Ron Fournier, sometime reporter now columnist at large at National Journal, seems to have reached his limit with Obama and Obamacare and just blown some sort of a fuse. “This [White House] is a propaganda outfit, that they do put out government sponsored propaganda, and they are running a government-sponsored media organization.” Here the rant here.
On his new DC radio show “Sports Junkies”, foreign Mayor Rob Ford denied trying to buy his notorious crack video tape and also trashed Obamacare.
Sarah Palin accepts Martin Bashir’s apology but hopes his attack on her doesn’t stop people from doing things like starting a business or “changing within their family.”
Today at TPM Cafe Book Club: An excerpt from David Folkenflik’s Murdoch’s World talks about how Rupert Murdoch wanted the Wall Street Journal to be the crown jewel of his media empire. “And yet Murdoch did not much like the Journal itself,” Folkenflik writes.
Don’t forget, we have a chat with Folkenflik tomorrow at noon.
In this post from earlier this week about thirteen years of TPM reader emails, I offhandedly mentioned that I’d been using the same desktop computer (same model at work and at home) since 2006. And since then more than a few of you have written in to ask how that could possibly be – a guy who makes a reasonably good living, works on a computer basically everyday and lives and breathes in the world of technology goes almost eight years using the same computer?
This week NPR’s David Folkenflik is joining us to discuss the inner workings of the Murdoch media empire, the scandals that racked the company in the UK, the King Lear-like drama with his family, the perfection of bamboozlement as business model ™ in the US with Roger Ailes’ dukedom at Fox News. He’s got a fascinating piece up today about how Murdoch and Ailes built the Obama-era scream machine at Fox News. At noon on Friday, Folkenflik will be joining us at The Hive (sub req) to answer your questions about the inner-workings of Fox News, Ailes and all things Murdoch. Get your questions in now and then join us at noon on Friday.
According to a new police report, Mayor Ford apparently tried to buy the crack tape from the Somali drug dealers. But he only offered $5k!
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) warns that lying is part of Middle Eastern culture. So Iranians can’t be trusted. Watch.