Murdoch a psychopath, says Black

[Swagman]

THE former media magnate Conrad Black has labelled Rupert Murdoch a ''psychopath'' and compared the News Corp boss to Joseph Stalin.

Lord Black, a former owner of London's Daily Telegraph and former part-owner of Fairfax Media, spent three years in a US jail for fraud. He described Mr Murdoch as an ''astonishingly cold man''.


http://www.smh.com.au/world/murdoch-a-psychopath-says-black-20121023-283lc.html

[leveymg]

1. There must be a cell freed up for Rupert now.

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Blood in the water.

[Odin2005]

2. Takes one to know one, Conrad.

[bemildred]

3. Now that is chutzpah. nt

[ladjf]

4. I think that Murdoch is the "Wizard behind the curtain" of the global media driven propaganda

machine. nt

[leveymg]

5. I'd say Murdoch is Oz. The wizard is actually Saudi Prince al-Alwaleed who owns NewsCorp.

Follow the money.

[femrap]

6. Is that the same

Saudi Prince that owns a big chunk of Citigroup??? He's a young dude who owns a stable filled horses.

I'll go look at picture of al-Alwaleed

[leveymg]

7. Yes. Google: Kingdom Holdings. Here he is sitting on a golden throne aboard his own jumbo jet.

Kingdom Holdings is the Saudi Royal Family's equity firm. So, as its public face, he is both Oz and the Man Behind the Curtain.


Here are some other US holdings:

Its international investments include (or have included) major stakes in the following [3]

Amazon
AOL/Time Warner
Apple Inc.
Carlyle Group
Citigroup
Coca Cola
Compaq
eBay
Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts
Fairmont Hotels and Resorts
Ford
Hewlett-Packard
McDonald's
Motorola
Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts
News Corporation
PepsiCo
Priceline.com Inc
Procter & Gamble
The Walt Disney Company
Twitter[4]
LBC

The compan

[femrap]

8. I saw an interview of him

at his stables where he was all dressed up in his horsey attire. He was being asked about the new CEO at Citigroup (the one that just left...Vikam?) and he said he approved.

His attitude, body language, and words made me SICK. I would bet money that no one in his life has ever said the word, "NO" to him. What a self-entitled jerk.

I immediately called up Citibank and canceled my credit card....they kept passing me up the chain of command so someone would stop me from doing so. I finally got the manager....I said that after seeing that Saudi Prince interview, there is no way I'm going to put one cent in that asshat's pockets. The manager said, 'I totally understand.'

[leveymg]

9. He's probably no worse that any other plutocrat.

The problem is that they now own a big piece of us, and know it.

[libodem]

10. He's a psycho alright

Cold as ice. Mean as a snake. And about as trustworthy.

[midnight]

11. It was known for 40 years how he ran his business and no one did anything about it? He must of

had the goods on lots of people back then....

[Posteritatis]

12. That's certainly a hell of a thing coming from Black.

[LeftishBrit]

13. Takes one to know one...