through all that once again?

It will - if Sen. Clinton becomes president.

That much has become painfully apparent.

Bill Clinton's thuggishly self-centered campaign antics conjure so many bad, sad memories that it's hard to know where to begin.

Suffice it to say that his Peck's-Bad-Boy smirk - the Clinton trademark - wore thin a very long time ago.

Far more to the point, Sen. Clinton could have reined him in at any time. But she chose not to - which tells the nation all it needs to know about what a Clinton II presidency would be like.

So much for the Clintons'  years of courtship (and my years of reporting on it) of the media tycoon, who just took a rather major political risk: If Clinton, whom the Post endorsed for Senate last year, loses, she's still Murdoch's home-state Senator.

Also, courting Murdoch was, particularly, a Bill Clinton project. So much for that.

If anybody has been in bed with Murdoch, its HRC.
Trying to compare the two is ludicrous, seeing as how Obama(and Edwards) were the only ones to shut him out.


by chicagogene on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 04:49:44 PM EST

I am not the tool, Obama is (2.00 / 2)

he's the tool of Rupert Murdoch.  Perhaps Ruppy figured out he was not going to get what he wanted from Hillary.

Obama/Murdoch2008


ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:02:08 PM EST
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Re: I am not the tool, Obama is (none / 0)

What are you, seven?

There is only 1 candidate who has given AND raised money Rupert Murdoch has given money to...

ANSWER IS: HIllary

Congrats, tool.


by chicagogene on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:08:09 PM EST
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no no no, how many times do I have to explain this (2.00 / 1)

yes Rupert raised money for Hillary.  And then he must have realized that she was not going to be his flunky and he endorsed Obama.  They probably had a secret meeting.
That makes Obama, not me, the tool.... the tool of Murdoch.  

ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:22:22 PM EST
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Re: no no no, how many times do I have to explain (none / 0)

Right, because that was such a great endorsement. It was an obvious hit piece disguised (thinly) as an endorsement. But you would have to read past the headline to see that.


by JoeCoaster on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:35:05 PM EST
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Profiles in Maturity (none / 0)

Could ya'll call each other a tool a few more times?  I think it would really raise the level of discourse around here.  Good job!


by HSTruman on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 07:10:02 PM EST
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We need to put together a list of conservative rags supporting Obama-like the now famous Reno Journal.  Just as Rudy proclaimed that the NY Times endorsement for a Republican would be a curse the same is true for these trash tabloids that spew misinformation and ignorance.  Interesting that Rush Limbaugh and the gang are being very kind to Obama right now- Don't throw us in the Obama briar patch!  


by Menemshasunset on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 04:51:20 PM EST

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they so want him to be the nominee.  But now that the big kahuna Ruppy has endorsed him, they might have to rethink that great Rovian strategy of theirs.


ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:05:02 PM EST
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Re: BREAKING! Obama in bed with Rupert Murdoch (none / 0)

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060116& amp;s=smith011606

For her part, Clinton hasn't been to Hayman Island yet, but she did lunch with Murdoch--a man who did as much as anyone to drive the sex scandal that almost undid her husband--at his company's Midtown tower, according to one person who was at the meeting. "Senator Clinton respects [Murdoch] and thinks he is smart and effective," Reines said last summer. Personal diplomacy, however, is the true calling of the senator's husband, who has done everything from touring the Post's newsroom to recording a birthday tribute to Fox News chief Roger Ailes. He also recruited Murdoch as one of the small handful of business executives participating in his "Global Initiative," a sui generis foreign policy conference in New York in September. Seated in a set of low white armchairs, the former president interviewed Murdoch, along with Sony's Sir Howard Stringer and Time Warner's Richard Parsons, about the future of global media. After the panel ended (late, of course), Clinton and Murdoch chatted in a corner, one's hand on the other's arm, while admirers, including a largely ignored Brad Pitt, tried to get close to the two men.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/0 9/politics/main1600694.shtml

Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch will host a fundraiser for liberal New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, the Financial Times reports.

The mating ritual of the unlikely allies has been under way for months. Clinton set political tongues to wagging last month by attending a Washington party celebrating the 10th anniversary of Fox News, the cable news channel owned by Murdoch.

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So even her friends hate her. I have never agreed with the Post until today. The disgust towards another Clinton presidency is bipartisan!


by highgrade on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 04:55:35 PM EST

yup (none / 0)

Obama is not the ass kissing corporate suck up working for conservative endorsements.  Hillary pissed off Ruppy by, I don't know, not being right wing enough or something.


ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:07:31 PM EST
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is now (none / 0)


ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:08:03 PM EST
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Re: is now (none / 0)

you had it right the first time..lol.


by JoeCoaster on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:17:55 PM EST
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Yup (none / 0)

I guess reinforcing the myth of the Reagan years is worth something after all. A penny's worth of lukewarm support by Murdoch.  


by MOBlue on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 06:29:55 PM EST
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Re: BREAKING! Obama in bed with Rupert Murdoch (none / 0)

They are usually giving away the Post for free on my way to work, but I don't bother because it's not worth the price.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 04:56:05 PM EST

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really, and then you just have to recycle it.


ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:08:53 PM EST
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Murdoch raises money for Hillary (none / 0)

He held a fund raiser for her when she ran for congress and has giving to the current campaign.  
The Post probably endorced Obama because it wants the liberals to support Hillary - because they believe McCain will beat Hillary.
Listening comes first
by Moonwood on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 04:57:18 PM EST

lol (2.00 / 1)

yes, reverse reverse psychology....

nah, I think they figured out that Barry is a better bet to be Zombie Reagan than the republican candidates.


ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:12:28 PM EST
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Mollie (none / 0)

I think you are losing it.  Your comments don't make any sense.  Take a deep breath and leave the computer and take a nap.


Listening comes first
by Moonwood on Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 11:06:38 AM EST
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give me a BREAK (none / 0)

That is not an endorsement in any sense of the word.  It was an opportunity bash Obama and Hillary. Real Democrats would realize that.


by JoeCoaster on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:03:34 PM EST

Joe if I sent you 20 dollars (2.00 / 1)

could you buy yourself a sarcasm attachment for that literal mind of yours?


ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:28:09 PM EST
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Re: Please, no photos.. the image (2.00 / 1)

actually I was thinking of doing a photo-shop of Obama with a Reagan hair-do. lol


ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:30:54 PM EST

What's funny Mollie (2.00 / 1)

is that if the Post had endorsed Hillary, all hell would have broken loose. There would have been 10 diaries about it. Also the story would have been front page on HuffPo, OpenLeft and KOS.

Obama supporters as such hypocrites.


by lonnette33 on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:34:23 PM EST

Re: What's funny Mollie (none / 0)

No, Obama supporters would have read past the headline and saw it for what it was (a badly written hit piece).

The hypocrites are the ones using Right Wing sources against fellow Democrats.

BTW it is on the front page of HuffPost.


by JoeCoaster on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:41:26 PM EST
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Re: What's funny Mollie (2.00 / 1)

Spare us the fucking melodrama.


by lonnette33 on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:48:17 PM EST
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Re: What's funny Mollie (none / 0)

Have you taken a look at the diaries on MYDD?  There are 10 attack pieces against Obama for every anti-Hillary diary.  And when the anti-Hillary stuff goes up, half of the Obama people denounce it.  


by HSTruman on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 07:12:00 PM EST
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Re: What's funny Mollie (none / 0)

There's plenty of anti-Hillary diaries on KOS, TPM, OpenLeft, FireDogLake, Democratic Underground-I could go on and on. But why bother.


by lonnette33 on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 07:53:29 PM EST
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