John R. Houk
© April 29, 2017
I am a Fox News addict. It has not escaped my notice
that Fox News has gone through a major shake-up. The shake-up really
began with Gretchen Carlson exposing sexual harassment as an old boy culture
pervasive at Fox. The now fairly documented sexual harassment culture on
my Conservative channel was both disturbing and saddening.
Carlson’s successes have brought out into the public a slew
of Fox News employees doing some finger-pointing. The
finger-pointing has resulted in the revamping of the Fox News line-up
largely with the demise with news icon Bill O’Reilly.
I suspect some of the finger-pointing has devolved into
false accusations for a payday on the backs of actual victims. I wasn’t there
ergo, all I have are suspicions of actual and mythological victimhood
accusations.
With the demise of Roger Ailes as the one-time head of Fox
News, I have noticed the undesirable lurch to the Left. Many have noticed
this political spectrum shift before me, but I was unwilling to concur. It is
now obvious.
Still, Fox News is more Conservative than the other
news networks that seem more like Leftist propaganda machines than honest
reporters of the news. Nonetheless, the Fox News lurch to the Left suggests
another future outright Leftist propaganda machine coming soon to America’s
news landscape.
The blame for Fox’s deviation Left seems to upon owner
Rupert Murdoch’s sons – James
and Lachlan Murdoch.
Pamela Geller has found the insights of Cliff Kincaid on the
seeming impending death of a Conservative Fox News.
JRH 4/29/17
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The Left-Wing Takeover of Fox News
April 28, 2017
Many of us have seen this coming for a long time. The more powerful
Fox became (on the backs of the right), the more to Fox moved to the left.
Roger Ailes should never have been forced to resign, nor
Bill O’Reilly (even though I am not a fan). Rupert Murdoch’s two silver-spooned
stooges, James Murdoch (Tweedledee) and Lachlan Murdoch (Tweedledum) are
systematically dismantling the once-great network. And like all true leftists,
they are tone deaf to the cacophony of complaints.
The cringe-worthy Geraldo Rivera, Juan Williams, Martha
McCallum, Bob Beckel (!), why not Tomi Lahren? ….
I turned it off after the election. The only place for Conservatives to get our
news is online.
There is a great opportunity for a right-of-center news
channel. It seems inevitable. And so we wait the second coming of a
conservative network, where the work of my colleagues and I will have a home.
Serial plagiarists such as Fareed Zakaria are just as
powerful as ever on CNN, but a hint of indiscretion, and Fox cuts you loose. We
still have Hannity. But for how long? Only Rupert knows. Once Rupert goes, it’s
over.
THE LEFT-WING TAKEOVER OF FOX
NEWS
By Cliff Kincaid, April 28,
When Bill O’Reilly left Fox News he
declared, “I am very confident the truth will come out and when it does I don’t
know if you are going to be surprised, but I think you are going to be shaken
as I am.” Some observers think he was referring not to the sexual harassment
allegations against him, but to behind-the-scenes maneuvers by one of Rupert
Murdoch’s sons, James, and his very liberal wife, Kathryn. Her bio says,
“Between 2007-2011, Ms. Murdoch served as Director of Strategy &
Communications for the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) where she also managed
CCI ‘s partnership with Microsoft in the development of a global greenhouse gas
emissions tracking software.”
In short, she is a globalist
insider who sees the green hysteria as a viable way to control people and their
lifestyles.
We warned back in 2007 in our
column, “Rupert Murdoch Picks Liberal Son as
Successor,” that James Murdoch was maneuvering to take control of
Fox News. We also noted that James Murdoch “buys into global warming hysteria,”
and that his liberal philosophy on environmental and other matters “could
become the party line” of the Fox News Channel.
It turns out that his wife is more
of an environmental zealot than he is.
Accuracy in Media had attended the
annual meeting of the Fox News parent company, raising concern about James
Murdoch’s increasing influence in the company and his attacks on conservative
groups, such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). He wrote an article for the Guardian
attacking CEI for dispensing “inaccurate propaganda” about the global warming
issue.
