Unka' Rupert Finally Admits That Which Was Always Obvious, Except to Those Who Willfully Chose to Deny Reality . . .

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Straight from the jackal's own mouth:

In an interview with Fortune, News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch credited Fox News with having "absolutely saved" the Republican Party, praising the network for giving "voice and hope to people who didn't like all that liberal championing thrown at them on CNN." But Fox News has not just given "voice and hope" to conservative news watchers. The network has been instrumental in helping Republicans for years by actively promoting and fundraising for GOP candidates, serving as a staging ground for numerous network employees to prep runs for office, championing Republicans' legislative goals, and systematically smearing and lying about an immeasurable number of Democrats, progressives, and any policy initiatives the network found insufficiently conservative.

During the same exchange, Murdoch reportedly bristled at the suggestion that Fox promotes the tea party, potentially at the expense of the GOP:

CNN:  Does it bother you at all, Rupert, that there is a view that Fox News has contributed in a big way to the political discontent in the U.S., degraded the political process, and maybe, in spotlighting the Tea Party, even hurt the Republican Party? 

Murdoch:  I think it has absolutely saved it. It has certainly given voice and hope to people who didn't like all that liberal championing thrown at them on CNN. By the way, we don't promote the Tea Party. That's bullshit. We recognize their existence.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/10/rupert-murdoch-is-dead-wrong-about-fox-news-pro/198835


Is that what "news" networks are in the business of Mr. Murdoch -- seeing to the salvation of their chosen political party and giving aid and comfort to that party's adherents??

The Gadfly does not ever, ever, fucking ever again want to hear any conservative, be they foe, friend or family, use the words "Fair and Balanced" in the context of speaking about the credibility of Fox "News."  FUCKING EVER!!!!!

Oh - and that line from Murdoch claiming that Fox did not promote the Tea Party.  Pure, unadulterated lying horseshit.  Go review the link above for reams of evidence to the contrary, and not only that, The Gadfly clearly recalls Fox's incessant on-air shilling for the Teabaggers all over their network in the wake of Obama's 2008 election and inaugural, because The Gadfly wrote about it on the pages of his own shitty little blog!  And that propagandizing has not ceased.  On any given day you will find Tea Party people spewing their bile in bulk all over that network's programming from dusk to dawn.

For a media tycoon, Murdoch is either very stupid to not know that just about every thing they have put out over the public airwaves in the past decade has been documented (videotaped) for posterity, or his cynicism as to just how blindly ignorant and uninformed that his viewers are, is so deep that he just does not give a shit.  Either way, it is a glaring reflection of his obviously unsavory and deceitful personal character, and if conservatives are of the belief that a man who would lie so blatantly about something so easily provable is the type of individual they wish to throw their movement's lot in with, then it stands to reason that it also speaks dubious volumes about the integrity and motives of the people behind that movement.



----TFG