Thread: Never under-estimate the British

They taught the Americans most of what they know.

Fox's parent company is in deep doodoo.

News International, the stable of that Australian blight on the human race, Rupert Murdoch, has been discovered in Britain (courtesy of News of the World) to have tapped the phones of murder and terrorism victims and, now, soldiers killed in Afghanistan as well as a multitude of "celebrities" ("celebrated" primarily only because News of the World tapped their phones).

And Britain doesn't even have a Patriot Act that News of the World can use to justify these noxious intrusions.

Caught up in this are the British police who accepted bribes to feed News of the World titbits they thought the British public should know about for a fee in addition to the cost they already paid for actually running police activities.

The British PM was seen yesterday orgasmically venting fury in Parliament about stuff he had known about for years. And then, with a vehemence not seen in the British parliament since Blair promised his troth to George W Bush, he ordered the setting up of a Police enquiry to examine the corruption of .. er .. the Police.

And I thought the Americans were weird.

No matter. Rupert Murdoch is in the gun, primed, and about to be detonated. I must watch more Fox News for a minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow analysis and outcome of the enthralling saga about to unravel.

It could be another Casey Anthony drama of tragedic and comical proportions.

I'm pretty sure this has been posted already. Like, days ago.
I guess things don't filter out to the sheep patch as fast as they use to.

Originally Posted by keymanjim

I'm pretty sure this has been posted already. Like, days ago.
I guess things don't filter out to the sheep patch as fast as they use to.

So Thursday 7 July was several days ago, was it?

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Expand News of the World offices. Photo / APThe phone-hacking crisis consuming Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper has deepened on Thursday after reports that relatives of dead soldiers may had been targeted.

And not, as most Americans are currently enjoying, Wednesday 6 July?

Nothing quite like seeing one's own vassal state flounder about in a condition of general nonplussance and incompetence.

In a gallant effort to avoid the possibly unhappy intrusion of an independent authority into the business of examining, er, Police business, the British PM - in the tradition of that renowned naval hero, Vice Admiral The Rt Hon. Horatio Cameron - held a telescope to his blind eye:

[Cameron rejected calls by opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband for an immediate public inquiry "because you must not jeopardise the police investigation"....

... into itself.

Originally Posted by Plymouth

Nothing quite like seeing one's own vassal state flounder about in a condition of general nonplussance and incompetence.

Indeed.

The Chinese are writhing in laughter.

On the surface, it looks as though Murdoch is doing a principled thing in abolishing News of the World.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...world-to-close

The principle being that when your advertisers and readers are deserting you in droves and you and your staff are under investigation for sundry criminal behaviours, things can probably only get worse. Best to remove as much evidence as possible before that day arrives.

Originally Posted by Awryly

Indeed.

The Chinese are writhing in laughter.

I'd hardly say we're a vassal.

The Murdoch style of journalistic depravity exhibited by News of the World in the UK is unlikely not to be also pursued in Murdoch's US media outlets.

Media Matters, which monitors right-wing media outlets, recently confronted Murdoch personally on camera whether he could assure Americans that his US outlets had not committed any phone hacking. Murdoch replied: "I have nothing to say."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...-us?intcmp=239

"Nothing to say" is hardly a resounding denial that Americans are not also being subjected to phone-hacking.

No doubt we will find out if Murdoch treats Americans any differently from the way he treats Brits.

Ilyse Hogue, who runs Media Matters' News Corp Watch project, said that they were making formal approaches to the US Congress. The campaign is calling on congressional committees responsible for protecting the privacy of American citizens to launch investigations into whether any breaches have been carried out by the company in the US.

And the extent to which he is prepared to lie about it.

Hold on...

I thought the Left championed criminal hackers like Wikileaks, Anonymous and the Lulzsec gang who exposed the supposed "truth"??