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Latest Resignation in Hacking Scandal: London Police Commissioner

Latest Resignation in Hacking Scandal: London Police Commissioner

As the News of the World hacking scandal continues to infect more and more branches of British society and the News Corporation empire, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson has announced today that he will step down from his post following criticism for his handling of the ordeal and his links to News Corp.

MSNBC:

“Stephenson said he was resigning as commissioner of London‘s force because of ’speculation and accusations’ about his links to Neil Wallis, a former News of the World executive editor, who also worked for the London police as a part-time PR consultant for a year until September 2010. Wallis was arrested last week.

Stephenson said he did not make the decision to hire Wallis and had no knowledge of Wallis’s links to phone hacking, but he wanted his police force to focus on preparing for the 2012 London Olympics instead of wondering about a possible leadership change.”

The news of Stephenson’s resignation comes on the same day as the arrest of Rebekah Brooks, former News of the World editor, and the same week as Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton’s resignation.

Latest Resignation in Hacking Scandal: London Police Commissioner

With a figure as high up in the British establishment as Stephenson now a casualty of the scandal, some have speculated that it is not so unimaginable that the scandal will end up bringing down the calm and articulate Prime Minister. Publisher of Total Politics Ian Dale:

“I can’t believe I am even writing this, but it is no longer an impossibility to imagine this scandal bringing down the Prime Minister or even the government. OK, some of you reading this may think that last sentence is a deranged ranting, and you may be right. Indeed, I hope you are. But Sir Paul Stephenson launched a thinly veiled attack on David Cameron in his resignation statement and the Prime Minister is already on the ropes about the propriety of his relationship with Andy Coulson.”

Is it fair at this point to equate the News of the World hacking scandal as the British version of Watergate? Or considering it involves a media giant on three continents, the royal family and the possible hacking of 9/11 survivors, something even bigger?

Comments (75)

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  • Xpat48
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:36am

    Crooked cops? For a second I thought they were talking about us. ( Whew! )

    We’ve got the best cops money can buy!

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    • JRook
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:32am

      Of course the bribery aspect indicates a much higher level of knowledge in Murdoch’s management staff, including himself. While a handful of employees may have engaged in hacking cell phones. Paying off the police requires money, a bunch of it. And I doubt the employees were graciously supplying the money. It is a classic case of either Murdoch knowing what was going on, or he is stupid and it was happening under his nose. Either way he is responsible. The continuing resignations are reflective of an organized attempt to protect him. You know these people will be paid well for taking the fall.

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  • dsm
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:25am

    Shortly after this started to come to a head, I said to myself it would not surprise me if Glenn saw this coming. Unfortunately, this has Soros written all over it.

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    • Stronge
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:04am

      Care to explain exactly where Soros fits into all of this? Oh, and please do so referring only to reality and facts.

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    • beckbotsrlame
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:28am

      Yeah soros had this all planned. Where do idiots like you come from?

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  • brucep631
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 4:57am

    This is not simply a story that makes liberals glow with satisfaction. It is a story about an international free press and what happens when a corrupt media subverts the political process. If the blaze is actually a news site than blaze readers should care about Murdoch’s guilt or innocence. Read your constitution people freedom of speech was the first amendment.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 1:54pm

      Murdoch’s one and only concern is his anti-arab/muslim genocidal propaganda media campaign.he’s a zioninist propagandist and as a media mogul has the blood of millions of arabs,countless americans and israelis on his hand.he’s been a war monger against arabs from day one of his career.He’s in fact guilty of crimes against humanity;preaching genocidal hatred of a billion people.That you would have no problem with one man controlling so much media shows your lack of discernment as brainwashed gulls.You’re too busy preoccupied with spoonfed paranoia about Soros or muslims wanting to force you to convert,that you don‘t see that you’re being indoctrinated by a power elite with an agenda.

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    • Jabber
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:01pm

      Rose Ellen-

      Had to read that twice. Could substitute the name Obama and it would all be exactly the same.