Of course, many conservatives
regard the theory of man-made global warming as a hoax and a means by which
government at many levels hopes to control, regulate and tax the use of natural
resources.
Referring to the alleged effects of
global warming, now called climate change, James Murdoch said, “We can have an
enormous impact if we encourage our customers to make simple, effective changes
in their lifestyles.”
That’s easy for James and Kathryn
Murdoch to say; he is the heir to a multi-billion dollar fortune. “The Murdoch
fortune now stands at around $14 billion,” noted the publication
Inside Philanthropy in 2015. “Because Rupert seems to have zero interest in
harnessing this wealth to philanthropy, that challenge will fall to his kids.”
One of the “focus areas” of the
Murdochs’ Quadrivium Foundation is “natural resources.” But rather than exploit
them for the good of humanity, the foundation supports “innovation” in their
use. This is code, as James Murdoch suggested in his Guardian article, for
restricting the economic lifestyle choices of consumers.
A link from their foundation
directs people to the webpage of the
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and an advertisement denouncing President
Trump for “failing the environment.” Page 25 of the EDF annual report lists
“Kathryn Murdoch, President, Quadrivium Foundation,” as a member of the Board
of Directors. “At the end of fiscal 2016,” the report states, “EDF’s net assets
stood at $217 million, providing a strong financial foundation as we pursue our
ambitious environmental goals.”
With the Murdoch billions behind
them, those “goals,” which include what the United Nations calls a new
“economic development model” to replace global capitalism, could become a
reality.
That was the goal, at least, until
Donald Trump became president and, as AIM’s Roger Aronoff recently noted, indicated his determination
to confront the global “climate change agenda.”
The Gateway Pundit website notes that Kathryn Murdoch
regularly trashes Trump on Twitter. Indeed, her Twitter feed goes after many different conservative
personalities and policies of all kinds. A collection of her most significant Tweets includes
attacks on Trump aide Steve Bannon, and despondency over Trump’s election
victory. On the other hand, she praised Fox News personality Shepard Smith for
criticizing Trump.
Her Tweets have included messages
such as:
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A vote for Trump is a vote
for climate catastrophe.
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Can we impeach a candidate?
Seriously.
§
Happy to see this on Fox
News. The final argument for Hillary Clinton, based on 3 indisputable facts.
The latter was a reference to a Lanny Davis pro-Hillary article on
the Fox News website.
When her husband and his brother
Lachlan move to the left, she is quick to retweet those comments, such as when
they sent a letter declaring, “We deeply value diversity and believe
immigration an essential part of America’s strength.” The letter was intended
as a rebuff to President Trump’s effort to restrict the entry into the U.S. of
illegal aliens and Islamic terrorists.
Despite the Murdochs’ disdain for
the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the likelihood that the group
will receive less and less coverage from Fox News, its staffers are
demonstrating significant clout with the new Trump administration. In regard to
Trump’s promise during the campaign to withdraw from the Paris climate
agreement, The Washington Times reports that Trump’s top
advisers have received a unique proposal from CEI, arguing that the agreement
be declared a treaty and sent to the Senate to be killed.
CEI’s interesting proposal would
rectify former President Obama’s unconstitutional decision to make the Paris
accord into an executive agreement, without the need for Congressional input or
approval. By declaring it to be a treaty and sending it to the Senate, where it
is not likely to get the necessary two-thirds vote for ratification, Trump
could force lawmakers to take a stand on what CEI calls its demands for “regulations that will force
Americans to pay more and more for energy.”
CEI’s message to Trump is, “Don’t
listen to the Swamp. Please keep your campaign promise to withdraw the United
States from the U.N. Paris Climate Treaty and send it to the Senate for a
vote.”
The Fox News coverage of this
showdown will be another indication of the pull that James and Kathryn Murdoch
are starting to exert over the once “conservative” news channel.
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The New Murdoch Left
John R. Houk
© April 29, 2017
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Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense
Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The
Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop
the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.
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