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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2013 1:05:20 GMT -5
He sure be paying lot of alimony, He must like weird Al song! Alimony should be outlawed! Why should a person pay for his or her lazy ex? they should get a F*cking job! One you are divorced you should just go your separate ways thats it, you do your own thing, I'll do my own thing!
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Post by jdredd on Jul 16, 2014 10:27:38 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Jul 16, 2014 23:47:03 GMT -5
www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/16/time-warner-rupert-murdoch_n_5593340.html"NEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc made an audacious offer for Time Warner Inc that if it succeeds would transform the American media landscape and cement the 83-year-old's status as the most powerful magnate in U.S. media and entertainment. While Time Warner, whose assets include the HBO cable channel and the Warner Bros movie studio, rejected the $80 billion bid, Murdoch is unlikely to abandon the pursuit and has the "disciplined determination" to get the deal done, people close to the situation said. Investors expect he will eventually raise the offer and increase the cash component - 40 percent - to win the prize. Murdoch's proposal, fresh on the heels of his high-profile divorce and a damaging phone-hacking scandal that involved his British tabloids, is aggressively bold even for a media mogul whose ambitions are legendary." Is it a good idea for one individual to have this much power? Do we need a Capitalist Joseph Stalin?
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Post by jdredd on Jul 18, 2014 21:50:57 GMT -5
www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/18/us-timewarner-fox-tribune-idUSKBN0FN2CB20140718"(Reuters) - Twenty-First Century Fox cannot buy publisher Tribune Co or its Los Angeles Times newspaper, Fox Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch wrote on Twitter on Friday, citing U.S. laws on media ownership. "Sorry can't buy Trib group or LA Times - cross-ownership laws from another age still in place," said tweets attributed to Murdoch. Fox earlier this week revealed it had made a roughly $80 billion bid for Time Warner Inc that was rebuffed." Awwwww...what a whiner. I doubt these laws are older than he is.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 6, 2014 2:07:13 GMT -5
www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/us-time-warner-fox-idUSKBN0G529X20140806"(Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox (FOXA.O) decided to pull its $80 billion offer to buy Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) on Tuesday, abandoning plans to create one of the world's largest media conglomerates. The surprise announcement appeared to cut short what many investors had viewed as an inevitable battle of attrition over a deal that would have joined two of Hollywood's biggest studios and TV networks from TNT to Fox News." Awww, too bad, megalomaniac fossil Murdoch is thwarted from acquiring another propaganda outlet. Maybe he didn't sacrifice enough babies to Satan last year.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 22, 2014 16:27:52 GMT -5
I was listening to Murdoch toady Sean Hannity today, cheerleading for a more vigorous war on ISIS, of course. Does that guy ever take a breath? Not only that, he's always interrupting his guests to run down his list of cliche talking points for the 27,000th time. You'd think it would be hard having to rouse an apathetic public for endless war on the expense issue alone, but I guess we can keep borrowing money from Murdoch's banker pals to pay for it.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 9, 2014 12:38:12 GMT -5
I occasionally buy Murdoch's propaganda rag, the Wall Street Journal, to see what's on his senile mind. Today he is drumbeating for two wars, one against ISIS, and another against Russia. The Murdoch Minion writing about Russia spouts the usual cliches for confronting Russia, but what I found amusing is how even though he is trying to drum up a consensus for an anti-Putin Crusade, he takes the time to ridicule liberals:
"Right now, fortune for Putin comes, first, in the shape of Barack Obama. The Russian was bound to see the American President as the classic self-infatuated liberal, half as clever and twice as weak as he imagines himself to be."
