Open Happy Birthday Thread: Rupert Murdoch

The last man standing (and most profitable) in the media battles.

I am so greatful for FOXNEWS! But alas I thinks Murdoch is mo' about the money than the ideology. Hope i'm wrong.

I kind of think Geert Wilders is being fascist-like myself. His heart is in the right place, but some of his language is highly skeptical. I came to that conclusion without Saudi Money.

No one really cares about this fat-cat or his birthday.

Happy Birthday Mr Murdoch and thank you for FOX News!

Good Job!

I believe you've got him confused Jeffery Immelt.

A lot of people don't know this, but I'm the one who told him to create FOX television and FNC. True story, as far as you know.

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Loan shark: Your jokes are getting stale, Kojak. You need a fall guy. Don’t go poking in my garbage. I’m alibied.
Kojak: I know. You were out there dedicating an orphanage. Right?
Loan shark: Hey, I’m a businessman. You think I’d lend 10 Gs to a cop on inspector’s pay?
Kojak: How’d you know it was ten thousand. Come here fatso. You want two patrol cars sitting outside your fancy house on Long Island for the next six months? What would the neighbors think? So you tell me. How’s you know it was ten thousand?
Loan shark: You think you’re the only heat I talk to? It’s all over the department. All of them are getting itchy. They want to find out how to apply for Donnelly’s job.
Kojak: Who wouldn’t? Look fatso, Take a good look. You just bought yourself a lifetime supply of insomnia. Now you get your fat carcass out of here before I book you for violating the ecology.

steps to get your ex back…

Totally agree with everything you said…

Maybe if the US drilled for oil, Murdoch could buddy up to OUR oil money instead of the Saudi's?

By the way, why don't we drill for our own oil again?

When Palin gets in office, its gonna be drill baby drill! She will take no prisoners as she did in Alaska!
Has anyone ever wondered why all the minerals are off limits and owned by the Federal lands in the western states?

I guess I am just ahead of the wave. After last season I wrote it off. Like NBC's Heroes.

I don't believe I have. Without Fox News blazing the trail for partisan news organizations, there would be no MSNBC.

This just breaking from Gateway Pundit….

Junk Science Bombshell: NASA & Media Knew About Bogus Climate Data 3 Years Ago

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/junk...

Cool, got any tips for me?

Why didn't you guys do Chuck Norris' birthday yesterday??

Actually, his son who is on deck to take over the "family business" is actually a libertarian, so I think we're in good hands! Not to mention, he may have been instrumental in bringing Beck and Stossel (libertarians) to Fox.

I love the fact that Rupert Murdoch makes liberals spazz off, but Roger Ailes is the true genius behind Fox News. When he dies, it's gone.

Murdoch is a New York leftist, cocktail party liberal, who gives money to Dems all over the place.

By the way, Fox News is now partly owned by a Saudi Prince. Charles Krauthammer (smart on most topics) and Bill Kristol are little Islamo-panderers. Glenn Beck, while doing a great job conveying the importance of our Constitution, is a populist snot along with being a dhimmi.

Fox News is still light years ahead of its competitors, but people like Andrew Breitbart are the real truth soldiers.

I definitely get your concern, Drifter. However, I'm sure these kids know on what side their bread is buttered. Profit motive, though roundly demonized by the left, will reign supreme nonetheless. I'm pre-supposing based on other comments that Rupert's heirs don't necessarily hold a conservative line.

I wonder where the country would be today if it were not for FoxNews and the recently purchased Wall Street Journal offering and or presenting to us a fair and balance look at the worlds events. Happy Birthday and thank you RUPERT and keep doing it RIGHT.

Chuck Norris is going to kick some……

Happy Birthday Mr. Murdoch! The knowledge, joy, entertainment and ammo your vision has brought me in the last 14 years cannot be measured in treasure. Attacked from every angle with every literary and visual weapon conceivable hasn't dented the fort and never will. Knowledge is power and we all owe Newscorp a debt of gratitude. The United States is stronger because of the solid professionals (oh, like, say Brit Hume) he has brought to the battlefield of ideas.

Thank you Mr. Murdoch, so very much.

Not to knock Baldwin, but Captain Sully set the bar pretty fricken' high.

Thanks for ruining my appetite for the next two weeks with that pic…

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I've heard his eldest daughter, Prudence, is a big prog (regressive).. Hope for the best..

I don't think so. As a matter of fact, that could turn out to be a great thing.

Think about it, he's shown the entire world what sells, but far too many people think its him leading the unwashed masses around by the nose. If he retires, and FOX falls into ruins because of liberal bias, it would be a perfect lesson for the rest of the media. That it wasn't Murdoch himself, but giving customers what they want.

It would perfectly demonstrate it's content and bias.

Awww. Yeah that's right I forgot.

Not to knock your dreams, but Captain Sully isn't libertarian or conservative.

It broke my heart when I heard him say he wanted more government control at the airports. (sigh)

Jayne Cobb isn't the type of man who likes government control. (…then again, he didn't fight in the "war")

Thank you, Mr. Murdoch, for being so savvy as to create Fox News for the population that avoided drinking the Kool-Aid.

And even more kudos because your company just irritates the crap out of your competitors! For that, I love you even more!

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday Mr. Murdoch! Thank you for Britt Hume, Chris Wallace, Brett Baier, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly and thank you for letting Beck be Beck. Thank you for supporting great people like Vince Flynn and Brad Thor by having your people give them the air time they wouldn't get on other networks. Thank you for FOX News.

If by EOTW, you mean "end of the world", then Beck is exactly a populist. Using that type of demagoguery is a staple of populism.

His constant need to draw equivalences between Democrats and Republicans is the strongest evidence he's trying to appeal to a populist movement. There are bad Republicans, but there are NO good Democrats. By creating a sense that both of them are exactly the same, Beck can rile up anyone, and that's what he does.

Beck is a phony, who will betray the Conservative movement the second he gets a chance.

Happy Birthday. Thank you for all you do to bring the truth, fair and balanced. Love Palin as a Fox contributor, too.

Why would you cheer at that?

Being an Australian I can attest to the amount of Media moguls we seem to breed in this country. Maybe it's the pioneer spirit or possibly the basic harsh upbringing that was customary in the 30's to 40's but Rupert Murdoch who inherited his fathers solitary newspaper turned that business around to having papers in all states of the country. He then expanded into the UK buying a major paper there and shifting it from Fleet Street to a new facility on the wharf area. He then ran into a protracted fight with the Unions including Journalists who rebelled against using new technology fearing it would cut employment drastically. They were correct which was the reason the papers were losing money.
Murdoch fought the unions and won, installed his new equipment and ended up with a very profitable newspaper enterprise. In 1985 he purchased 50% of 20th Century Fox, the half held by Marc Rich (remember him?) before he skipped the country owing 100 Grand in taxes. 6 Months later he purchased the other 50% in the name of his company News Corporation.
The Biography channel has quite a good documentary on the Murdoch clan. Worth a look if you can track it own.

Conspiracy theory of the day–take it for what it's worth.

The US is giving away our oil to help pay for our debt.

I agree E.D. Hill is charming and cute..
She can have Brians Job!!

Kilmeade reminds me of that one co-worker…whose every attempt to join in the conversation produces a wince-inducing uncomfortableness, effectively killing said conversation.

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