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SHAME ON Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rupert Murdoch, the right-wing publishing mogul, is hosting a fund-raiser in July for her Senate reelection campaign. Her explanation is that Murdoch, based in New York, is an important constituent: ''I'm very gratified that he thinks I'm doing a good job." Murdoch runs Fox television, home of Bill O'Reilly and company. No far-right media enterprise has been more relentlessly dishonest in its efforts to destroy American liberalism in general and the Clintons in particular. Fox was prime cheerleader for the bogus Whitewater investigation and the impeachment campaign against Bill Clinton. Fox exists to oppose every...

MEDIA MEGA-MOGUL Rupert Murdoch is offering himself as a lunch date on eBay. Bidders have will until November 10th to secure lunch in a private executive dining room at News Corporation’s world headquarters in Manhattan with one of the world’s most powerful men.

• Question 3 -- What 'misjudgments' has Bush made? • Question 4 -- Who's top target, bin Laden or Saddam? • Question 6 -- When should troops come home? • Question 7 -- Are U.S. soldiers dying for a mistake? • Question 8 -- What was the 'miscalculation' in Iraq? • Question 9 -- When has Bush misled the public? • Question 10 -- Has the war been worth the loss of life? • Question 11 -- When will the war in Iraq end? • Question 12 -- Would Bush lead another pre-emptive war?

Senators Go After Murdoch May23, 2003 On Friday, I rolled you some sound bites of Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Fritz "Foghorn Leghorn" Hollings (D-SC) and Ol' Helmet Head Byron Dorgan (D-ND) grilling News Corp's Rupert Murdoch in Senate. The topic was supposed to be whether Murdoch ought to be able to buy DirecTV. The satellite company has no political bent, yet all the questions focused on the fact that Murdoch gives the conservative point of view airtime and print space! Boxer whined that someone on Fox News Channel called France and Germany "the Axis of Weasels." Hollings clucked to Murdoch,...

Contrary to the impression put about by foreigners, the American public can think for themselves There have been times, living in America of late, when it seemed I was back in the Communist Moscow I left a dozen years ago. Turn on the local all-news radio station, and between the war bulletins, there's Lockheed Martin running spots extolling its commitment to national security and American greatness.Switch to cable TV and reporters breathlessly relay the latest wisdom from the usual un-named "senior administration officials", keeping us on the straight and narrow.Everyone, it seems, is on-side and on-message. Just like it used...