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.
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.”
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.
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.
It’s amazing we’re still dealing with this nonsense.
A plan to build a monument to Union soldiers at the site of the biggest Civil War battle in Florida (The Battle of Olustee) has hit a snag. A group of neo-confederate whackjobs are pledging a ‘second battle of Olustee’ to prevent building on this “hallowed grown [sic] where Southern blood was spilled in defense of Florida.”
Pass the popcorn. Wingnut Georgia Senate candidate Rep. Paul Brown bashes conservative Georgia Senate candidate Jack Kingston as Obamacare-curious.
Nelson Mandela has died, South African President Jacob Zuma is announcing on worldwide TV. Mandela was 95.
For Obama supporters, if there was one thing sweeter on election night than the President’s reelection, it was Fox News collective and very public meltdown with Karl Rove practically threatening to take the Fox News election counters hostage until they admitted that Romney could still win Ohio. David Folkenflik has written a new book about the Murdoch media empire where all this stuff gets discussed, some of the details of which he’s been sharing with us this week in TPMCafe Book Club. Here’s part of his look at that golden night …
Santorum: Fight against Obamacare like Mandela’s battle against Apartheid.