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You haven't been paying ATTENTION. That's why you don't "see"--that wasn't a PRESIDENTIAL FUNDRAISER, capisce???
THAT's why he didn't hold fundraisers (Waaaaaah!!!! Waaaaaaaaah!!! :cry:) for "all the OTHER candidates." It was a SENATE fundraiser. Those other candidates weren't running for the Senate in NY, were they?
Murdoch is an American citizen and a NEW YORK resident. He often holds events for, and endorses, NY politicians he likes regardless of party (Koch, Spitzer, Cuomo, eg). And surprise, surprise, he sometimes supports liberal/left candidates and he's become a bit of an enviromentalist of late, consorting with the likes of Barbra Streisand and making his NEWS CORP carbon neutral.
Murdoch’s political maneuverings are closely monitored inside News Corp. Like an eighteenth-century French monarch, he is surrounded by courtiers, with numerous factions, both conservative and progressive, vying for his favor. The News Corp. conservatives include many senior figures at Fox News, the Post, and Murdoch’s British newspapers. They tend to downplay the significance of their boss’s flirtation with the Clintons, describing the Post’s sympathetic attitude to local Democrats, such as Hillary, as an inevitable reaction to the comatose state of the New York Republican Party under Governor George Pataki. In the recent Democratic primaries, the paper endorsed Eliot Spitzer for governor and Andrew Cuomo for state attorney general. Col Allan said, “Our coverage of the G.O.P. in New York shouldn’t be misunderstood as the paper twisting left in any way. We have been criticizing the New York G.O.P., and it is difficult to do that without criticizing the Governor. We’ve said he went to sleep at the wheel.”
Murdoch is scathing about Pataki. “I don’t know about George,” he said to me. “He was just lazy to start with. And then he started thinking about how to get reëlected. He was prepared to do a deal with his natural enemies, particularly the big state unions who overstaff many state functions.”
Still, some conservative News Corp. journalists think that Murdoch has gone mushy. “I don’t think Rupert is turning into a liberal—I just think he is becoming more of an establishmentarian as he gets older,” one News Corp. editor said to me. “He’s not the great rebel that he was in the eighties and nineties.”
The News Corp. progressives—they don’t like to be called liberals—are less visible in public, but they have greater access to Murdoch on a daily basis. They include his deputy Peter Chernin; the two co-chairs of Fox’s film division, Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos; and Gary Ginsberg, whom Murdoch refers to as his “ambassador to the Clinton Administration.” (Murdoch has told associates that it was Ginsberg who persuaded him to hold the fund-raiser for Hillary.)
See, it's all about MURDOCH. He's not a party loyalist. He wants what he wants, and he supports whosoever sees the world the way he (and more recently, his young wife) sees it.
And if he want to toss his money around, that's up to him. He does what he wants, and he has money to burn. I hope his wife keeps pushing him to the left, myself. It can't hurt.
You don't like the system, work to change it.
Here's some reading for you, from which the cite above was taken (read the whole thing):
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/16/061016fa_fact1?printable=true