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Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« on: September 18, 2006, 08:15:34 AM »
Why would the Australian Murdoch suddenly support a Democrat?

He's been a supporter of the Republicans and Bush for a long time, but for awhile now has dropped his support of Bush, and is behind Clinton.

Murdoch did the same thing in UK, where he owns The Sun, where he stopped supporting the Tories and got behind New Labour, once Tony Blair made some certain things within the party.

A theory is that when you look at Clinton and her real stance on a lot of foreign political issues, she is as much of a hawk as any Republican.

But the main thing that probably convinced Murdoch, is the other Clinton's (Bill) economical record as a president.

Couple that with Clinton's tough guy image (Thatcher anyone? :-X), and Murdoch has found his own Iron Lady.

The hippies on the far left are in for a big surprise when Hillary wins it though... LMFAO. Fcukers!


I, personally, think it's a done deal people, Clinton will win it.

Just need to figure out one of those corny nicknames for Clinton. Steely Hilly? Iron Lady? Das Über Lesbian?


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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2006, 08:22:04 AM »
isnt the election 2 years away?


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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2006, 08:24:01 AM »
Oh Puleaze BB. These things aren't decided by a public vote, ...it's by a private selection.
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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2006, 08:27:28 AM »
i dont follow australian politics let alone US...i just remember AE's sig line saying hillary 08 a while back

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2006, 08:33:41 AM »
Wanted to add one thing:

240 or Bust mentioned one interesting thing about Reagan. That he was likeable.

And the same thing could be said about Reagan, Kennedy, Bill Clinton and George W Bush. They all were personable, and had charisma.

Kennedy was a rock star.

Reagan was a father figure.

Bush is like a guy next door, with all his qualities and faults.

Clinton, incredibly, had all of the above.

Richard Nixon weren't a charismatic guy, he won because of his political agenda more than anything.

The one mistake that the Hillary Clinton camp could make, is to try to make her come across as likeable.

Because she is not. And everyone knows that.

She is a hard fcuker, who probably sleeps on a bed of nails. If she sleeps at all.

Much like Margaret Thatcher, she would be best off to play to her strengths, rather than to try be as folk, or to be a rockstar.

I'd love to see Hillary Clinton try some shit like interacting with people like Bill Clinton or Reagan did, that would be disasterous, and enormously funny.

Her people need to show her doing her stuff, smacking up foreign politicians or stuff like that.

But hopefully we'll still get to see some embarrassing interactions with common people. 8)

The election commercials will probably mostly be focused on her record as a tough guy.

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2006, 08:43:40 AM »
isnt the election 2 years away?



Yeah.

So we will see the announcement of Clinton's campaigning fairly soon.

The big thing is how your boy (LOL) Murdoch has stopped his support of Bush. He's backing Clinton these days.

I check out the Fox website every now and then to see how O'Reilly is becoming less and less supportive of Bush, and right now he's not openly critisising Bush, but using terms such as "the powers in Washington needs to address this" and stuff like that.

It's sort of a way to gradually phase shift those watching the O'Reilly show into more receptive for the Clinton message.

In other words, it would cause an outrage among the O'Reilly fans if he from one day to another would announce that Bush is great-Bush sucks and Hillary Clinton rules.

It's quite amazing really.

And it really shows what a piece of shit Fox News is. No journalistic integrity whatsoever.

Republican one day - Democrat 300 days later.

Propaganda for the masses. Regardless of the message Fox puts out, be it left or right, it is dangerous.

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2006, 09:42:29 AM »
Why would the Australian Murdoch suddenly support a Democrat?

He's been a supporter of the Republicans and Bush for a long time, but for awhile now has dropped his support of Bush, and is behind Clinton.

Murdoch did the same thing in UK, where he owns The Sun, where he stopped supporting the Tories and got behind New Labour, once Tony Blair made some certain things within the party.

A theory is that when you look at Clinton and her real stance on a lot of foreign political issues, she is as much of a hawk as any Republican.

But the main thing that probably convinced Murdoch, is the other Clinton's (Bill) economical record as a president.

Couple that with Clinton's tough guy image (Thatcher anyone? :-X), and Murdoch has found his own Iron Lady.

The hippies on the far left are in for a big surprise when Hillary wins it though... LMFAO. Fcukers!


I, personally, think it's a done deal people, Clinton will win it.

Just need to figure out one of those corny nicknames for Clinton. Steely Hilly? Iron Lady? Das Über Lesbian?


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Show me a source that has Murdoch supporting Hillary!

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2006, 11:18:45 AM »
Why would the Australian Murdoch suddenly support a Democrat?

He's been a supporter of the Republicans and Bush for a long time, but for awhile now has dropped his support of Bush, and is behind Clinton.

Murdoch did the same thing in UK, where he owns The Sun, where he stopped supporting the Tories and got behind New Labour, once Tony Blair made some certain things within the party.

A theory is that when you look at Clinton and her real stance on a lot of foreign political issues, she is as much of a hawk as any Republican.

