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(SeattlePI)   Rupert Murdoch would like you to know he's totally in favor of a woman's right to vote, even if he lets whack-jobs appear on his TV networks who say it was "the greatest mistake America ever made"   (blog.seattlepi.com) divider line 80
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2012-05-09 11:25:26 AM
This is very easy to understand. See, Murdoch has the superhuman ability to spend his time micromanaging every detail of his media empire while simultaneously spending all his time being completely removed from the day to day managing of his business.

He is your standard businessman/politician prototype - able to accept praise and take credit for his many accomplishments while not actually being responsible for any failures. The Romneybot prototype was fashioned after Murdoch, but it still needs some tweaking.
 
2012-05-09 11:25:45 AM
Wow, I was guessing subby was stretching a bit. Not at all!

But at no point have remarks approached those made in a recent sermon by Rev. Peterson, a champion of the Tea Party movement, who declared:

"I think that one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote. We should've never turned this over to women. And these women voting are the wrong people. They're voting in people who are evil who agree with them, who're gonna take us down this pathway of destruction.


But don't you dare say they're waging war against women.

This guy should team up with that pastor who said you should break your son's wrist if it goes limp, and you should force your athletic daughter to put on a dress and smell like a girl. They could make a buddy movie!
 
2012-05-09 11:26:26 AM
This is silly, everyone knows the greatest mistake America ever made was new coke.
 
2012-05-09 11:29:19 AM
Murdoch has very little direct editorial control over Fox News.
 
2012-05-09 12:01:16 PM
RexTalionis: MurdochReality has very little direct editorial control over Fox News.
 
2012-05-09 12:02:56 PM
Certainly true. Ruper Murdoch believes the greatest mistake America ever made was freeing the woolies.
 
2012-05-09 12:13:45 PM
That's how the right-wing hate machine works, folks.

1) Make a patently absurd, fascist statement.
2) Make sure its presented in a way that rings with the audience.
3) Wait for furor.
4) Have alternate staffer offer a weak non-apology.
5) Lather, rinse, repeat.

End result: the mouth-breathing retards that comprise the Fox Faithful now seriously wonder if women's suffrage should be repealed so they can finally vote down welfare, education and equal rights protections.
 
2012-05-09 12:24:44 PM
Diogenes: Wow, I was guessing subby was stretching a bit. Not at all!

But at no point have remarks approached those made in a recent sermon by Rev. Peterson, a champion of the Tea Party movement, who declared:

"I think that one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote. We should've never turned this over to women. And these women voting are the wrong people. They're voting in people who are evil who agree with them, who're gonna take us down this pathway of destruction.

But don't you dare say they're waging war against women.

This guy should team up with that pastor who said you should break your son's wrist if it goes limp, and you should force your athletic daughter to put on a dress and smell like a girl. They could make a buddy movie!


I was rather shocked the first time I heard this sentiment openly, and without a trace of shame expressed when I was "freep Diving" one day. It was from a father who proudly was recounting how his 11-year old daughter matter of factly told him she didn't think women should vote because they aren't smart enough to handle the responsibility.

Judging by the comments I read that day, and others on any article talking about Romney's "gender gap" that's posted there, this is apparently a "thing" now with the right wing
 
2012-05-09 12:27:06 PM
RexTalionis: Murdoch has very little direct editorial control over Fox News.

True, Roger Ailes is the guy that programs the daily talking points into the heads of their interchangeable blond anchors every morning. But then, Murdoch hired, and can easily fire, Ailes, so it may not be fair to say "he has no control"
 
2012-05-09 12:33:32 PM
AKTurkey: This is silly, everyone knows the greatest mistake America ever made was new coke.

I personally thought it was Crystal Pepsi.
 
2012-05-09 01:01:18 PM
So which is it... you want him controlling what his reporters say or not?
 
2012-05-09 01:14:43 PM
antidisestablishmentarianism: AKTurkey: This is silly, everyone knows the greatest mistake America ever made was new coke.

I personally thought it was Crystal Pepsi.


Oddly enough, both are the brain child of B-Rock Husyourdaddy Fartbongo
 
2012-05-09 01:24:30 PM
Is he going to kick off anytime soon? Because that would be great.
 
2012-05-09 01:36:28 PM
Mugato: Is he going to kick off anytime soon? Because that would be great.

Mugato: Is he going to kick off anytime soon? Because that would be great.

I dunno. It looks like his kid might be worse.
 
