UPDATE: Great, so the story was wrong! Good to hear.  No prob.

With the White House showing such courage in the face of swine, I am much relieved that the reported cowardly buffoonery did not occur!
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Fox News is the scourge of billionaire-funded overseas propaganda in our free society.  Nothing less absolutely, and that's well been proved.  See, the old Frontline, if one was too frivolously unprofessional and irresponsible to take such a ridiculous/embarassing stand without the rank minimal step of looking it up!!   If it is really true that genuine journalists bandied together to defend repulsive disinformation merely because certain deal-pushing producers investing in Glenn Beck et al, comically also called themselves "journalists" when convenient, that is a black disgrace that cannot and should not be forgiven.  

Ever!  And they are no better than Beck, now that he is their cohort, if true (and pray it isn't this way!). And so I am still hoping that they are not so utterly **cretinous!**  I want to believe that these executives are not so spittingly disdainful of real journalists (who may have foolishly put their faith in their employers) to sell out all, so as to stand by a for-big-profit foreign propagandist scum.  One who has notoriously shamed several other countries along the way, as EVEN THE MOST CURSORY LOOK would reveal!!  The execs just *couldn't* be so breezily dismissive of their professional ethics, could they?

Say it ain't so, Joes!  Say you ain't the ultimate patsy tools and kindly explain ***why not***, okay?!

It turns out the far right has been CORRECT about this all along, and it is beyond upsetting!

Head-spinning!  The threat, of course, is that a foreigner not born or raised in U.S., without the innate love of country that such implies, either is himself or brings in people (a) determined to overturn the Constitutional order, and the foreigner (b) actually gets his hands on real power. At the heart of our Republic, the foreigner and his lieutenants use the bully pulpit, move political parties, influence people at every level. Not one of us, he uses his power to sow sedition, promote disorder, etc.

I feel so naïve! Beck has warned us about foreign infiltrators, Fox has warned us, Lou Dobbs has warned us, think of the millions that are in the hands of our enemies and the lengths they may have gone to make this happen! Even Bachmann is somewhat vindicated!

Morally destitute, born an alien to us, disdainful of national laws, he understands only combat and brutality. The people who work for him may be native-born Americans but even they have no loyalty to real democracy, elections,Constitutional order, and they work for somehow who now turns out be a foreigner!  One such infiltrator snarled, "If I just had somebody who was willing to sit on the other side... until the last shot is fired, we'd be fine."

That's right. Foreign scumbag investor Rupert Murdoch owns Newscorp, they own Fox News, and he still owns disgraceful newspapers in his distant homeland of Australia: Born overseas, he is without loyalty to the United States, not known to have lived in USA till he was 54 years old when he somehow technically became a citizen and strictly for business reasons. The ugly Australia record is familiar:  now technically living outside Australia, he backed one Aussie politician with vicious propaganda after the pre-existing Prime Minister refused his demand that be made ambassador from Australia to U.K. (did the rapscallion want to be an American citizen, yet somehow Australia's ambassador to yet a third country?). 

Murdoch's revenge:

"MUNGO MacCALLUM: The journalists' copy was being altered. They were given specific instructions on what they could write and what they couldn't write. And where the instructions weren't specific, they learnt pretty bloody quickly because nothing appeared in the paper if it didn't follow the line. It was the most extraordinarily ruthless and one-sided political coverage I think any of us can remember and we devoutly hope we never see it again.

MAX SUICH: It was the first time he'd really unleashed a ferocious campaign against a politician in an unfair fashion. The manner in which it was done was undoubtedly in breach of journalistic ethics.

KEN AULETTA: The one-sided coverage sparked demonstrations. Murdoch's papers were burned in the streets. And then Murdoch's own journalists walked out. It was a rarity-- reporters striking not over money, but ethics."  (Wow, character!  We don't see former journalist-turned prostitute Chris Wallace fussing about no ethics, do we?!)

As we see, it wasn't news there either.

"[N]ow he wanted a favor from Prime Minister Fraser: a change in the laws regarding the ownership of T.V. stations. Murdoch's plans to expand into foreign markets conflicted with laws requiring station owners to maintain their permanent residence in Australia. Fraser had the law changed."  Fraser was basically blackmailed by Murdoch that otherwise he'd unleash his hideous agitprop machine.

CONCLUSION:  We should have heeded the cautions of the far right and Fox itself.  A man born overseas pulling strings in our midst, we have a ruthless public enemy. It is an outrage that a foreign man with this odious record controls the thinking of millions of spineless sheep, and even potent madmen like Dick Cheney who required that Fox's tawdry propaganda be tuned in whereever he went (but the latter is a record of shame and failure all its own). There ought to be a law against this, but as if see from Australia, if such a noxious parasite gets those fangs in to begin with, it can grow so strong as to have the law itself changed, undermining the public interest.   Good God, and they TRIED TO WARN US!!!