With the reprehensible Rupert Murdoch engulfed in well-deserved scandal on the sceptred isle — a scandal that appears to be spiraling even further out of control — we cats can think of no better time than now to turn our attention to his media empire here in the U.S.
Specifically, isn't it time for some outrage over at FOX "News"?
Well, maybe not. To our amusement — or disgust; we alter between the two — FOX has barely covered the tsunami crashing over their owner. If you need more evidence that FOX is merely the U.S.-based bullhorn for Murdoch's right-wing politics, and not a real news organization, we cats can't think of better proof. At the very least, this poseur called FOX should be kicked out of the White House press room.
But we're also wondering why the Republican luminaries who draw paychecks from Murdoch are still doing so. After all, it's one thing when politicians and members of the Royal Family are phone-tapped and hacked. It's quite another when Murdoch's minions poke into the private lives of soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, or dead 13-year-olds. In the case of the murdered girl, Murdoch's hackers gave false hope to her family that she was still alive, because her voicemails were being deleted.
This is so disgusting that we cats think that coughing up a mere hairball isn't enough. It makes us want to vomit a dead rat and leave it on Rupert Murdoch's doorstep.
In light of this, we ask once again why Republicans serving as FOX "News" commentators — people who describe themselves as avatars of morality, decency, family values and tough-on-crime-ism — haven't resigned in en masse revulsion.
Why are fine, upstanding Americans like Fat Mike Huckabee, Dick Morris, Bill O'Reilly, Greta van Susteren, Sean Hannity, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, the famous quitter from Alaska —and, of course, the most wronged journalist on the face of the earth, Juan Williams — still working for Rupert Murdoch?
Could it be — do you think — that they really aren't as moral and decent and wronged as they say? That they're just a bunch of greedy opportunists looking to make a buck?
Let the drumbeat begin.
(IMAGE: Milly Dowler, victim — first of murder, then of Murdoch.)
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