Well, there was that fairly recent item that Ailes' management of the little local papers he owns were spying on the news staff and subjecting them to various indignities, so, it's not as if Ailes is philosophically opposed to the practice.
But, I'll wager that in this country, it's far more likely that the government has been spying on politicians, and then leaking the personal information garnered to Fox News and right-wing online sites such as The Daily Cholera, because we already have good examples of that (the transmission of Valerie Plame's name to Novak comes to mind in this regard).
adding that the problem over here will be in how to unwind the spook's* spying from Murdoch's without spilling the entire operation. and yes, I do think that if an independent, full investigation were launched you'd find that there is significant cooperation between Murdoch's ops the GOP and their operatives in the Alphabet Agencies.
*spooks include FBI, local PD, CIA, NSA and any of the other alphabet orgs that have been 'making lists'
Anonymous... I don't think they've got a thing on Obama, if they did (or if there was anything 'to get') there wouldn't have been the 'Birther' nonsense, there would have been something that actually had merit, or at least something approaching merit... as it is, the best they can do is trot out fake birth certificates from Kenya and screech that he's all muslimly while denouncing his Christian minister...
as to Obama's 'negotiating' abilities and the policies he's pushing for 'recovery', that can be attributed to the company he keeps, and his own willingness to be 'accommodating' to fools.
Maybe they don't have a thing on Obama and he is just a milquetoast. But then again..why use anything of merit when he is so useful to the company he keeps. Fake Kenyan birth certificates et al are just helpful reminders of how it is done.
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Paging Matt Taibbi.
Just to be sure what the guestion is... When will we be informed ,rather than did they. The former... 20+ years... the latter, No shit Watson.
Well, there was that fairly recent item that Ailes' management of the little local papers he owns were spying on the news staff and subjecting them to various indignities, so, it's not as if Ailes is philosophically opposed to the practice.
But, I'll wager that in this country, it's far more likely that the government has been spying on politicians, and then leaking the personal information garnered to Fox News and right-wing online sites such as The Daily Cholera, because we already have good examples of that (the transmission of Valerie Plame's name to Novak comes to mind in this regard).
Montag, I'm going with both Murdoch's rags and the US spooks have been hoovering up info on their 'targets**' for years...
***anybody they damned well felt like...
information is power, and leverage if used well.
adding that the problem over here will be in how to unwind the spook's* spying from Murdoch's without spilling the entire operation. and yes, I do think that if an independent, full investigation were launched you'd find that there is significant cooperation between Murdoch's ops the GOP and their operatives in the Alphabet Agencies.
*spooks include FBI, local PD, CIA, NSA and any of the other alphabet orgs that have been 'making lists'
What have they got on Obama?
Anonymous... I don't think they've got a thing on Obama, if they did (or if there was anything 'to get') there wouldn't have been the 'Birther' nonsense, there would have been something that actually had merit, or at least something approaching merit... as it is, the best they can do is trot out fake birth certificates from Kenya and screech that he's all muslimly while denouncing his Christian minister...
as to Obama's 'negotiating' abilities and the policies he's pushing for 'recovery', that can be attributed to the company he keeps, and his own willingness to be 'accommodating' to fools.
Maybe they don't have a thing on Obama and he is just a milquetoast. But then again..why use anything of merit when he is so useful to the company he keeps. Fake Kenyan birth certificates et al are just helpful reminders of how it is done.
as if they didn't hack taibbi.
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