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  • CyberBoy
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 4:41am

    The lions, eating their young…

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  • Maxim Crux
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 12:03am

    Our government taps cell phones, makes arrest without warrants and does everything that is being claimed here. It is called the Patriot Act. One does not make the other correct, but it certainly questions one like Barbara Boxer who wants an investigation into Fox News. It is only a matter of time before Fox caves to the mighty powers. When we have corruption at the highest levels of government with plenty of evidence to convict and nothing is done, then it is only safe to assume that free press will be the next thing to take over. After that, it will be the military. That is why Obama wants to put illegals in there and give them citizenship after 2 years service. They will owe the party then and have their unwavering support.

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  • Rfunk
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 11:25pm

    Maybe all of the ignorant children that are jumping to conclusions both for or against Rupert Murdoch and Newscorp could wait until the investigation gets to the bottom of this.

    For those of you that automatically indicate Mr. Murdoch as culpable and directly responsible for this situation, I suggest you pull your partisan face out of your partisan ass. This is an international company with god knows how many employees etc. I run a small construction company and am often out of the loop about things until they surface. The idea that somehow Mr. Murdoch should have such a tight grip on his company that nothing could get by him is laughable. Try getting out of the basement some time. The real world is not the SIMS despite what you believe.

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 11:57pm

      Nice contradiction there RFUNK, first you whine about people jumping to conclusions and then go to great lengths to defend murdoch’s knowledge of the incidents. Maybe if YOU took your partisan face out of YOUR partisan a$$, you might have more idea of what is happening in your own company, I sure know everything that is happening with mine.

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    • Passerbye
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 12:45am

      Anyone that thinks a self-made businessman doesn‘t know how his company gets all it’s stories never met a self-made businessman.

      Plus, with the libel laws in the UK, no editor would dare print a story without knowing the source. They don’t even do that here. Anyone that claims the editor didn’t, is comically nieve.

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    • calijohn
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 1:52am

      RAF
      murdoch apologized.
      tantamount to a tacit admission of guilt.
      investigate the putz and close all his enterprises in the us.
      used to be, you could only own a small number of closely related media outlets.
      st. ronnie changed all that.

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  • therealconservative
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:43pm

    JZS

    I did’t know you were in charge and conducting this investagation. Or could it be you are just repalying the MSM line.

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    • jzs
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 11:21pm

      No THEREALCONSERVATIVE, I’m not charge of the investigation. But the person who is in charge has arrested 10 people or so. And Murdoch has fired several top level people, dropped his bid for BskyB, apologized several times, closed the newspaper under scrutiny and is doing every kind of damage control he can. A police chief has resigned.

      Remember your words THEREALCONSERVATIVE (nice username by the way). People are going to talk. The scandal will spread to the US and the corruption will be revealed in glorious tabloid fashion. And people will go to jail.

      You may think it’s perfectly acceptable to hack into dead people voice mail because, you know, conservatives are doing it. But most don’t. Remember you cute comments THEREALCONSERVATIVE. And we’ll see if you are right or I am right.

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  • ezeewhiz
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:35pm

    Do any of you think that something similar to this debacle across the waters doesn’t exist in some form here? The Fourth Estate is part of the political system lock stock and barrel. And it isn’t for the benefit of the Amreican public anymore. Their actions have become a big part of “The end justiies the mean.”

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  • therealconservative
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:01pm

    I see the troll’s have come out of the woodwork for this one.

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    • jzs
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:17pm

      True REALCONSERVATIVE. And it’s really fun for the trolls to read comments from people like you defending an unethical organization that bribes policeman, hacks into dead girl’s voicemails (and deletes some to get hear more and give the family the false hope that the girl is alive) and hack the phones of 9-11 victims. Your really are a conservative, I’ll give you that.

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    • Phoenixsoulfire
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:29pm

      yeah JZS is the real winner here, probably puts his hair up like a pencil troll and sits down on a giant pencil to get his Jollies off.

      Why are you here? To annoy real Americans? Unlike you we don’t believe in hanging off odouche bags ball sack, while finger his man wife’s corn hole.

