Back in May, News Corp. Chairman/CEO Rupert Murdoch and his wife donated $10,000 each to John Kasich’s campaign. Shortly after that, News Corp. gave $1 million to the Republican Governors’ Association.
In yesterday’s Politico, Murdoch admitted that he had his company’s PAC make the donation solely to help out John Kasich. When asked if he ever considered how such an one-sided partisan donation could affect Fox News’ credibility, he said:
“It doesn’t reflect on Fox News,” he said. “It had nothing to do with Fox News. The RGA [gift] was actually [a result of] my friendship with John [...]
Full Story... →Doubling down on the Fox superstar, eh Rupert?
The funniest part of this for me is when I first read it at HuffPo they included Murdoch’s quote as “On the racist thing, that caused a [unintelligible],” Murdoch said in an interview with his Sky News Australia over the weekend.”
“Unintelligible?”, I thought. I bet I can figure it out. I’ve watched this damned video at least 10 times now and I have no fucking clue what the hell Rupert is saying there. That caused a what??? LOL
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