To riff off the Alice Roosevelt Longworth line: if you don't have anything nice to say about Rupert Murdoch, go sit next to David Shuster. The MSNBCer and former Fox Newser has no love lost for his old employer.
Shuster's latest is that Hillary, she of long memory, will be holding a grudge against Murdoch, whose NewsCorp owns the New York Post and Fox News, for the unflattering coverage the Post gave Clinton in the closing days of the New Hampshire primary campaign.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH [hidden behind that NY Post front page]: I want to show you a couple of headlines here. We've been talking about this. Murdoch's papers went after her the past couple of days. I would guess that she probably doesn't feel too favorably towards him right now. You have some information on that.
DAVID SHUSTER: Yeah, I was talking to some Clinton supporters last night, some pretty key supporters, and they were saying that they have long been frustrated that Hillary Clinton has seemed to sometimes cozy up to Rupert Murdoch as he tries to sort of cover his bets over the last year. That she's very cordial to him and to Roger Ailes at Fox News. And these Clinton supporters were saying last night that Hillary Clinton is going to have a changed, a new sort of frame of reference toward Rupert Murdoch because they are convinced that the Clintons are going to see that Rupert Murdoch was essentially kicking her when the Murdoch empire felt that she was down with the sort of headline that you were just showing.
And they were suggesting that while it was a bad night for Barack Obama, that the person who's got the worst hangover right now is Rupert Murdoch. Because if Hillary Clinton goes on to win this thing, the Clinton people, who have very long memories for how the media treats them, are not going to forget that New York Post headline from yesterday and from Monday morning.
Mika Brzezinski chimed in approvingly: "absolutely right."
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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Tanking
January 9, 2008 - 10:41 ET by Gat New YorkMorning Joe is tanking according to the ratings vs. Fox N Friends.
I wonder where Scarborough will get his next job now that he's become a left wing apologist?
I used to really like Joe.
January 9, 2008 - 10:43 ET by Missouri ConservativeA couple of years ago before MSNBC turned left, Scarborough Country was actually a really good show. Maybe he'll come to Fox...they need to shake up their line-up a bit, IMO.
"women and minorities hardest hit"
The Clintons holding a grudge? What else is new.
January 9, 2008 - 10:41 ET by Missouri ConservativeThese people have made a living by destroying their enemies. Not defeating them, destroying them.
Although, it must be said that anything that comes out of David Shuster's mouth (especially when he cites anonymous sources) must be taken with a grain of salt.
"women and minorities hardest hit"
Baloney, Salami, Pastrami
January 9, 2008 - 10:47 ET by JayTeeMurdoch doesn't do Fox News in Person. Murdoch doesnt' do polls showing Obama by double Digits.......or maybe FOX news does FOX polls, but Fox doesn't push it's polls as much as they tout the polls from Rasmussen and Zogby and others.
This is an MSM attack on Fox and company......the MSM is looking at their Ratings, and they think this latest round of "wrongness" will Drop even more viewers of election news.
People will start waiting until the polls close, before believing anything the MSM says, or Fox, or Pollsters for that matter.
When I was living in Seattle in the late 70's, early 80's, I left work at 5 PM to go Vote, only to hear the Presidential winner was already declared by the MSM based upon the East Coast numbers. I went into the Voting both, and voted for the "Projected" Loser, as I wanted the media NOT to tell me who won, and tried to prove them wrong with my one single vote. It didn't work, but I still did the opposite of what the Media predicted as a feel good, spiteful, revenge gesture.
Enter New Hampshire...after all, they were NOT voting for the REAL president, and will get to VOTE a 2nd time at a later date.
Anyone watch the CNN
January 9, 2008 - 10:49 ET by BruzillaAnyone watch the CNN coverage of the election before the results started coming in? Wolf Blitzer and company were downright brutal in their comments about Hillary. Then Lou Dobbs came on and things got even worse. I didn't hear anything that was unduly biased or negative towards Clinton from FNC.
Murdoch not liked by Clinton? Say it ain't so!!!
January 9, 2008 - 10:59 ET by planetrepublicanSo what else is new? This is news? Since when did Murdoch ever like the Clinton's or vice-versa?
SHUSTER: the Clinton
January 9, 2008 - 11:10 ET by Jack BauerHe could have added, "Not that we have anything to worry about on our network. The Clintons love MSNBC..."
But why doesn't Shuster and his pals who are in the "know" spell out his veiled threat?
What exactly are the Clintons going to do. Something illegal perhaps? Something contrary to the 1st Amendment?
I mean, threatening NOT to talk to Fox doesn't really cut it. They won't do that already.
So come on Shuster, how about doing a little investigatin'
DISGRUNTLED EX-EMPLOYEE RANT
January 9, 2008 - 12:29 ET by Der AlteShuster really has an ax to grind with Fox. Did he leave on his own accord or was it one of those "want to spend more time with my family" reasons? If they do performance reviews at Fox did he get "needs improvement" or "meets expectations"? What a blow hard!
Analysis
January 9, 2008 - 16:37 ET by deerjerkydaveI heard that a lot of the independants who were intending to vote for Obama made a last second switch to McCain because they all thought that Obama was going to easily win thanks to info from big media. If this is true, it handed Hillary and McCain their wins, when it should have been Obama and Romney!