But the main thing that probably convinced Murdoch, is the other Clinton's (Bill) economical record as a president.

Couple that with Clinton's tough guy image (Thatcher anyone? :-X), and Murdoch has found his own Iron Lady.

The hippies on the far left are in for a big surprise when Hillary wins it though... LMFAO. Fcukers!


I, personally, think it's a done deal people, Clinton will win it.

Just need to figure out one of those corny nicknames for Clinton. Steely Hilly? Iron Lady? Das Über Lesbian?


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Zack
The only way Clinton could win is if she runs against Rice.  I think Rice is an easy win for Hillary.  Wait, I take that back, Hillary could win against goobers like Frist.  I don't think she could beat Hagal.  I don't think she could beat McCain.  I have trouble seeing her beat Biden in the primary, unless they pull a serious media eco of some mistake.  If the media, including Fox jumps on Hillary all the way through, the media will determine the election. You may be right, they may want Hillary... I cannot imagine another candidate that would more bitterly divide America than Hillary would.  Divide and Rule and Hillary will provide them with plenty of things to divide us on while at the same time furthering the nwo agenda while we're busy bitching at eachother..

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2006, 11:23:18 AM »

The hippies on the far left are in for a big surprise when Hillary wins it though... LMFAO. Fcukers!


But actually you're wrong on this... The Hippies do not support Hillary and they do see her for what she is.  Cindy Sheehan all down that line do not support and are anti-Hillary so they know exactly what they'll get with Hillary in office.

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2006, 11:28:37 AM »
Every internet know it all (ever notice how many of those there are?) and newspaper columnist is writing columns and posts about how “Hillary is going to run” as if they are saying something insightful.  

Why don’t these keen intellects ever offer any opinion pieces on matters that actually require real thought or the distilling of disparate fact patters?  Bah!

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2006, 02:21:07 PM »
Every internet know it all (ever notice how many of those there are?) and newspaper columnist is writing columns and posts about how “Hillary is going to run” as if they are saying something insightful. 

Why don’t these keen intellects ever offer any opinion pieces on matters that actually require real thought or the distilling of disparate fact patters?  Bah!

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First off, the political agenda of Hillary Clinton is interesting, as the current president is nearing the end of his second term.

Also, the deliberate positioning of Clinton, how she's been slowly building momentum, not challenging a sitting president. I find it interesting. If you feel it's a non-issue, well, that's cool with me.

I-One: I believe that McCain would be a shoe-in as a president, if it wouldn't have been for two things:

1. He's also a Republican, and will suffer some of the impopularity of GWB.

2. He's lost once. Although he was a surprise in the primaries, him pushing GWB to a close race wasn't how the GOP had planned it, he still has a loser label tagged to him.

But without these two aspects, McCain would be my favorite against pretty much anyone that could run for president (Arnold and Bill Clinton aren't eligable).

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2006, 02:24:21 PM »
First off, the political agenda of Hillary Clinton is interesting, as the current president is nearing the end of his second term.

Also, the deliberate positioning of Clinton, how she's been slowly building momentum, not challenging a sitting president. I find it interesting. If you feel it's a non-issue, well, that's cool with me.

I-One: I believe that McCain would be a shoe-in as a president, if it wouldn't have been for two things:

1. He's also a Republican, and will suffer some of the impopularity of GWB.

2. He's lost once. Although he was a surprise in the primaries, him pushing GWB to a close race wasn't how the GOP had planned it, he still has a loser label tagged to him.

But without these two aspects, McCain would be my favorite against pretty much anyone that could run for president (Arnold and Bill Clinton aren't eligable).

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McCain will never be the Republican nominee simply because he's too liberal in his thinking!

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2006, 07:22:17 PM »
McCain will never be the Republican nominee simply because he's too liberal in his thinking!

He is more liberal than others - but if they want to WIN, they may have to choose him.

There is NO way that a Condi or a Jeb could win the general election - that'd be like runing GWB again.  Rudy?  I think you could paint him as more liberal than McCain.

Who do you think the Repubs will choose?

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2006, 07:41:46 PM »
I wouldn't be surprised if Joe Biden got the Democratic nomination and Mitt Romney (governor of Massachusetts) got the Republican nomination. John McCain doesn't have a very stable personality, and he has said a lot of controversial things that might come back to hurt him. Hillary wouldn't stand a chance against a moderate Republican. I can't see many swing voters and independents voting for her.
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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2006, 08:02:18 PM »
Mitt Romney's dad George ran for president even though he was born in Mexico. his parents were american citizens.  Don't know if the Republican party/the nation is ready to vote for a Mormon.

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2006, 08:07:31 PM »
Hillary wouldn't stand a chance against a moderate Republican. I can't see many swing voters and independents voting for her.

Funny thing is, as someone mentioned earlier, that lots of radical lefty people can't stand Hillary.

Not funny, rather... hilarious.