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  • survivorseed
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:58pm

    its fun to watch Blazers in denial.
    First it was “meh, this isn’t a story”
    Then “why do we care what happens in england”
    to “ITS ALL SOROS’ FAULT”

    Are you gunna go all in on the river?

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 5:24am

      When is someone going to investigate .. FAST AND FURIOUSGATE .. seems Obama and his cronies need a deflection a day to keep the heat off. F and F GATE .. BIGGER THAN WATERGATE … Where is the MSM on THIS???!!!!!

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 6:21pm

      I thought this thread was about NOTW there CATTY B. Nice try though, I’ll add it to my list

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  • jzs
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:42pm

    Each day‘s news shows more about the pervasive corruption and unethical and illegal environment of Murdoch’s empire. And the absolute lack of respect for an individual human being. Their job, as one insider was “to destroy human beings.” Murdoch gave up his bid for BskyB, closed World News, and has been casting people overboard left and right to keep his ship afloat.

    But people are going to start talking to save themselves, and then he’ll really have problems.

    Don’t think FOX will get away unscathed. Don‘t even imagine the corruption didn’t extend into the US. And FOX’s illegitimacy will be exposed.

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:49pm

      http://n-morgan.tumblr.com/post/7743704763/former-fox-news-executive-dan-cooper-has-claimed-that-a
      something like this you mean

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:21pm

      Funny it is YOU who knows Murdoch’s motives.

      I guess it is IMPOSSIBLE for him to be a responsible and honest man. A man who, when seeing corruption in his own employees, takes swift and decisive action to cut them off from their association with him.

      Nooooo, YOU are all knowing, YOU are omniscient, YOU are the great, washed elitist intellectual who is SOLELY capable of knowing his innermost motives.

      Thank you, jzs.

      Now we all know the truth. Your mission is accomplished. You can now stop trolling and hijacking threads and posts.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:32pm

    Don’t care for the liberal **** chat until the whole story unfolds. Still not so sure there wasn’t some progressive plants (Soros?) in on this hacking scandal. Hmmm, maybe some of the early resignations and arrest to resist investigations. I am not always right about my speculations but I do know we are hearing a lot more than necessary to divert our attention from “fast and furious”, which is much more important news right now due to the fact it has taken lives of US citizens and our own leadership has chosen to ignore it. Has anyone thought about the fact that the one we are trusting to oversee the investigation of the hacking scandal if it also exists in the US is the same one that is in charge of the gunrunner scandal, Eric Holder himself? Interesting huh?

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  • Exrepublisheep
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 8:40pm

    This is funny. Murdoch is evidently guilty of many things but no, its a leftwing job? Kool-aid indeed!

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  • Mr.ManZ
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 8:13pm

    This story is like a daily soap for all the liberal dung weed trolling this board.

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  • Mr.ManZ
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 8:13pm

    This story is like a daily soap for all the liberal dung weed trolling this board

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  • Passerbye
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:48pm

    Anyone that actually absorbs the stunning facts, the incredible parts, the axe murder and hacking the police investigating and geting them fired, Labor and Conservative MP’s terrified of him, mailing out viruses you name it.

    And the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act carries a penalty up to everything executives own personally, including any pension and the house you live in. All you have to do is bribe a foreign government. It’s almost always settled out of court. Corporations have paid fines over a billion dollars.

    The few of the 20,000 names that were notified, were paid off by James Murdoch a million dollars each. A precedent. 20,000 x 1 million dollars = 20 billion dollars in civil damages alone.

    If any Murdoch is still in control, which is very unlikely, it will be Elizabeth who doesn’t like the way Ailes runs Fox.

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    • hauschild
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:58pm

      Soros has done another masterful job of stifling any voice that opposes him.

      Pardon me while I wait about another or month or two for the actual facts to come out.

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    • Stronge
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 10:04pm

      @Hauschild

      Sorry, where exactly does Soros fit into this? Is he the secret power behind the News International throne, responsible for authorising the corrupt practices there, with Murdoch merely his puppet? Or is he the Guardian journalist who spent years piecing the story together? In the real world, simply barking ‘Soros’ isn’t enough, I’m afraid. Sometimes people have to take responsibility for their own actions rather than blaming it on the bogeyman.

