tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post2809914358583863688..comments2024-03-29T00:04:32.434-05:00Comments on Althouse: The NYT live-blogs British parliamentary hearings.Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79749958698460677982011-07-20T00:19:35.539-05:002011-07-20T00:19:35.539-05:00There is very little evidence that 9/11 victims...There is very little evidence that 9/11 victims' phones were hacked. Even the NY Times' Brian Stelter calls the claims <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/brianstelter/status/93321616087453698" rel="nofollow"> flimsy</a>.<br />That dog won't hunt, kids.shanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10643191749167151526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22381756842453880672011-07-19T23:05:57.028-05:002011-07-19T23:05:57.028-05:00We are in the Age of the Internet!
Hacking, my fo...We are in the Age of the Internet!<br /><br />Hacking, my foot.<br /><br />Everyone with a cell phone that has a camera inside ... wants to upload to YouTube!<br /><br />As to capturing signals that are in the air ... IF you want confidentiality ... Hire a Mohawk Indian ... that can CLICK messages. It's what was done on our battlefields in Europe during WW2. Drove the Germans bat shit crazy. Which was a great thing.<br /><br />As to news. NO ONE forces you to read tabloids.<br /><br />But when you go there ... there are no excused that to get to the "stories" ... journalists use every means at hand.<br /><br />Except? When the government tells you its a "one bullet theory" ... calling it bullshit gets you audited.<br /><br />The Brits are weenies.<br /><br />This is not news.<br /><br />And, when Rupert has to hand over his company's reins to anybody ... I hope he gives them to Wendi Deng Murdoch. With her fingers flayed open, she can knock an opponent unconscious. Rupert knows how to pick winners.<br /><br />(Harry Truman, brought up on a farm, new how to pick horses.) It's a talent. Rupert Murdoch also has his.Carol_Hermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16629820011087370488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11068548443284590642011-07-19T22:36:31.033-05:002011-07-19T22:36:31.033-05:00The News Corp people won the battle of appearances...The News Corp people won the battle of appearances in a big way, but some interesting questions remain.<br /><br />Why were such large settlements made to Gordon Taylor and Max Clifford?<br /><br />Why has News Corp been paying the legal bills of Goodman and Mulcaire?<br /><br />Why do Harbottle and Lewis wish to be released from their confidentiality agreement? Especially considering Lord Macdonald says it took him minutes to ascertain the emails in question contained "blindingly obvious" evidence of criminal wrongdoing?<br /><br />Maybe there are perfectly reasonable answers to all of these questions, and maybe it doesn't even matter when faced with a bullied old man, his protective and earnest young son, a woman with an amazing mane of hair, and a left-wing dork with a plate full of shaving cream.<br /><br />Already polls say that only 6% of UK voters care about "hackgate."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59678327244389952382011-07-19T22:01:15.287-05:002011-07-19T22:01:15.287-05:00Titus: Rebekah on top. Thought crossed my mind too...Titus: Rebekah on top. Thought crossed my mind too. I'm only human.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13814811852700710212011-07-19T21:16:01.802-05:002011-07-19T21:16:01.802-05:00Whatever happened to the Valarie Phlame affair?
N...Whatever happened to the Valarie Phlame affair?<br /><br />Now that was a scandal.rcoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102201338319611538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9791084673084153072011-07-19T21:15:24.129-05:002011-07-19T21:15:24.129-05:00I think NYT's should be covering a more intere...I think NYT's should be covering a more interesting and important scandal:<br /><br />Do you realize that female millionaires are completely underrepresented at the Augusta Golf Club. <br /><br />Do you realize that the editor who broke this story & tried to correct this injustice was forced to resign? And no one gives a damn?<br /><br />Where is the justice?rcoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102201338319611538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64184018571021690712011-07-19T21:07:22.441-05:002011-07-19T21:07:22.441-05:00Wendi Deng Murdoch was a championship volley ball ...Wendi Deng Murdoch was a championship volley ball player!<br /><br />Jonnie Marbles head, if it wasn't connected to his shoulders. Would have gone flying over the net!<br /><br />And, the lady in the grey suit?<br /><br />One of Murdoch's lawyers!<br /><br />The politicians? In their own building ... which you'd call a "home court advantage" ... saw this happening in front of their eyes.