My head is either going to explode or implode if I read "Hacking Scandal" one more time. "Phone Hacking" is to Murdoch as tax evasion was to Al Capone. Calling this phone hacking makes it sound like a little mis-deed conducted as a meaningless tabloid tried to get dish on stars. If you want to believe that narrative, or let it keep going, then we all deserve the result. Phone Hacking my arse!
What does Murdoch own...or better yet, what doesn't he own? Murdoch sits with the biggest microphone ever known to mankind - Again, Murdoch owns the "media." The "liberal media" is owned by a 14 year old kid, Marvin, who distributes 250 copies of his xeroxed rant quarterly in and around Spokane. You have Murdoch in one corner, Marvin in another and despite Palin's BS that's the score. Every time that crazy lady, and her fellow loons, squeal about the "liberal media" milk explodes out of my nose.
Murdoch & Co. have not been hacking shyte. Rather, they have been collecting dossiers on everyone from leaders of state to dead little girls. Police included. Can you imagine how unwilling you would be to delve into Murdoch's mis-deeds if he plopped down a bunch of paperwork in front of you detailing ALL aspects of your life - and knowing he had the biggest darn microphone known to mankind? What do you think Prime Minister Brown was thinking each and everytime he had to make a law, impose a tax, etc.? "Better not piss Murdoch off." What do you think Prime Minister Cameron is thinking? I guess he was lunching with Murdoch & Brooks for shits and giggles. Police and Politicians know they must do what they are told to get and keep their jobs. I shudder to think what it would look like if Murdoch grabbed that microphone, like Elvis on steroids, and belted out all the dirt on me. OUCH. And I'm pretty clean.
And you want to know why Health Care Reform had the "reform" stripped out of it? You want to know why Bush Tax Breaks will stay for the rich? You want to know why bailout money went to the scoundrels who ripped us off? You want to know why Geithneris sitting pretty next to Obama? You want to know why all of our tax money went to 2.5 wars - or better yet, went to large corporations which made tons of money with non-bid contracts. We didn't lose money it was merely redistributed. You want to know why large corporations don't pay taxes?
Not only does pleasing the people like Murdoch help you not lose your job, if you act like a crazy nut, and stick to his script, he will allow you to be voted in. I guess John Kerry didn't get that memo.
So if you dare say "phone hacking scandel" to anyone you should be slapped and sent to bed without your dinner. While you are asleep they will keep steeling from you.
I wonder why the "media" keeps trying to sequester this to the realm of "phone hacking?" So stop buying the shyte they are selling us.
Wow, what if we reduced this to a movie, let's say, a movie called it "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." Here is how that movie was received in 1939.
When it was first released, the film premiered in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., on October 17, 1939, sponsored by the National Press Club, an event to which 4,000 guests were invited, including 45 senators. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was attacked by the Washington press, and politicians in the U.S. Congress, as anti-American and pro-Communist for its portrayal of corruption in the American government. While Capra claims in his autobiography that some senators walked out of the premiere, contemporary press accounts are unclear about whether this occurred or not, or whether senators yelled back at the screen during the film.
It is known that Alben W. Barkley, the Senate Majority Leader, called the film "silly and stupid," and said it "makes the Senate look like a bunch of crooks." He also remarked that the film was "a grotesque distortion" of the Senate, "as grotesque as anything ever seen! Imagine the Vice President of the United States winking at a pretty girl in the gallery in order to encourage a filibuster!" Barkley thought the film "...showed the Senate as the biggest aggregation of nincompoops on record!"
Pete Harrison, a respected journalist, suggested that the Senate pass a bill allowing theatre owners to refuse to show films that "were not in the best interest of our country."That did not happen, but one of the ways that some senators attempted to retaliate for the damage they felt the film had done to the reputation of their institution was by pushing the passage of the Neely Anti-Block Booking Bill, which eventually led to the breakup of the studio-owned theater chains in the late 1940s. Columbia responded by distributing a program which put forward the film's patriotism and support of democracy, and publicized the film's many positive reviews.
Other objections were voiced as well. Joseph P. Kennedy, the American Ambassador to Great Britain, wrote to Capra and Columbia head Harry Cohn to say that he feared the film would damage "America's prestige in Europe", and because of this urged that it be withdrawn from European release. Capra and Cohn responded, citing the film's review, which mollified Kennedy to the extent that he never followed up, although he privately still had doubts about the film.