2012-05-09 02:27:10 PM
Wimminz belong in the kitchen, not the voting booth.
GIT ME A GOD DAMN SAMMICH BIATCH!
 
2012-05-09 02:52:48 PM
So when is Fox News going to repudiate and then terminate the person who said this?
 
2012-05-09 03:17:53 PM
It's just another example of the liberal media bias.
 
2012-05-09 03:20:37 PM
The man has a point. Letting women make their own choices is how we ended up with shiat like Twilight and Justin Bieber.
 
2012-05-09 03:20:56 PM
I truly believe we need to bring an end to the suffrage of women.
 
2012-05-09 03:22:54 PM
Thankfully those with much fatness are too lazy to make it to the polls and cannot vote so I am not worried about any other groups who cannot do the voting.
 
2012-05-09 03:24:52 PM
I thought Anne whatsername was trolling when she said this. Now, I can't even tell the trolls from the actual Fox News talking points.

I'm beginning to think Fox News is being this ridiculous because they want Obama to win. This isn't out of the question- having a pro-business Democrat in office is very lucrative for Fox.
 
2012-05-09 03:26:00 PM
What. The. Fark. is wrong with people?!? Did I just wake up if farking Afganistan? goddammitsomuch
 
2012-05-09 03:26:17 PM
Aar1012: This is silly, everyone knows the greatest mistake America ever made was new coke.

I personally thought it was Crystal Pepsi.

Oddly enough, both are the brain child of B-Rock Husyourdaddy Fartbongo


I thought it was TotalFark.
 
2012-05-09 03:27:00 PM
Problem: Women tend to vote for socially-liberal things.
Solution: Women are too stupid to know how to vote right!
Bonus: The liberals they're voting for are elitist!
 
2012-05-09 03:28:35 PM
You know he sucks the Devil's cock, right? He wont die for another 200 more years.
 
2012-05-09 03:28:52 PM
The guy that said that is either a serious whack job who is in need of medicating, or a person who is being paid very well to say incendiary things that he doesn't believe in. I'm leaning towards the fact that he is being paid.
 
2012-05-09 03:30:11 PM
Peterson says women are too emotional:

"You walk up to them with an issue, they freak out right away," he said. "They go nuts. They get mad. They get upset, just like that. They have no patience because it's not in their nature. They don't have love."

Maybe it's just you, Rev.
 
2012-05-09 03:31:05 PM
Just as long as he doesn't come out in favor of women's right to drive - because that truly is the greatest mistake America ever made.

www.tocmp.com
 
2012-05-09 03:33:53 PM
umad: The man has a point. Letting women make their own choices is how we ended up with shiat like Twilight and Justin Bieber.

But woman deserve...

Um, that is to say....

/Goddamnitsomuch
 
2012-05-09 03:34:46 PM
BarkingUnicorn: Peterson says women are too emotional:

"You walk up to them with an issue, they freak out right away," he said. "They go nuts. They get mad. They get upset, just like that. They have no patience because it's not in their nature. They don't have love."

Maybe it's just you, Rev.


Could be his sample size too: If YOU were his wife would you be able to restrain yourself from hauling off and smacking about every third time he opened his mouth
 
2012-05-09 03:36:55 PM
umad: The man has a point. Letting women make their own choices is how we ended up with shiat like Twilight and Justin Bieber.

So you're saying that if we prevent women from making their own choices, we won't end up with things like the Lifetime network?

/hmmmmm....
 
2012-05-09 03:37:54 PM
A guy once told me:

They should never have given women the right to vote. Women got the right to vote and men went off to WW1. When the men got back drinking, drugs whoring and gambling were all illegal.
 
2012-05-09 03:41:03 PM
Magorn: I was rather shocked the first time I heard this sentiment openly, and without a trace of shame expressed when I was "freep Diving" one day. It was from a father who proudly was recounting how his 11-year old daughter matter of factly told him she didn't think women should vote because they aren't smart enough to handle the responsibility.

I call bullshiat. No Freeper ever gets out of his parent's basement long enough to even TRY to get laid, let alone have a child.
 
2012-05-09 03:41:53 PM
Magorn: BarkingUnicorn: Peterson says women are too emotional:

"You walk up to them with an issue, they freak out right away," he said. "They go nuts. They get mad. They get upset, just like that. They have no patience because it's not in their nature. They don't have love."

Maybe it's just you, Rev.