<br /><br />Instead of "hacking." How about police incompetence?<br /><br />How, exactly, did Jonnie get into the room? How did his pie tin not set off alarm bells?<br /><br />And, why were the "bobbies" the last to reach him.<br /><br />The only reason Jonnie didn't turn and run ... is that Wendi Deng Murdoch made sure he got discombobulated.Carol_Hermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16629820011087370488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83333109387795965952011-07-19T21:02:00.663-05:002011-07-19T21:02:00.663-05:00Because Fox News released confidential, classified...Because Fox News released confidential, classified national security information during the Bush administration that aided and abetted the terrorists in their efforts to do harm to Americans......<br /><br />oh wait, that was the N Y Times..Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08643767152675274688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50085547102929533552011-07-19T21:00:16.582-05:002011-07-19T21:00:16.582-05:00How amazingly boring this "scandal" is. ...How amazingly boring this "scandal" is. <br /><br />I guess it helps if you're British or have some weird hatred of a newspaper publisher.rcoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102201338319611538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22245464598241887892011-07-19T20:33:07.307-05:002011-07-19T20:33:07.307-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.sorepawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897026983666453798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29077235269230324102011-07-19T20:25:02.696-05:002011-07-19T20:25:02.696-05:00...because
"The government itself sets up op......because<br /><br /><i>"The government itself sets up operations that run thousands of guns to drug cartels, <b>gets two Federal agents and hundreds of Mexican nationals killed, then the coverup goes right up to the Deputy AG (which means it goes at least to the AG</b>: his deputy wouldn't want to be accused of going behind his back), an agency head goes defector. And the MSM is in "move on folks, nothing to see here" mode."</i><br /><br />(<a href="http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2011/07/their_latest_le.php" rel="nofollow">Link</a>).<br /><br />(emphasis added.)Paco Wovéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00053886112561036768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18528274144429788492011-07-19T20:15:14.663-05:002011-07-19T20:15:14.663-05:00I note, Garage, that in all of this you blew right...I note, Garage, that in all of this you blew right past the Martins. No word from you at all as to whether these Democrats who recorded a private phone call in order to bring it to the attention of another Democrat with a witchhunt to launch was a good or bad thing. Nope. Nothing at all from you but worthless, witless snarky "so there's that" and "Fox biased? Noooo!"<br /><br />I did at one time entertain the notion that you weren't as much a tool as Jeremy, a clown as much as House or as much a spittle-flecked lunatic as Alpha. I thought you capable of some rational thought.<br /><br />But then again, I once belived in Santa Claus, too.Christopher in MAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833020990663388610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16214033981165740512011-07-19T20:10:37.624-05:002011-07-19T20:10:37.624-05:00Finally, I agree with garage mahal! At 1:04 PM .....Finally, I agree with garage mahal! At 1:04 PM ...<br /><br />"Nobody turned up dead today, so there's that."<br /><br />And, Wendi Murdoch used BOTH HANDS. She flew! And, she SCORED!Carol_Hermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16629820011087370488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80437504970631172962011-07-19T20:07:38.973-05:002011-07-19T20:07:38.973-05:00Hacking?
This is a scandal about "hacking?&q...Hacking?<br /><br />This is a scandal about "hacking?"<br /><br />We've got the fucking Internet!<br /><br />Everybody's got a cell phone!<br /><br />Things end up on YouTube before they end up "circulating" on any front page, anywhere!<br /><br />As to the time Prince Charles said to Camilla that he wished he was her tampon ... came about because even though Prince Charles talks to plants. And, thinks he's got them listening ... he knew nothing about how "wireless" worked. <br /><br />To TAP you'd need to be using land lines!<br /><br />Man. Wendi Murdoch sure knows how to use her weight to an advantage!<br /><br />Lucky old man to have a wife like that!Carol_Hermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16629820011087370488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-70878211774658725172011-07-19T20:02:44.891-05:002011-07-19T20:02:44.891-05:00Funny, how the Internet works.