      Stronge  
    • survivorseed
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 12:04am

      C’mon Stronge, everyone knows in wing nut land if its not Obamas fault, then it must be Soros’.

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  • LinkedIn G
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:34pm

    Since Glenn Beck left Fox…I get most of my news from The Blaze and GBTV…The only people this matters to is the Liberals…and they hated Fox News way before this scandal.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:48pm

      Why do I feel that Glenn was waaaaay ahead of the curve about Newscorp’s implosion ?
      His instincts have been spot on so far .
      I ‘m sure all those in FOX who are currently smooching the binTalal posterior feel like disposable idiots

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  • junior1971
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:35pm

    Saranda: I have spent way too much time watching fox over the last 2 plus years. I have watched the methodology of that network transition from hard hitting conservative news and opinion to soft and sloppy casey anthony coverage, to ridiculing a man beacause he is a mormon. Employees from the parent network are guilty and that in itself is reason to suspect, let alone the subtle changes I have seen in their broadcasting. No, they are not barry supporters, however, they are not covering important stories, the opinion shows are centrist at best, I am interested the Beck style approach. Hard hitting, to the point, covering the whole truth. Their so-called conservative commentrators are actually suggesting that barry be given the power to spend our money at will in the name of winning in 2012. Open your eyes and see for yourself.

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    • saranda
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:43pm

      Try getting a little more variety in your news. GBTV and The Blaze are hardly news sources.,,..opinion sites yes, entertainment mostly, but not for news. Try BBC or even CBC (Canada) or google the local newspapers when news breaks anywhere in the world (you can always find english papers). You will get a perspective that might challenge you, but it will certainly inform you. Read newspapers from wherever you can. I read the Sydney Morning Herald, the National Post from Toronto, the Times of London, and a couple US papers in an informal rotation to get news.
      If Glenn Beck is your only source of news (sorry, I just threw up in my mouth a little) you are getting told what to think and how to react. You need to think for yourself.

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:57pm

      I choose to get all My unbiased News and Facts from the fine folks at MSNBC.

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    • Look4DBigPicture
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:43pm

      I thought it was just me, because I’ve also noticed a difference in FoxNews the last couple of months. I find myself bored and surfing channels a lot. I’ve completely stopped watching Greta. FoxNews made a BIG mistake thinking their audience was even remotely interested in the Casey Anthony trial.

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  • Passerbye
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:22pm

    They tormented the families of the terrorist victims and those kids we sent to war that died and were maimed.

    Anyone that defends them isn’t even remotely a patriot.

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:11pm

    Looking back , I think UK‘s banning of Micheal Savage doesn’t seem to be an isolated incident anymore.
    See Murdoch, this is what you get when you glue your @ZZ to a moozie..YOU fall down and the moozie takes over

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  • junior1971
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:08pm

    The parent company of fox news. It has become apparent to me that fox is becoming the silent weapon. They continually beat barrys ideas into their viewers heads in what seems to be an attempt at convincing their viewers that his agenda is necessary. You cant count the times that we are told we need to raise the debt ceiling or republicans will lose in 2012, we will need to tax the rich. Over and over again, like mind f….ing. This morning they exploited Rick Perry’s religious beliefs in what I consider a biased approach. Always telling us that the American people believe this or that because a poll of 2 or 3 thousand people said so, etc,etc. This scandal is probably self imposed at this point. Stick to internet and conservative radio or be lead astray.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:10pm

      The tyranny of Soros is working, the world will suffer greatly. ;-/

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    • saranda
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:12pm

      Junior1971 – even on this board your posts stand out as strange. Fox as a tool for Obama? Get your news only from the internet and conservative radio? Your world is a strange one indeed?

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    • rodertrudis
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:18pm

      That’s the stupidest thing I have ever heard. So you‘re now saying that Fox News is pimping Pres Obama’s debt reduction plan? Unbelievable.

