Greg Stereo

Fox News Channel hates the U.S. and loves China.

Their flavor of the day, renowned douchebag Glenn Beck, is running a “documentary” right now about the horrors of communism and socialism and any other form of government in general. He just said there are only two Communist regimes in the world today – Cuba and North Korea.

I guess I was watching football on TV the day that China became a democracy.

When did the rabid right-wingers become so viciously anti-government? They’re not really libertarians, not quite, they just seem to hate authority of any kind (other than their own corporate overlords from Australia). I’m no fan of the man, but I think Rupert Murdoch must have gotten sent to the principal’s office one too many times as a kid. He’s like a modern Napoleon Bonaparte, running his tiny empire and trying to drag us all to Hell with him.

Maybe the Murdoch-ian media empire’s contempt for authority was borne out of his early, failed defense of a child-murderer:

A defining moment in Murdoch’s life was the Stuart case in Adelaide when The News began a campaign to free Max Stuart, a young Aboriginal carnival worker, who had been convicted of the murder of a small girl on a beach near Ceduna, South Australia in late 1958. Stuart had been sentenced to death by hanging. The News was openly critical of the case and investigated it extensively. The death penalty was eventually commuted to life imprisonment.

The campaign by The News raised the ire of the Premier of South Australia, Sir Thomas Playford. He established a royal commission, conducted by the state’s Chief Justice, the same judge who had passed sentence on Stuart. The outcome was a confirmation of Stuart’s guilt and a recommendation that News Ltd (of which Murdoch was managing director) and its editor be charged with nine counts of seditious libel, a form of treason based on medieval English law, and criminal libel.

Source: http://www.mediaman.com.au/profiles/murdoch.html

Wow – an Australian web site with information like this. I guess those slimy tentacles only reach so far.

Maybe Murdoch is just bitter about his China dreams not so much working out:

FOR more than 10 years, China’s potential mesmerised Rupert Murdoch. He poured more than $2 billion into the country and lost at least half of it. He spent lavishly courting the communist mandarins, and cut ethical corners. He even took a young Chinese wife, who bore him two daughters and installed a Mandarin-speaking nanny so they would grow up bicultural.

And where did it all get him? Not far, according to Bruce Dover, who served the Murdoch empire in Asia as director of business development when China was Murdoch’s big global play. “He was literally on the telephone every other day seeking news of progress,” Dover writes in his book, Rupert’s Adventures In China, to be published next week.

Murdoch described Wendi Deng, his third and much younger Chinese wife, as his “great help and adviser”, but Dover was unconvinced. He writes: “The degree to which she has been a great help is arguable. While she brought to the partnership an insight into the cultural and often complex nuances of doing business there, she had no head for the politics of the country’s opaque and evolving political structure. She had no business connections in China. She teamed up with the new stepson [James Murdoch] to initiate and advocate Chinese internet investments nearly all of which were later written off as total losses.”

Source: http://www.smh.com.au/business/murdochs-china-dream-shattered-20080125-1o77.html

Oh snap, another Australian media outlet busting on Rupert M. That has to sting. Well, at least this time he lost to that liberty of freedom, the People’s Republic of China, rather than to a court that convicted a child-killer.

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