Rupert Murdoch Says Obama Will Win
Carlsbad, CA -- Tonight at the "All Things Digital" conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch -- Chairman of News Corp, new WSJ owner, and longtime torchbearer for conservative politics -- said this about Barack Obama: "He is a rock star. It's fantastic" "I love what he is saying about education." "I don't think he will win Florida.....but he will win in Ohio and the election". "I am anxious to meet him." "I want to see if he will walk the walk."
About the presumptive Republican nominee, Murdoch said, "McCain is a friend of mine. He's a patriot. But he's unpredicatble. Doesn't seem to know much about the economy. He has been in Congress a long time, and you have to make a lot of compromises. So what's he really stand for?... I think he has a lot of problems."
Here is the video of Murdoch's appearance at the All Things Digital Conference:
Update: More on Murdoch's speech from Silicon Alley Insider.
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OBAMA WON'T WIN IF (WHEN) MCCAIN PICKS OLYMPIA SNOWE AS HIS V.P.
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So what part of Maine do you live in? Say Machias or maybe even Calais? This campaign has been a real Christer. I don't think Snow, though I have admired her, would squat for Obama.
I think Mr. Murdock, being the smart business man he is, sees the future and that is a Democrat in the White House. He knows he will have to start talking about the real news in the very near future and he might just as well make it now.
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Have you heard that Rupert Murdock has recently purchased MSNBC. That's why the corporate bias is so similar to FOX. Watch all the pols suck up to Obama, hoping he'll ask them to dance.
Miss Rosen,
I am an Obama supporter who personally feels like anyone who supports Hillary must be insane. However, after a conversation with my boyfriend - a very smart, empathetic person - he has made me see that people who support Hillary have good reasons for doing so. He says that they probably even have good reasons for why they support certain choices which, to people like me, seem wrong and/or immoral.
So I would love for you, as a Hillary supporter, to write an article explaining your take on the following. It is very hard to get a straight answer from many Hillary supporters on these manners. So please, if you could, provide me with straight answers:
- Why did Hillary's supporters agree with the original 100% stripped MI/FL ruling, including Ickes?
- Why did Hillary agree with the ruling and sign a pledge to that effect?
- If Hillary thought it was a 'no campaigning' pledge, why did she say on MI radio: "You know, it's clear this election they're having isn't going to count for anything"?
- Why did Hillary wait to protest the MI/FL rulings?
- Why did/does she want 100% of the MI delegates?
- Why does she not want to count caucuses?
- Why does she want popular vote to determine the winner, when she agreed and has stated that delegates determine the winner?
What explanation do you have for these things which allow you, as a woman of integrity, to continue supporting Hillary's
Lisa Cuputo on MSNBC, with Nora O’Donnell, also said during the month of March that the nomination was a DELEGATE race; how did it turn to be an electoral map, BIG state, popular vote, no caucus contest instead?
Also, how can you and others continue to watch the American people in the face on MSNBC, CNN and Faux News, and defend Hillary Clinton, and then turn around and expect us to take you all seriously? As far as I am concerned, a Hillary Clinton administration would start off where the bush administration currently is (-20 credibility). I would never believe anything the likes of Lanny Davis, Terry McAuliffe, Harold Ickes, Evan Bayh, Mandy Grumwald et al. have to say; are you kidding me?!?!?!?!
I would admit, you are one of the few people, along with Dee Dee Myers and Ed Rendell, to some extent, who still have some credibility, but if you all continue down this part in the coming days, you would use up your "capital"; again, like the bush administration did with his in 2004.
I'd like to agree with you except for a few factual errors.
Clinton has the popular vote.
She polls ahead of Obama, against McCain.
The president is +28%, the democratic congress +11%
Since Bittergate, Wright & the catholic padre, Obama has been getting his ass handed to him.
Sucks to be a democrat.
I understand you wanting answers I want them too, paganmist but I think you'll only get the Hillary camp talking points. If Hillarys behavior cause the Democrats to lose this election by dividing the Party then my question is what will Hillary's life be like after Nov..... answer that one.
pagan
Use some initiative. We have heard this scree before. As an Obama (paid ?) lobbyist you should do more for the money. Why has the media not given Mrs. Obama equal credit for her layout in Vogue. They cynically showed Mrs. McCain. Michelle looks very first lady in her dressy black frock.
Murdoch says Obama will win ...
Has he told Billary?
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Andrea Mitchell, of MSNBC fame, is now busy libeling Mr. Clinton. She and Mr. Balz are doing a dandy job of demolishing the possibility of a dream ticket. I wonder if they support say Neopolitanio or Sebelius?
Here is a story i want ALL of you to look at. Nancy Pelosi must be popping pills or want the dems to LOOSE BIG TIME. She proposes a NEW TAX on our retirement funds. Please google here statement and this should be enough for everyone to e - mail her office and others and tell her STUFF IT. I belive this was a IDIOT remark but she meant it. This is how Mc Cain will win for sure with this sort of remarks, then turn off Rep. and Dems. Please start donating for a bed in a mental ward for her if she continues with this nonsense. I am a big Obama supporter that is a rep as many of my friends are. Please give this loony a earful , we have been taxed enough.
Instead of Google, you may want to check out what snopes.com has to say about that. You can't believe everything you read on the Internet.
There is nothing I snopes, I just checked.
Post the link.
None of us heard it and none of us will, if you stop blogging it to everyone on your blogger list. Least said, soonest mended. Loose lips sink ships. Thanks for NOT letting me know,
If you're upset about the taxes that Democrats will have to implement, be upset with the Republicans.
When you have debt, do you pay it? If you don't, what happens?
The united states has debt. Guess who has to pay it? WE DO.