Her problem will be to win the nomination from the Democrats. Getting rid of Lieberman was essential for her. Now she doesn't have to fish too much to the left to beat him, she's the lone serious righty candidate in the Democratic Party.

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #16 on: September 18, 2006, 08:15:56 PM »
Funny thing is, as someone mentioned earlier, that lots of radical lefty people can't stand Hillary.

Not funny, rather... hilarious.

Her problem will be to win the nomination from the Democrats. Getting rid of Lieberman was essential for her. Now she doesn't have to fish too much to the left to beat him, she's the lone serious righty candidate in the Democratic Party.

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Obama's a moderate, and he's been making noises. I think that even though he's African-American he could make a go of it. Unfortunately, Hillary has already got a much larger war-chest than he can ever hope to raise.

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #17 on: September 18, 2006, 08:25:30 PM »
Obama's a moderate, and he's been making noises. I think that even though he's African-American he could make a go of it. Unfortunately, Hillary has already got a much larger war-chest than he can ever hope to raise.

Obama is very bright, very quick, very likable. 

However...

They'll never let him win.

Not to get too deep... but it's pretty obvious that the govt of our nation is very much influenced by those in banking and oil, personified here by the CIA.  These groups will pressure a prez to let some awful shit happen.  I see Obama as naive enough to think he can challenge these powers.

That would make him the first man since JFK to do so.  And what happened to JFK?

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #18 on: September 18, 2006, 08:34:38 PM »
Funny thing is, as someone mentioned earlier, that lots of radical lefty people can't stand Hillary.

Not funny, rather... hilarious.
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What part is funny?  That it's true...?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/13/ap/politics/mainD8I7KEN02.shtml

Cindy Sheehan, the mother who has turned her grief over her soldier son's death into a public anti-war crusade, is telling people not to support Senator Hillary Clinton. http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/10/26/antiwar_mom_nixes_hillary.php

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2005/301105warstance.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1535864/posts

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #19 on: September 18, 2006, 08:35:55 PM »
Rodham Hillary will not win any election besides her senate campaign and I base that on how low the rating are for ABC's commander-in-chief show. The best thing Lady Hillary can do is convince someone to make her the 2nd woman after Geraldino Ferraro to be the choice for vice president by the Democratic nominee IF that political party still exists in a few more future years.

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #20 on: September 18, 2006, 09:26:00 PM »
Rodham Hillary will not win any election besides her senate campaign and I base that on how low the rating are for ABC's commander-in-chief show. The best thing Lady Hillary can do is convince someone to make her the 2nd woman after Geraldino Ferraro to be the choice for vice president by the Democratic nominee IF that political party still exists in a few more future years.

I disagree.  Geena Davis had about 15 pounds and 10 years too much to be hot on that show.

You put Gina Gershon, Jennifer Gardner or Natalie Portman, and the show would have flourished.

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #21 on: September 18, 2006, 09:41:53 PM »
I disagree.  Geena Davis had about 15 pounds and 10 years too much to be hot on that show.

You put Gina Gershon, Jennifer Gardner or Natalie Portman, and the show would have flourished.

maybe we should have one of them run for President then?

Oh, and thanks for the history lesson.  It was very charming.

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #22 on: September 18, 2006, 09:51:28 PM »
maybe we should have one of them run for President then?

Oh, and thanks for the history lesson.  It was very charming.

I'd contct Gina Gershon to suggest it, but the whole restraining order thing and all...

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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #23 on: September 18, 2006, 11:38:21 PM »

Cindy Sheehan, the mother who has turned her grief over her soldier son's death into a public anti-war crusade, is telling people not to support Senator Hillary Clinton. http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/10/26/antiwar_mom_nixes_hillary.php



Sorry her son died, too bad she's too stupid to realize that her son died a hero fighting for his country....on the otherhand, to bad she's a media whore and a left-wing wackjob who is profiting from her son's death!!




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Re: Why is Rupert Murdoch (Fox Network) supporting Hillary Clinton?
« Reply #24 on: September 19, 2006, 12:17:54 AM »
Why would the Australian Murdoch suddenly support a Democrat?

He's been a supporter of the Republicans and Bush for a long time, but for awhile now has dropped his support of Bush, and is behind Clinton.

Murdoch did the same thing in UK, where he owns The Sun, where he stopped supporting the Tories and got behind New Labour, once Tony Blair made some certain things within the party.

A theory is that when you look at Clinton and her real stance on a lot of foreign political issues, she is as much of a hawk as any Republican.

But the main thing that probably convinced Murdoch, is the other Clinton's (Bill) economical record as a president.

Couple that with Clinton's tough guy image (Thatcher anyone? :-X), and Murdoch has found his own Iron Lady.

The hippies on the far left are in for a big surprise when Hillary wins it though... LMFAO. Fcukers!


I, personally, think it's a done deal people, Clinton will win it.

Just need to figure out one of those corny nicknames for Clinton. Steely Hilly? Iron Lady? Das Über Lesbian?


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interesting...But what Red state will Hillary take away from the republicans