Fox Owner Murdoch Mobbed While Arriving for Parliament Testimony
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LONDON (AP) – Rupert Murdoch’s car was mobbed by photographers Tuesday as he arrived for a grilling from U.K. lawmakers about the phone hacking scandal that has swept from his media empire through the London police and even to the prime minister’s office.
Murdoch, his son James and the media mogul’s former U.K. newspaper chief, Rebekah Brooks, were all to be questioned at the hotly anticipated hearing. The elder Murdoch’s Range Rover was surrounded as he arrived at the Houses of Parliament three hours early, and it quickly drove off. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had come back and gone through another entrance.
Politicians will be seeking more details about the scale of criminality at Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid, while the Murdochs will try to avoid incriminating themselves or doing more harm to their business without misleading Parliament, which is a crime.
Lawmakers are also holding a separate hearing to question London police about reports that officers took bribes from journalists to provide inside information for tabloid scoops and to ask why the force decided to shut down an earlier phone hacking probe after charging only two people.
Detectives reopened the case earlier this year and are looking at a potential 3,700 victims.
London’s Metropolitan Police force said Tuesday it had asked watchdog to investigate its head of public affairs over the scandal – the fifth senior police official being investigated. The Independent Police Complaints Commission will look at Dick Fedorcio’s role in hiring a former News of the World executive as an adviser to the police.
Fedorcio also was to be questioned by lawmakers Tuesday, along with police chief Paul Stephenson and assistant commissioner John Yates, who both resigned over allegations of too-close ties to Murdoch journalists.
Stephenson began his testimony with a defense of his record, saying he resigned because the stories and allegations were becoming a distraction from his job.
He was asked about his relationship with Neil Wallis, a former executive editor who was arrested last week.
Stephenson said he had “no reason to connect Wallis with phone hacking” when he was hired for the part-time job in 2009.
He said now that the scale of phone hacking at the paper has emerged, it’s “embarrassing” that Wallis worked for the police.
Stephenson announced his resignation Sunday.
It was the appearance by the Murdochs and Brooks that was drawing huge public interest.
Members of the public and journalists lined up hours ahead of time in hope of a spot in the small committee room, which holds about 40 people. More will be able to watch in an overspill room, and Britain’s TV news channels are anticipating high ratings for the appearance.
Prime Minister David Cameron cut short a visit to Africa and is expected to return to Britain for an emergency session Wednesday of Parliament on the scandal.
A former News of the World reporter, Sean Hoare, who helped blow the whistle on the scandal, was found dead Monday in his home. Police said the death was “unexplained” but is not being treated as suspicious. A post-mortem was being conducted Tuesday. Hoare was in his late forties.
Brooks’ spokesman, David Wilson, said police had been handed a bag containing a laptop and papers that belong to her husband, former racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks. Wilson said the bag did not contain anything related to the phone hacking scandal and he expected police to return it soon.
The bag was found dumped in an underground parking lot near the couple’s home on Monday, but it was unclear how exactly it got there. Wilson said Tuesday that a friend of Charlie Brooks had meant to drop the bag off, but he would say only he left it in the “wrong place.”
Murdoch shut down the News of the World tabloid that Brooks once edited after it was accused of hacking into the voice mail of celebrities, politicians, other journalists and even murder victims. Still, the closure has done little to end a string of revelations about the murky ties between British politics and the country’s tabloid media.
The scandal has prompted the resignation and subsequent arrest of Brooks and the resignation of Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton, sunk Murdoch’s dream of taking full control of lucrative satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting and raised questions about his ability to keep control of his global media empire.
Rupert Murdoch is eager to stop the crisis from spreading to the United States, where many of his most lucrative assets – including the Fox TV network, 20th Century Fox film studio, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post – are based.
In New York, News Corp. appointed commercial lawyer Anthony Grabiner to run its Management and Standards Committee, which will deal with the scandal. But News Corp. board member Thomas Perkins told The Associated Press that the 80-year-old Murdoch has the full support of the company’s board of directors, and it was not considering elevating Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey to replace Murdoch as CEO of News Corp.
News Corp.’s widely traded Class A shares fell 68 cents to $14.97 Monday – down 17 percent since the scandal reignited on July 4.