Guess how we pay it?
Taxes.
So blame the taxes on the people who made the debt. There is no way to fix our economy if we don't increase taxes, because there is no way to pay off our debts if we don't collect taxes, and there is no way to improve our economy if we don't pay back our debts.
Simple as that.
Taxes suck. Blame the Republicans.
OK? So we work until may to pay our taxes now. When do you think we ought to work till to pay our taxes? July? September maybe?
norkas, Fair - I hope once you have debunked this via snopes and other resources, you will do your very best to inform your friends and families that what they have heard is a lie.
Fox has a long and boring article about that meeting, but doesn't say a word about Obama.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008May29/0,4670,Yahoo,00.html
I can't understand why everyone (besides Fox) acts like this is a non story. My mind is on fire with the possibilities, both positive and negative about whether Murdoch is a new convert or or a trojan horse. Maybe it's a hoax and people in the news know it so it's a non-story? Enquiring minds want to know.
The link I posted just beneath this one goes into quite a bit more detail as does the video here.
Lollie, I think the reason that no one is getting terribly excited about it is because his news outlets, FOX in particular take a great deal of pride in that the news is not influenced from above, like MSNBC or CNN.
For a long time the left has insisted that Murdoch's conservative views were driving FOX. It appears that his political views don't and won't.
Devil man, that is why when Roger Ailes took over programming at Fox he cleared out anyone with liberal views. Because everyone has the same mindset at Fox, it does not matter where programming comes from. It is all smears and lies anyway.
Fox is the only cable "news" channel that has been playing the anti-Hillary comments made by a white Catholic priest at Obama's former church for like the last 24 hours. They have been debating his comments on all their pundit shows. Is the "story" really that important? Is it really a "story" at all. Of course not!!! It is simply another guilt-by-association smear attack. You guys are on the right are so easily manipulated that it is really sad!
Of course not, after Billo went batshit wild over NBC being in the tank for Obama and then his boss says Obama is going to win??
Not one of them over there is allowed to cover it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/30/rupertmurdoch.wallstreetjournal
I should have watched the video clip before I popped off in an earlier comment. I need to take a wait and see attitude. Is this a Trojan Horse? If this isn't huge news - I don't know what huge news is. I can hardly wait to see the coverage. I'll be checking all the news stations I don't watch any more, just to see. Like the way I checked in on David Gregory and after hearing his first two headlines, I could see we were on another mass distraction project and left. No guys, you don't get to decide what the top story is based on cyoa. That's not journalism. That's just cyoa. Do you think we can't tell the difference?
Anyways, huge story. I found it first at a UK site. And although it's not on the front page of Huff, at least it's here. Why are the other news sites so slow? What are they waiting for? Anyways, I don't know what to think. Murdoch sounds sincere.... but he owns fox not real news. It doesn't add up, but I want to hear him out.
Ms. Rosen -
just saw you on Hardball
Question: How is it you can make claims about the comments that have come from Obama supporters
then in the next breath you state that Ferraro's comments (or any other Clinton surrogate) cannot be attributed to Hillary Clinton?
on one hand, you're saying Clinton backers want to punish Obama because his backers are "mean"
and then you say Hillary should not be held accountable for the comments of her backers.
I don't get it.
we've all gone back to junior high---rumor, gossip and inuendo. Some people should read the novel All Hallows Eve. It's a strange book but a lot like now.
OMG What can we hope for this country when people are so partisan.That they can't
even accept a compliment from the other side.Just because a person has a different oppinion
doesn't mean that they are evil.
As was said by others earlier- people like Murdock and other corporations just pay off whomever is winning. They will try to pay off Obama too. They do not care which damn PARTY is in power.
Seeing as Rupert Murdoch is a very smart man (one could say much more but that is not my point here...) I was puzzling over what he said and why.
For a while I wondered if he was worried the race would be close, and wanted to galvanize the wingnuts to action.
However with the "What Happened" thing going on, I now consider this may be what Murdoch was talking about. That this will hurt Republicans and by extension McCain, perhaps deeply, and there's little Fox News can do about it except ignore it.
It is hard to believe that the FOX NEWS goon squad and their propaganda machine would have the audacity, or even courage, to begin painting Murdoch as some kind of left wing loon for making these statements. I smell a rat.
Fox television often has the edgiest programs on TV. The Simpsons, the Fox TV Sunday lineup, and House, all have sharp a left of center political comment. If Fox "News" didn't have a bias it would have failed. He found a niche and filled it. He is a businessman in the entertainment business. Fox "News" is an entertainment channel.
It is very troubling that Murdoch considers Obama his man in this race. Remember, Murdoch is one of the enemy.
I guess Fox News pundits will now go on the attack against Murdoch. He is fair game, even though he is their boss. Maybe O'Reilly will send his snarky producer to interview Murdoch.
Why would they attack Murdoch? If he's fair game, that seems like a good thing in journalism, isn't it?
Absolutely. The pundits should remain consistent if their core followers are going to trust them.
Were you able to post anything yesterday?
The point is, FOX doesn't hassle ANYONE over who they vote for.
They simply take a critical look at yours and all the candidates and it makes you freakin crazy when anyone says anything critical of Obama. It's as simple as that.
If I asked you to tell me Obama's worst characteristic, you'd tell me something like... he's just way too adorable!!
Murdoch *wants* Obama to win. When the republican shit really hits the fan (trapped in Iraq, high food prices, high gas prices, stalled economy, high unemployment) they will blame Obama because he can't fix it overnight. People, it took 8 years to make this mess and it will take more than one 4 year term to repair the damage. Obama will go in looking like a savior and come out looking like an old man.
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