Bad Deeds for 2-5-07

Fox News Parent Company CEO Rupert Murdoch Confesses To Propaganda On Iraq – News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch was part of a panel at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday. Asked if his News Corp. (parent of Fox News) managed to shape the agenda on the war in Iraq, Murdoch said: “No, I don’t think so. We tried.” Asked by panel moderator Charlie Rose for further comment, he said, “We basically supported the Bush policy in the Middle East…”

Good Deed ! – Conservative Republican Tells Truth! – Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey says DeLay is a bad person, Bush is a failure. From an interview with McClatchy Newspapers:

Q. Did Tom DeLay become a liability to the party?
A. Oh yeah. I’m amazed at the number of people who tell me this. I have my own understandings and feelings about Tom DeLay. . . . I don’t believe he’s a good person and I don’t believe he is a person who should have been in public office.

Q. Why don’t you like him?
A. I don’t like sneaky, conniving people. I don’t like people who get behind closed doors and contrive against other people. (He) has had — what’s the word I want? — an aggressive tendency to create the opportunity to do back-door, behind-the-door, closed-door, dark-room contrivances against people. I just consider that unacceptable.

Q. Did he do that in redistricting? (DeLay pressured the Texas legislature to redraw congressional boundaries to favor Republican members of Congress.)

A. What Tom Delay did in redistricting was more correct than it was improper. … Poor old Tom. He could even make doing the right thing look ugly in how he did it.

Q. Is George W. Bush a failed president?
A. I’ve said over the years that every president either ends up a pleasant surprise or a bitter disappointment. And we haven’t had a pleasant surprise since Ronald Reagan. I don’t see how anybody can look at the Bush presidency and say this was a success in public policy terms.

Q. Your views on the Iraq war?
A. I’m not sure that it was the right thing to do. You might say removing Saddam from power was a right thing to do. Maybe it was, but was that necessarily then our responsibility to do that? And was it our responsibility to do that by invading a country that had in no way declared any war on us?

OK, back to the bad deeds …
More Fox News Bashing Democrats
From the “Cavuto on Business” show, 2/3/07:
Neil Cavuto: “My own FOX on the Spot. Al Gore. He’s already been nominated for the Nobel Prize. I think he’s going to get it, not because he’s into global warming, but because he’s into bashing the President and they love that stuff in Sweden. Ben, what do you think of that?” –

Ben Stein: “I’m not a big fan of Al Gore. I really think he should be a subject for testing of mental disease drugs.”
(Have you written letters to the sponsors telling them how you feel?)

Iraq War Spurs Most Refugees Since 1948 – Nearly 2 million Iraqis — about 8 percent of the prewar population — have embarked on a desperate migration

McCain Hiring People He Called “Over The Line” In 2000

Civil rights-era killers escape justice – Despite high-profile convictions in the past two decades, most killers from the civil rights era will go unpunished. Many of the murder cases from 1954 to 1968, the years that bracket the height of the civil rights movement, were not investigated or given cursory attention, leaving authorities little to work with today.

The I.R.S. commissioner said the government could recover between $50 billion and $100 billion in unpaid taxes, but just like in Iraq, the Bush Administration comes up with their own figures

And just for fun

Regards,

Jim