Britain’s Independent Police Complaints Commission also is looking into the phone hacking and police bribery claims, including one that Yates inappropriately helped get a job for the daughter of a former News of the World executive editor, Neil Wallis. Wallis, who was hired as a PR consultant to the police, has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications.
London police also confirmed that they once employed a second former News of the World employee besides Wallis. Alex Marunchak had been employed as a Ukrainian language interpreter with access to highly sensitive police information between 1980 and 2000, the Metropolitan Police said.
The police force said it recognized “that this may cause concern and that some professions may be incompatible with the role of an interpreter,” adding that the matter will be looked into.
Meanwhile, Internet hackers took aim at Murdoch late Monday, defacing the sites of his other U.K. tabloid, The Sun, and shutting down website of The Times of London. Visitors to The Sun website were redirected to a page featuring a story saying Murdoch’s dead body had been found in his garden.
Internet hacking collective Lulz Security took responsibility for that hacking attack via Twitter, calling it a successful part of “Murdoch Meltdown Monday.”
Lulz Security, which has previously claimed hacks on major entertainment companies, FBI partner organizations and the CIA, hinted that more was yet to come, saying “This is only the beginning.”
It later took credit for shutting down News International’s corporate website. Another hacking collective known as Anonymous claimed the cyberattack on The Times’ website.
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Danica Kirka and Bob Barr contributed to this report.
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Comments (85)
BrerRabbit
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:58pmThis is being sooooo overblown! George Soros must be salivating!
Report Post »JD Carp
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:44pmThe folks at CNN and New York Times are absolutely orgasmic over the prospect of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal being raked over the coals by Parliament. This is probably the first time the staffs of these liberal bastions of journalism have veer prayed en-mass.
Report Post »jrcess
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:12pmScrew the English. All they have managed to do is drag us into two major world wars.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:31pmI always thought they were Japanese planes at Pearl Harbour – still you know best.
Report Post »Lawlcat001
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 1:35pmbazinga^
Report Post »cntrlfrk
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:05pmWhen will Obama be questioned about ‘Fast and Furious’???
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Report Post »llotus
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:04pmbaikonur……can I call you….baiky? They call spiderman….Spidey. Arrivederci Baiky.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:58pmUnder colonialism followed by american backed dictators and now invasion and occupation they suffer. In terms of culture[precolonial divisions] i can’t say that their culture/religion makes them less fulfilled then we are.man does not live by bread alone[thgough scientic progress is a good thing for our well being,muslims were never anti-science]I do know that living well on earth does not correlate to being pleasing to God and to doing His will.They do have a rich literary and poetic tradition and music and dance .They have wonderful food and a culture that suited their environment.They were deeply religious. What do we call living well;after a while even the biggest mansion is just 4 walls!.By the way their architecture was not huts but beautiful contructs[arches] which were used by europeans.You as a manipulated gull only see and know what the genocidal media exposes you to. They never expose you to muslim reality that is not about the ongoing conflicts.This is deliberate of course and you fall for it hook.line and sinker.Oh they also had the 3 religions living together and today if truth be told Jews from arab countries now in israel miss their arab homelands and its culture which is also theirs.You’re an ignorant man and an ugly american for being willfully and maliciously ignorant.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:42amEveryone knows that the left wing nuts have vowed to destroy Fox. They did the same to G.B. There are some things that cant be destroyed, good will always prevail over evil. Lotus.
Report Post »Paradigmm
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:50amYeah, it was the left who hacked the phones of celebrities, politicos, royal family members and so on. It was the left who hired private investigators to get medical records of their victims. It’s all the left fault right? The fact the people like you still believe what FOX says and even defends this type of behavior just shows the strength of the kool aide.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:55amPoolikaid………I dont even like coolaid. your the coolaid drinker. Fox has to be pretty darn fair and balanced to have juan,geraldo and combs on it. Lotus.
Report Post »Paradigmm
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:05pmSlurp it up Llotus, Rupert is making another pitcher. Just make sure you don’t give him your cell phone number!