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    • Blue Collar Conservative
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:11pm

      I can’t get past the strange, reoccurring pattern that has developed. Fox will have someone come on and tell the truth about the debt situation i.e. we won‘t default if the debt ceiling isn’t raised due to the 200Billion/month fed income, and like clockwork, THAT fact isn’t disputed, but they continue to converse as if that point was never made. Maybe the scarey talk gets them better ratings, but it certainly doesn’t serve the viewers.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 8:14pm

      Huff Po Virus

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    • DonaldH
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 7:06am

      I agree, FNC has taken a noticeable turn to the left. I’ve all but completely stopped watching O’Reilly . I usually tune into his show for the first few minutes but eventually the inevitable starts to happen as he starts to grovel for approval from the liberal elite media types. It’s actually kinda pathetic how obvious it is he wants to be counted by them as member of their exclusive media elitist club….
      FOX and Friends I suppose is still the same as always but I hardly count them as a information highway of cutting edge news

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  • tifosa
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:06pm

    oh the fun has just begun: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/17/995568/-Fmr-Fox-News-Executive:-Americans-Phones-Were-Hacked

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:25pm

      So whatever happened to those 2 democrats who hacked into Newt Gingrich’s cell phone ?

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:34pm

      They were given Nobel Prizes for Journalistic Ethics. And a box of Moonpie’s

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    • tifosa
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:41pm

      idk, in the 90′s? No thoughts about the NOTW or this situation?

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:16pm

      the dk? thats where you get your news from ???

      rolf

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:16pm

      IMHO, if its OK to do in the 90s under Clinton ,
      its OK to do the same in 2011 under Cameron.
      THIS Cameron:
      http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/british-pm-removes-his-name-from-list-of-jewish-national-fund-patrons-1.364641
      specially since Newscorp is a Talaified outfit now

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:42pm

      Psychosis
      the dk? thats where you get your news from ???
      rolf
      ———–
      Kos is not for news, it is used as an archive (as a separate window) to search and cut and paste comments on blogs.
      Their news comes from Comedy Central, their talking points from Media Matters and their thought process from SNL. Then everything gets articulated by P1$$y Mathews or MorningHo to be repeated for maximum impact , whenever they get a chance

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    • tifosa
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 8:21pm

      I can certainly see why you’d want to change the topic. It’s happening on every “Rupert scandal” thread :^D

      Report Post » tifosa  
  • sWampy
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:02pm

    Why is it the top guy here falls on his sword, and Obama won’t fall on his sword over fast and furious? Fast and furious was actually against the law, against international law and at the very least was directly ordered by someone directly under Obama if Obama didn’t approve it himself.

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  • SAINT_09
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:52pm

    ….They all FALL down….

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  • ARealCharliesAngel
    Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:51pm

    MSNBC is getting their jollies on this story…..they are beating it like a dead horse.

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    • TelepromoterNChief
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 5:57pm

      They can do it all they want.

      Said dead horse has higher ratings than they do.

      That’s a shrill Chris Matthews can send up his leg.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:00pm

      It’s fun to watch them eat their own!!

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    • TheGreyPiper
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:10pm

      Watch the opening of Mel Brooks’ “History of the World”, spoofing “2001 A Space Odyssey”, where the primeval missing links are discovering the strange black monolith. That’s what Tingles and the gang are gonna be like.

      If you know the scene, you should be covering your eyes wishing you could get that image out of your head by now….

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    • rodertrudis
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:12pm

      Right. And it’s a dead horse that will be alive for a bit longer. Fox News, Murdoch, the most corrupt “news organization” on the planet. The proper name for this organization is International Crime Syndicate. We are witnessing the long awaited unraveling of Murdoch’s criminal enterprise. Here’s an interesting tidbit for the Fox News lovers: http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2008/01/10/fox-news-knocks-down-brain-room-claim

      Note particularly the date on this article, and of course the denial by Fox that any such phone tapping, black ops operation existed in their N.Y. offices.

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 7:48pm

      Maybe MMMMsn Shultz will get off the Madison, WI. union thing..
      talk about a “Dead Horse”

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