Could be his sample size too: If YOU were his wife would you be able to restrain yourself from hauling off and smacking about every third time he opened his mouth


Of course, how smart could she be to marry someone who thinks she's lucky to be a second-class citizen?
 
2012-05-09 03:43:44 PM
you know, these guys wouldn't be so quick to say this crap if roosevelt himself was still alive.

/Zombie Teddy 2012!
 
2012-05-09 03:44:18 PM
I've argued in the past, and I'll still argue anytime anywhere that America's biggest mistake was in not annexing the Sudetenland.
 
2012-05-09 03:45:46 PM
Sometimes I wonder what the straw would be that would make me seriously start looking to leave the US. Unfortunately by the time it happens I probably wouldn't be accepted elsewhere because I'd be too old.
 
2012-05-09 03:46:06 PM
Why would I give a fark what Rupert Murdoch thinks about anything?
 
2012-05-09 03:47:33 PM
America's biggest mistake, by far, was Paris Hilton.

Thanks to that worthless twat, it's now acceptable to be famous for....being famous.

See, e.g., Snooki, Tila Tequila, anyone named Kardashian, etc.
 
2012-05-09 03:48:17 PM
and, don't get me started on the Gadsden Purchase!!!!
 
2012-05-09 03:49:15 PM
As I've said elsewhere, this very well could be the downfall of the Republican party. There are a lot of similarities between how the Republicans are acting now, and how the Progressive Conservatives acted in the early 1990s.

Since confederation in 1867, like the US, Canada was a two party system for the most part. While third parties had been able to gain more leverage than in the US, it was essentially a race between the Liberals on the left and the Progressive Conservatives on the right. In the early 1990s the PCs were losing popularity from their majority, and an election was coming up. In focus groups, people said they didn't like the face of the Liberal leader, who had a deformity.

The PCs ran an ad campaign on this, and it backfired immensely. The deformity was caused be Bell's palsy, and the attack ads were compared to schoolyard bullying. What people say in a focus group versus how they actually feel can be two different things. The result of this caused the PCs to go from a 156 seat majority in the House to 2, losing official party status.

The point I'm getting at is that what some conservatives say they believe in can be quite different from what they actually believe. Sure many may claim they are God fearing and are devout Christians, and may very well be against abortion and gay marriage. But these same people also either are or have relationships with women. Abortion and gay marriage may not affect them personally, but losing access to contraceptives and being told that they are inferior and should be denied the right to vote from the party elite does. They may claim to be on side with these issues, but when alone in a voting booth, they are likely to let their true opinions be heard...
 
2012-05-09 03:57:20 PM
Janusdog: Sometimes I wonder what the straw would be that would make me seriously start looking to leave the US. Unfortunately by the time it happens I probably wouldn't be accepted elsewhere because I'd be too old.

My friends and I were considering Finland back when Santorum was winning primaries. Maybe it's time to reconsider.
 
2012-05-09 03:58:53 PM
I make a reference to the Gadsden Purchase and Drew gives me an add for Sheriff Joe Arpaio?

coincidence?....I think not
 
2012-05-09 04:01:34 PM
The Jami Turman Fan Club: I thought Anne whatsername was trolling when she said this. Now, I can't even tell the trolls from the actual Fox News talking points.

I'm beginning to think Fox News is being this ridiculous because they want Obama to win. This isn't out of the question- having a pro-business Democrat in office is very lucrative for Fox.


Not to mention great for their ratings.
 
2012-05-09 04:03:49 PM
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And now we're talking about it. It would not surprise me if In five years it is being discussed as a serious "policy" option.
 
2012-05-09 04:07:50 PM
add, ad samie same.
 
2012-05-09 04:15:45 PM
Murdoch can't vote here.
 
2012-05-09 04:20:05 PM
Hannity is on the board of advisers of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), a conservative religious exclusive gay sex group founded by Peterson.
 
2012-05-09 04:20:32 PM
Nadie_AZ: So when is Fox News going to repudiate and then terminate the person who said this?

Ah, see, he is only a "guest," not an employee, so not only does Fox not have to fire him, but this is how they get away with having this sort of stuff on their channel. They can just say "Hey, that's not OUR opinion, that's just what our guest said. We're merely presenting a diversity of opinions!"

The fact that Hannity never calls this guy on his BS is, of course, in no way meant to be an endorsement of his position. Ha ha, you silly, don't think that 'cause it's totally not true!
 
2012-05-09 04:22:09 PM
Well, there is the whole White Males of Age With Property argument for voting rights
 
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