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:40amI support Fox because even if they have gotten mixed up in some scandel that scandal is tiny in comparison to the other news media. I would’t veiw MSNBC or any of those other for love or money
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:47am@Gypsy123
Report Post »Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:40am
‘I support Fox because even if they have gotten mixed up in some scandel that scandal is tiny in comparison to the other news media’
***********
Any other media beng investigated by police departmnents internationally?
Jenny Lind
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:27pmThey should be.
Report Post »ClockKing
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:17amZombie Jesus needs to go the way of all zombies.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 1:22pmmaybe obama will find a way to dispose of it humanely when it is no longer needed by soros to pollute conservative websites.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:43amLots of Beckbots are confused why the Murdoch scandal should arouse any reaction on their part or affect their perception of the world.
This is why, amoeba:
Because the press supposedly represents every man, the common people’s interests against much more powerful concerns, such as big business and government, its position in the world is legally respected and also held to a high standard.
Fox News is a subsidiary of News Corp. News Corp has now been implicated (and admitted to the wrongdoing) to unethical, despicable, ghoulish practices that undermine the trust between a citizen and the media. Full Page apologies in every British newspaper from Murdoch have been posted over the weekend.
The public’s trust in this corporation has been shown to be misplaced. This corporation takes advantage of the very people it purports to serve. The Press is supposed to protect an average citizen from interests that are much more powerful and who take advantage of the little man.
But not Murdoch’s press. It was not digging up information on important news or protecting the little man, but instead was in bed with high level politicians (helping with Cameron’s election), while also hacking a dead 13-year old girl’s cell phone just to sell more newspaper copies to people who trust them that this is REAL news.
Murdoch’s organization, and its affiliates, including Fox, can no longer be trusted to deliver honest news and information, because of this case. Now do you get it?
Report Post »cntrlfrk
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:52amSorry, but FOX has not been implicated in anything, except by left-wing ******** like yourself.
FAIL.
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Report Post »llotus
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:38ambaikonur……..glad to see you are OK. was worried….thought you were on the floatilla. Stay safe and keep your feet dry and never spit into the wind. Never, ever, spit into the wind. Lotus.
Report Post »ObserverMI
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:50pmYou believe that is the ‘only’ things reported on? Then your bias and intellectually dishonest.
Report Post »As well, ‘many’ if not ‘most’ of the papers there participate in the same practices. Yet you only focus on this one when there are others.
Adding, it’s a common practice by most all the papers there in the U.K. Education I suggest.
Lastly, there are ‘many’ companies under Murdoch, over 57,000 employees, to expect the CEO to know of every action of everyone…. ridiculous.
Wise up.
OurFoundingFather
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:37amMr. Murdoch my support is behind both of you to the very end of this hurdle – The Fox station is on 80% of the time the TV is on in my home – I cannot imagine a media outlet alternative.
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:39amThis evil old man is gonna get hung out to dry. I love it.
Report Post »Sara72
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:20amhe is being used as the scapegoat..
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:40amFirst we got rid of Glenn … but that was just a warm up. Now we’re about to take down Old Man Murdoch.
Life is good for today’s Progressive Heroes!
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:33am@ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Progressive heroes like … Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Che Guevara, Mao Zedong, George Soros, or Cass Sunstein?
zombies=mindless followers=useful Idiots
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:55amLove how the idiots on the left like tyranny, can’t wait to see them lined up and put in the gas chambers if their side wins.
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:02pmYou two jack-legged sum’bitches are typical Glenn Beck/Fox worshippers.
All you say is crap. Stick a sock in it, my little nazis.
Report Post »Dustin75
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:15amSome of you saying this isn’t a big deal. If this was MSNBC you would be wanting to lynch GE and everyone else. Everything isn’t a conspiracy like Glenn wants it to, but you make conspiracies theories about anything. One more point not one thing Glenn has said has came true.
Report Post »cntrlfrk
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:32amRandom troll talking nonsense.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:33am@ cntrlfrk – yes you are.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:46amdustin75…..you should be a comedian….you are very funny. Lotus.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:55amDustin75:
Report Post »What do you mean, “If this was MSNBC”?
The country would much better if someone would lynch GE as it is. …..and lynch MSNBC along with it.
cntrlfrk
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:15amHe shut down the whole business, what more do people want?
News Corp employes over 50,000 people, I can’t imagine being held responsible for the actions of that many people.