Guy comes in with ...Funny, how the Internet works.<br /><br />Guy comes in with pie plate. No one is on the Murdoch side of the room. But Wendi jumps up. Puts her left hand on this punk's shoulder. And, hits him BROAD FACE ... Her right hand is open. Fingers are splayed out.<br /><br />Story changes on a dime.<br /><br />Wendi Murdoch is a hero.<br /><br />The "bobbling" cops barely made it in time to "make an arrest."<br /><br />But for a demonstration?<br /><br />The Murdoch family is competent.<br /><br />The "bobbies" and the labor politicians are not!Carol_Hermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16629820011087370488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-26313404470998587972011-07-19T19:52:34.646-05:002011-07-19T19:52:34.646-05:00If Rupert Murdoch is personally responsible (other...If Rupert Murdoch is personally responsible (other than in the sense of being the major shareholder of NewsCorp, etc.), then why was not Sumner Redstone personally responsible for Dan Rather and Mary Mapes buying into the "fake but accurate" documents about W.'s TANG service?<br /><br />And I still say the "outrage" expressed in the MSM seems quite hollow juxtaposed to their schadenfreude in reporting on the tabloids' hacking into the private conversations of the royals and the glitterati.<br /><br />(The MSM would never lower themselves to do such things themselves, of course, but reporting on the National Enquirer's doings, f. ex., that is just news reporting, and no way the kind of sleaze that the National Enquirer engages in!)Hagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03653025261513705773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13479713630667987122011-07-19T18:14:16.013-05:002011-07-19T18:14:16.013-05:00Sorry Hocky Bum, you don't appear to know anyt...<i>Sorry Hocky Bum, you don't appear to know anything about the Murdoch's media business at all. I have no idea why you're posting on the subject.</i><br /><br />Absent the conspiracy nonsense you're pushing, I clearly know more than you do.Bruce Rheinsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15705964602356339019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79312925729640992162011-07-19T18:09:02.511-05:002011-07-19T18:09:02.511-05:00Sorry Hocky Bum, you don't appear to know anyt...Sorry Hocky Bum, you don't appear to know anything about the Murdoch's media business at all. I have no idea why you're posting on the subject. Heywood Ricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196900556192534896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83757866589383329832011-07-19T17:53:02.792-05:002011-07-19T17:53:02.792-05:00Help me out here Hockey Bum, on what continent was...<i>Help me out here Hockey Bum, on what continent was Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton employed when he decided to resign?</i><br /><br />Wow. Talk about grasping at loose connections. <br /><br />Let's see if I can follow your logic in a different context. Paul Krugman was an advisor to Enron. Enron turned out to be a scam. Paul Krugman currently has a column in the New York Times. Ergo, Enron and the New York Times are the same!Bruce Rheinsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15705964602356339019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72145596578801394852011-07-19T17:46:19.343-05:002011-07-19T17:46:19.343-05:00News of the World and Fox News are the same thing ...<i>News of the World and Fox News are the same thing despite being parts of different News Corp. subsidiaries and a continent apart.</i> <br /><br />Help me out here Hockey Bum, on what continent was Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton employed when he decided to resign? Heywood Ricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196900556192534896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76510632730352696962011-07-19T17:39:27.927-05:002011-07-19T17:39:27.927-05:00Let's see what Murdoch's getting for his m...<i>Let's see what Murdoch's getting for his money.</i><br /><br />So Palin and Huckabee are corrupt.?<br /><br />Wow, I've learned so much these past few days. <br /><br />News of the World and Fox News are the same thing despite being parts of different News Corp. subsidiaries and a continent apart. <br /><br />Murdoch murdered a whistle blower, but only after the whistle blower had already blown the whistle and when it would be most embarrassing for Murdoch.<br /><br />And Palin and Huckabee are corrupt.Bruce Rheinsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15705964602356339019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77700769255016862372011-07-19T17:37:14.459-05:002011-07-19T17:37:14.459-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.sorepawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897026983666453798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-70334330730505546502011-07-19T17:24:59.593-05:002011-07-19T17:24:59.593-05:00So Palin and Huckabee shouldn't express an opi...<i>So Palin and Huckabee shouldn't express an opinion, but Murdoch's opponents are free to smear him?</i><br /><br />I didn't imply any such thing. I can't wait to see them express their opinion. Let's see what Murdoch's getting for his money. Heywood Ricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196900556192534896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73514251676135389522011-07-19T17:24:46.500-05:002011-07-19T17:24:46.500-05:00Hagar:
when I saw that stupid wench get some fles...Hagar:<br /><br />when I saw that stupid wench get some flesh to the face I cheered like hell. Been dying to see one of those pie throwers get theirs. Bravo!Aurelianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12801549503670423386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61379342191250526072011-07-19T17:18:32.269-05:002011-07-19T17:18:32.269-05:00A conflict of interest
So Palin and Huckabee shou...<i>A conflict of interest</i><br /><br />So Palin and Huckabee shouldn't express an opinion, but Murdoch's opponents are free to smear him?<br /><br /><i>As for the Fox audience, you'll whine about how oppressed you are and spin endless paranoid conspiracy theories.</i><br /><br />So, it's the Fox audience who have been spinning the paranoid conspiracies conflating a British tabloid with an American cable news network and implying that Murdoch has people murdered?Bruce Rheinsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15705964602356339019noreply@blogger.com