Golly gosh, you've got me convinced, amigo. I feel so ashamed. Then again, maybe the writer is only half as clever as he imagines himself to be. But as I often say, it's not me he has to convince because he can't, it's the twenty-somethings that will have to sacrifice their blood he has to get on the war bandwagon. Will ancient geezer Murdoch be able to win over gullible Millennials with his bloody 19th century perspectives? Only time will tell.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 29, 2014 19:21:38 GMT -5
www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-rupert-murdoch-pay-29-2-million-20140929-story.html"Media mogul Rupert Murdoch got a slight bump in overall pay for fiscal 2014. Murdoch's total compensation for his role as 21st Century Fox's chairman and chief executive rose to $29.2 million for the 12 months that ended June 30. That's up about 1% from the prior year, when Murdoch, now 83, received $28.9 million. 21st Century Fox disclosed its top executives' compensation on Monday in a regulatory filing for the fiscal year that ended about a year after it separated from News Corp." That brings up that simplistic philosophical question: Why do bad guys prosper? The simplest answer of course is badness is in the eye of the beholder. But it might be fun watching his heirs fight over his wealth when he FINALLY bites the big one, if I'm still around.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 1, 2014 1:32:39 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/01/rupert-murdoch-white-actors-exodus-gods-kings"Rupert Murdoch has defended the decision to cast white actors in the lead roles in Ridley Scott’s new Egypt-based film Exodus: Gods and Kings by claiming that all of the Egyptians he knows are white. In a tweet, the Australian media mogul, whose 20th Century Fox firm is the film’s distributor, wrote: “Moses film attacked on Twitter for all white cast. Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.” After he was heavily criticised by other users of the site, he added: “Everybody-attacks last tweet. Of course Egyptians are Middle Eastern, but far from black. They treated blacks as slaves.” "His comments come after director Ridley Scott attributed the casting decisions to a need to attract financial backing. “I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such. I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up,” he told Variety." Rupert lies, Ridley spills the beans. Sad that Ridley is a Murdoch minion, though.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 29, 2014 1:13:15 GMT -5
So I'm in my local 7/11 and I see a copy of the "New York Post" for sale. Why, I don't know. Except this time Murdoch got my $2.75 because the cover was a picture of NYC cops turning their back on their mayor's image on a big screen TV outside of the memorial to the two slain cops with the headline "To Serve and Reject". Pretty lurid stuff, even for Murdoch's lurid NYP. Inside was worse, with 6 pages of articles having a banner on top that said "War on Cops". But of course, the pages after that were filled with celebrity gossip and the second half of the 100 page paper was sports, sports, sports, so what did I expect? Another clue to the state of American "culture".
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Post by jdredd on Jan 13, 2015 3:03:29 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-30780965"Are all Muslims responsible for the "growing jihadist cancer"? That's what a tweet by Rupert Murdoch seemed to argue - and so the debate began. Online, a great deal of the response to the Australian-American News Corp chief executive was anger. His tweet last week suggested that even peaceful Muslims must "recognise and destroy their growing jihadist cancer" and that until they did they "must be held responsible". He had posted this in the wake of the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in France." Like we didn't know from Fox News what the geezer thinks. But read the tweets. In the first one he says "MAYBE most Moslems are peaceful". And in the second one he say "Political correctness makes for denial...". Frankly, there are lots of things I deny, the first being that Rupert is not a religious bigot.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 1, 2018 3:56:33 GMT -5
I think I will switch to Dolphie's thread on Murdoch, since my "Rupert Murdoch's Last Days" thread was started in 2009 and he's still around.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 29, 2019 16:48:45 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/nyregion/yemeni-bodegas-ny-post-boycott.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=New%20York"The Post cover said, “Here’s your something. 2,977 people dead by terrorism,” a jibe at Ms. Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, in response to a comment that she made about the Sept. 11 attacks that her supporters have said was misconstrued. The Yemeni-Americans bodega owners expressed concern that the provocative imagery of the World Trade Centers in flames could trigger violence against Muslim-Americans in New York — a fear they say has been more pronounced in the community since Mr. Trump was elected. "They are propagating hate and they don't care what the outcome is, they don't realize the magnitude of the hate they are spreading," said Husam Kaid, 19, who works part time at his family’s bodega in Midtown. Still, the Yemeni-American bodega owners are not united over using their economic power to boycott The Post. Some said they were concerned that Yemeni-Americans could face repercussions for becoming the face of protest against a conservative news outlet owned by Rupert Murdoch." What moron would read Murdoch's rotten rag anyway? And why they even sell it here in my town is a mystery to me.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 25, 2019 20:17:09 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/business/steve-dunleavy-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=ObituariesMr. Dunleavy was hired in 1967 to write for Murdoch papers in Britain and Australia. He was named Star’s news editor when it was launched in 1974. His columns in Star typically echoed the company’s conservative line, so much so that they earned him the “American of the Year” award from the right-wing John Birch Society — even though he was not a United States citizen and never became one. For all his rakishness, Mr. Dunleavy won the affection and even the respect, sometimes begrudging, of many colleagues. One more dead rotten old white guy. Will enough of these get put six feet under to make a difference in 2020? I still claim it was right-wing media that divided America so badly. If you think that's a bad thing. So I wonder when Satan is coming for Murdoch's soul?
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Post by jdredd on Jun 3, 2020 13:03:50 GMT -5
Murdoch's WSJ's response to what is going on is nothing if not predictable. In today's opinion page, one column is titled "The Myth of Systematic Police Racism", while a neighboring column is titled "Hong Kong Sanctions with Teeth". In other words, pay no attention to Police misconduct, pay attention to Chinese Commie misconduct. Doesn't seem to me they would get to far with Millennials this way, even the few who pay attention to a right-wing rag like the WSJ, but who knows?
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