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Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:22amOK cntrlfrk – how much is the Australian crook paying you? Good God, even Murdoch has the sense to apologise. “Fox has not been implicated in anything” – what color’s the moon on your planet you sad little apologist. “He shut down the whole business” – no he didn’t, he’s shut that title and will try and re launch it under another title when the dust settles. The 200 journalists have “found” jobs in other parts of the organisation. Unbelieveable – go and get a new script from your News Corp masters.
Report Post »cntrlfrk
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:36amNice try, but no matter what your conspiracy theory liberal heart of hate wants to imagine, unless there is actual evidence of wrongdoing, or widespread practices of this type throughout the organization, you cannot shut down everyone you disagree with just because they don’t bow down to the democrat party.
Typical liberal, taking every chance they get to outlaw opposing views.
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Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:45amNow read my post properly – let your lips move if that helps – YOU said they’d closed down the whole business (which of course isn’t true) and I didn’t say anything about closing down anything. I support a free press and wish to God we’d got one – and incidentally I’m not a democrat (but don’t let the truth get in the way of a good rant).
Report Post »cntrlfrk
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:58amYes you are a democrat, embrace it, be proud, man up.
What has FOX been implicated in?
Make up some more lies for us troll.
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Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:07pmIf he can’t maintain control of his organization, perhaps it is too large.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:13pmSo, you open your post with a lie, you try to judge someone you’ve never met, you defend the indefensible – and you ask “what has Fox been implicated in?” are you serious, have you read about the FBI enquiry, do you read the news – and then you try the tired old cliche about trolls.
Report Post »You are a sad little man (?), embrace it, be proud, man up.
thatoneguy
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:06amBoy they will try to make anything up to take fox down.
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:45amFox News is an evil company. You don’t have to make up things … just look at the evil they do.
Repeat, teabaggers.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:57amJesus loves tyranny. ;-/
Report Post »AmericanJay1776
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:00pmZombie, Why is Fox Evil? Because of it’s right wing? Man, that’s so sad to say……. Just because of a company’s political preference, it is evil?. No. It isn’t sad. It is pathetic. I don’t think the left-wing companies are evil because I disagree on their politics. Those companies have a right to exist like Fox does. Free speech is a God given right and it should not be silenced whether you’re a left-wing or right-wing. To advocate for Fox pulled from the air, you are don’t support \the first amendment of the Constitution. Think, man.
Report Post »Rabble In Arms
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:57amThis whole thing has the Soros Stink all over it from beginning to end.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:50amzombi……you and dustin75 nee to get together……you two are hilarious, a real riot. the zomb and the dust. Arrivederci baby. Lotus.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:48amSomeone needs to get the goods on GEORGE SOROS. Get a real criminal for a change.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:42amTypical liberal crap, try them in the public with lies and half truths, force them to resign/fold, then let the truth come our years/decades later when it’s to late, and the world has lost another beacon of truth/light.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:40amI can‘t say I’m a fan of Murdoch. But I am a fan of Ailes. The only way this affects Fox is some of their employee stock options are going down the tank. But I will guarantee you that Obama, Holder, and the FBI will try everything in their power to link this British trash can liner to Fox News.
Report Post »Tonio
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:31amI wouldn’t doubt if somehow Soros was involved in all this.
Report Post »Jack of Hearts
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:39amNow that really does smack of desperation. You’re not related to the Murdochs by any chance?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:31amIf Murdoch didn’t own FNC, would we even hear about this story? It’s about the English version of the “National Equirer” for craps sake. They probably had allien abduction stories on the front page.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:41amThis was the worlds largest newspaper until around 2 years ago, nothing to make fun of, 99% of the stories people made fun of turned out to be true, people wondered how they were always scooping everyone else including the police, turns out they were paying to cops to go get a drink, then doing the cops jobs for them.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:42amI know, this is such a non-story. It is a ruse, a red-herring to get the poeples attention off of the real criminality that is taking place. It is a soap opera. But you know what? The people are lapping it up like a dog laps up his own puke. Idiots.
