Sure, we've all read that Rupert Murdoch has tried to make nice with Hillary lately. Strange enough when the owner of FOX does something like that. But he has now had quite a nasty spat with his editor Judith Regan. (Murdoch's News Corporation owns Harper Collins which handles Regan Books imprint.) It seems that Regan was upset over the lack of support for her "If I Did It" O.J. book and in the course of things made a remark that News Corp has now shared. Details on the remark and more on Regan books after the jump . . .
Here's Ms. Regan's remark:
"Of all people, the Jews should know about ganging up, finding common enemies and telling the big lie." This is all according to notes taken during a phone conversation with her by Mark Jackson, a Harper Collins lawyer.
According to a transcript of Mr. Jackson’s notes provided by Gary Ginsberg, an executive vice president of the News Corporation, Ms. Regan went on to say that the literary agent Esther Newberg; HarperCollins’s executive editor, David Hirshey; HarperCollins’s president, Jane Friedman, and Mr. Jackson "constitute a Jewish cabal against her."
From the Times article linked to above the fold:
A lawyer for Ms. Regan, Bert Fields, denied that Ms. Regan had said there was a "Jewish cabal against her," saying she used only the word "cabal" in the conversation, and it came in response to a question from Mr. Jackson. But he acknowledged that she had made some version of the first statement, drawing attention to the fact that her boss and others involved in the controversy over the aborted O.J. Simpson project were Jewish.
He denied, though, that this reflected any anti-Semitism.
Now . . . why might this be reason for joy in Liberalville? Well, Regan Books has provided a publishing outlet for all sorts of wingnuttery. Some of their "hits" (or should we call them hit pieces):
Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man by David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke
Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism by Sean Hannity
Rewriting History by Dick Morris
Bush vs. the Beltway: How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror by Laurie Mylroie
Hating America: The New World Sport by John Gibson
The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism by Paul Kengor
And of course, they also publish some things with "social value" that I'm sure the Christian right would endorse:
Jenna Jameson’s How to Make Love Like a Porn Star
Sex Tips from a Dominatrix by Patricia Payne
Anyway . . . not that I don't think Murdoch will find another imprint to try to add "respectability" to his minions wild attacks on liberals, but I am glad to see Judith Regan gone. No matter that she seems to spread her money around. But then, maybe that is the real reason Murdoch canned her. Greater minds than mine might help sort this out.