Murdoch Desperately Building Firebreaks - Honk if you think Ailes & Fox News Used Same Tactics!

[Vinnie From Indy]

It is highly likely that the only word running through Murdoch's head right now is "containment". There is no doubt that the closing of the News and Observer is hasty attempt at building a firebreak to keep the hacking scandal from widening and consuming all that Murdoch has built. This scandal has limped and loped along for almost three years. For Murdoch, that is very bad news. His minions tried very hard to contain and kill the story over the last three years. As long it was only Hugh Grant and other celebrities their containment efforts seemed to work. Now that there is proof that Murdoch's employees hackd the phones of dead soldiers and missing, murdered children all bets are off.

For me the more interesting aspect of the Murdoch scandal is the probablility that his American based FOX News enagaged in the same practices. Being a cynic, I cannot believe that the American based FOX Networks would NOT have copied their British colleagues success at breaking stories by illegal means. I wonder if there are a few "private investigators" in the US that are scared shitless by this expanding scandal. They should be! With friends like Dick Cheney and BushCo., these guys should remember that dead men tell no tales.

On the other hand, what is the big deal? Cheney and BushCo have built an NSA that currently is recording each and every American phone call and email since shortly after 9/11.

[MADem]

1. HONK!!! Honk honk honk honk honk!!! nt

[Aerows]

6. OMG

OT - but that .gif is hilarious :D

[MADem]

19. I like it--it looks like my old cat! nt

[Kingofalldems]

2. Kick and Rec one time for the teabaggers

[Nothing Without Hope]

3. That's only one of the reasons for illegal info hacking

I still believe maintaining a highly active blackmail network to control congressional members, judges, and other important people has been in place for a long time. Handing off juicy lead stories to the poodle press is just one side of it, though a very ugly and highly illegal one.

Yes, Honk, Honk, Honk!

K & R

[bigmonkey]

8. Perfectly possible there's such an network.

In addition, it explains some of the hysteria around some social issues. Too much tolerance would upset the net of blackmail and distortion. Imagine if a politician were threatened with being revealed as gay, for instance, and they could just say "So what?"

[Nothing Without Hope]

12. Yes, exactly.

And every once in a while they bring down an inconvenient, expendable, or disobedient politician or other public figure with suddenly available scandalous info, just to keep all the others in line.

Oh yes, an open, calm and human view of LGBT issues would definitely put a dent in their blackmail portfolios for some target individuals. But there are many others, I"d bet, who have been documented in compromising situations with prostitutes, or simply other women than their wives. Or documented taking funds interpretable as bribes or payola. Or so many other things. I am convinced that this has been going on for a long time and is a major tool for twisting votes and other support as the puppetmasters desire.

[bigmonkey]

13. This is also one way of explaining the Bush tendency to hire the creepy people they do.

People with a compromised past are more easily controlled - honorable, decent people are dangerous to a twisted system based on bribery/extortion.

[Nothing Without Hope]

15. I do believe we've got the same vision of this.

I also strongly suspect entrapment strategies are used to gather the incriminating information. After all, the recorders have to be rolling at the right time.

Good wishes for a pleasant night.

[Enthusiast]

4. Beep beep!....nt

[amborin]

5. kr

[madokie]

7. Honk, honk, honk, honk, honk and on and on

No doubt in my mind that they have

[Octafish]

9. Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!

[KittyWampus]

10. BEEP BEEP, You Bet Your ASS!

[Rex]

11. Of course they did! Remember that The Rupert was BFF with the Bush administration.

and THEY were having a real blast breaking the law and wiretapping people (with AT&T's complete approval) so you KNOWS the shit here is a zillion times worse then in the UK! Now, will the M$M play ball and report on the scandal 24/7 or bury it to protect one of their own? Option 2 is my bet.

[krispos42]

14. BLAAAAAAAAT!!

[donheld]

16. HOOOOONK

[Snoutport]

17. AAAAAAOOOOOOOOOGA!

[crikkett]

18. I thought FOX News was simply a Mockingbird project.

..and that is why Cheney liked it so much.

Interesting to consider that they would "gather news" to "report."