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:25amBut it is kind of funny that a Tabloid paper trying to dig up dirt on people ends up getting dirt on their own faces and becoming a Tabloid story …..Karma
Report Post »Deuteronomy22
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:51amYeah a nonstory that made top police department officers and politicians resign in disgrace. This is a big deal that has nothing to do with Fox “News”.
Report Post »StevenL1955
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:29amIf Rupert had been a Liberal he would have
A. Stuck his middle finger up
B. Mocked and talked trash about women
C. Made up stories and lies and blow this story out of proportion
D. Had the entire left wing lame Stream media defending him
E. All of the above
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:37amF. His fellow press would have written admiringly about his dogedness in uncovering the truth.
Report Post »Funny how they all fell in love with Julien Assange when he got info illegaly but now…it’s an outrage!
rose-ellen
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:14amAssange is a great anti-american.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:27amrose-ellen is a great anti American
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:43amrose ellen is a nut masquerading as a human
if shw was born a thousand yrs ago shw ould have been left on a rock for the crows to eat
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:26amRosebud!
Report Post »llotus
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:01pmmonicnee`………glad to find that you also were not on the floatila, neither was baikinure. I dont think the zomb and dusty and rose were either. You guys keep your ears back, your nose up and your tail down. Never spit in the wind, ask baikinure. Lotus.
Report Post »freedomofspeech
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:21amI hope Murdoch realizes these ppl want blood.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:31amGlenn told them not to fire him!
Report Post »saranda
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:18amMurdoch will step aside from day to day CEO role and fall back into the chairmans desk. If his son James survives this, which is questionable, Murdoch’s influence will continue strong. Murdoch likely has run his course with News Corp as the face of news.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:10amThis is only a speedbump for Murdoch; though he seems to take it seriously. I hope the guilty are dealt with and those who are not prove themselves to be clean.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:19amLeft ,right,murdoch could care less;all he cares about is israel and his anti-arab /muslim genocidal propaganda campaign.it‘s the raison d’etre of his media empire.All else he’ll go with the flow..
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:36amrose-ellen
Report Post »It must really gall you to see Israelis and Americans living well while you and your ignorant brethren live in squalor under tyrants. Our poorest people live better than 90% of your people. It looks like God has blessed us, doesn’t it?
Psychosis
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 11:48amrose ellen LIKES huts with mud floors she thinks its quaint
the people she supports are Superior …….of course !!!!! they have had thousands of yrs head start as a culture, compared to the US , so obviously they know living in squalor is better !!!!!!
and , dont forget …………….they hold the most awards for improving humanity !!
oh, wait………………….no they dont…………..they are one step above cave man
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 1:34pmAward?How many staunch anti-zionist has ever gotten any award? even martin lluther king had to say that any one who didn’t support israel was anti semitic-hence all arabs are existentially evil hence he was a genicidists himself[and has the blood of 9-11 victims as well as arabs and israelis on his hands since he never called for a just resolution to that confflict and had he done so all subsequent events would not have happened if a just resolution had happened- a67border israel]..Just goes to show what hoops any one must jump through to get an award. Also WE propped up these dictators to keep the people down and saddam was our friend when we encouraged his war with iran[our enemy[ and when we ignored the european ourcry that he gassed the kurds only to ressurrect it when we wanted a new oil supply[the uppity saudi natives gave us a run for our meddling there on-9-11] and set up a military base there from which to control the people of the mid east.But how many of them suffer from depression,drug addiction child abuse and all kind of ills that plague us? A simpler life is not necessarily a less satisfying life though technology is hopefully coming to them.The afghans are extremely backwards and always have been .Don’t know why.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:31amActually Steve Doocy of Fox & Friends thinks this story should just go away.
On Fox And Friends Friday, host Steve Doocy welcomed Bob Dilenschneider of the Dilenschneider Group, and they both lamented that the Murdoch scandal was unfair to Fox, becuase it was probably going to mean increased scrutiny on journalistic ethics.
Nobody needs extra ethics!
TEA
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:33amNo, you’re not. The American press’ obsession with this is all about FNC. They are salivating over the opportunity to tie this to FNC somehow.
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:51amMurdock likes PB&J sandwiches.
Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 12:12pmWhy does it matter if you could care less. Everyone could care less if they really tried. Now, if you COULDN’T care less that would be something worth telling us.
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