then rupert murdoch tweeted.love when he does that about the cartoon's artist saying gerald scarfe has never reflected the opinions of the sunday times. nevertheless we owe major apology for grotesque offensive cartoon. so if the u.s., fox and murdoch's empire is -- doesn't this prove that murdoch who held a fund-raiser for hillary clinton who described himself as liberal, has no core ideology beyond making a buck? >> he's procapitallist. >> i love old navy. i love banana republic. they're the same company. he's never represented our views. well, he's employed by you! >> exactly i can see you not reading someone's entire article so maybe the last paragraph is racy. this is a cartoon. dude, you can see it. it's right there! >> it's not like some ecards, user generated content. some editor has to decide yes let's put this ad in our paper. >> he apologized via tweet which means he means it. for real. >> john: it is really him too. you know i guess he could apologize by writing me an e-mail. god knows he's probably h

murdoch is intimately familiar with this. a powerful voice with this. >> gun laws passed in australia after a tight legislation there, a gun culture like in america, has always been comfortable with guns. they passed some tough measures on some assault weapons. what a big difference it's made through the years. >> murdoch is an important figure for years. we talked about the president's need to lead on this. it's real. he needs to lead. at the same time, for legislation to get passed, conservative democrats in rural pro gun districts around the country. you have to look at people like rupert murdoch, does that position carry over to the fox news. it's easier for the "new york post" in liberal manhattan and the rest of the country. does fox news start to move? that's an important thing. doses orrin hatch saying he will not run for re-election in 2018, is he going to be a republican in the past worked with gun control advocates, will he be a leader on the republican side? those are the people to watch over the next few months.

last week murdoch employ a great event so stern and the weekly standard stephen hayes the magazine that got its start thanks to a generous grant from billionaire. feigned outrage over the campaign devoting six minutes of television to trashing the idea take a look. i usually try to be respectful of people have different views but there's no way to be respectful of that i mean it is a completely idiotic argument that has no basis in economic theory it doesn't make any sense on its face that we have four hundred twenty five billionaires in the united states with an average net worth of about four billion dollars each if you confiscated all of their wealth all of it in its entirety it would basically take care of the u.s. deficit for one year we didn't do nothing to solve our long term fiscal pride i think to begin with the billionaires campaign was never about and isn't about reducing the deficit we don't have a debt crisis in america we have a demand crisis which is why we also have an unemployment crisis that you could argue it's chicken and egg between the average working people don't

rupert murdoch rupert murdoch could could only be l a times in the chicago tribune as well as the fox empire as well as the new york post if these new rules are pushed through and we went through this conversation once in two thousand. and seven we're right back here again trying to allow these big corporations to own our media and the problem with that for women and for people of color is that report by the free press a couple of years ago found very clearly that women and minute minority run media is local media and that's real important so in norway i'm quite sure and iceland i believe but there's a number of principal scandinavian countries that have essentially quota systems in their political you know forty percent of the members of parliament will be will be female and it seems looking at that now it's been fifteen twenty years since that started that it's actually change the character and nature of their parliamentary process for the better. might we not consider doing something like this to you know it's a really interesting proposition because unfortunately you know as much

rupert murdoch profiting from the anti-american propaganda. words fail me. >> let's not forget what it's known for. something is wrong with the anti-american network. >> a clearly anti-american network called rotana. >> are you kidding me? thank is crazy. >> jon: a degree with you guys. we'llht baight ba[cheers and ap] >> jon: hey, welcome back. today, of course, the second thursday of the month which means it's time for our second thursday of the month baseball segment jon stewart's 7th inning kevetch brought to you by manny's favorite bash cue sauce giving the balls a soft and savory place to land. one of my favorite players. the baseball hall of fame inductees were announced. there's a lot to choose from. roger clemens, samey sosa, 609 dingers. barry bonds 672 i'll go with dingers. granted due to steroid use their bodies were 98% -- eight nerds really joined that. [ laughter ] which one of these cats is headed to cooperstown? >> on behalf of hall of fame chairman our board of directors, the entire staff in cooperstown and jack o'connell the

frankly, when things happen with murdoch and others, people scattered like crazy. nobody was standing up trying to say -- >> that is because there was no way to defend what they said. >> i think the murdoch thing was a little bit different. the fact is, we were not even prepared for -- we were not out front proactively talking about the issue. we let them do the groundwork and talk about the war on women. when that happened, the grounds more fertile for people to buy buy into and believe it. they had not heard anybody at the national level making a pro- life case in a good way. early making a positive case. they were not really talking about that issue this time. , a pro-choicet fundraising pack -- they train their candidates. they bring them in, give them -- murder boards where they fire question of them. >> i think they put a microchip in each of them. >> [laughter]they want more women, more pro-choice women candidates. we need to do that, not necessarily to get pro-life women candidates, but just to train our candidates how you answer. because the press is very

this stance to which murdoch still claims happens to be what paul ryan of these.the rape science three can provide more reminders that we met some of those fine nurse. [laughter] [applause] that's it. [cheers and applause] the internal politics of the cia and the couple of times dent in tehran is richard holmes served as american ambassador prior to the iranian revolution. this is about an hour. [applause] you. >> tha

[laughter] and murdoch. but macy -- i'll find it.if you think about what would have been if you called in a political consultant who specialized in women's issues and she said, i think you should have a couple candidates bring up the subject of rape. and not as an unmitigated evil -- [laughter] is after this because they think it's around the august supply of todd akin. [inaudible] >> great. [laughter] >> he travels with me. he's my pager. [laughter] that's a different one. yeah, that's three republican candidates discourse on the subject of rape. we could do that one. i'll never find the other one. i just evren about this. he's glad to be fired. i'm going to get another -- [laughter] this is called the female reproduction system lecture by representative todd akin, member of the house committee on science, space and technology. legitimate rape will shut the thing down. so she gets pregnant, it shows that her gown was cut way too low or shahani skirt and in some way she wanted to show off her shape and that's it was not legitimate ra

. >> the energy of the party is with the richard murdoch crowd. isn't jindal the same guy who signed off off on teaching creationism in school as science? he hasn't been clean -- >> equal time again. >> exactly. the consultants in the party understand they need to change. bobby jindal is an ambitious guy. for them to be viable as presidential candidates they need to change. in the political class believed you could change the base, they wouldn't be trying the shenanigans like trying to change the electoral college so the rural counties -- >> we'll be talking about that the rest of the year. they keep looking for ways to cheat. they do face a rural threat. even though they embrace hispanics, embrace the african-american viewer, they are doomed. this is coming out as fresh news. if you thought had republicans had learned their lesson on abortion talking about being the stupid party think again. katherine ann brown has brought up a bill that would make it illegal for rape victims to get abortions. tampering with evidence shall include procuring or fa

and rupert murdoch is a propagandist a peer. supreme who did bring on the panel this year anybody who would say anything negative i'm sure jim rogers would not on the panel or mark farmer anyone who's actually had a great track record in calling the twists and turns of the past decade know they got sympathizers lackeys like mario gabelli i'm sure he's back on there this guy can't find any of it was tied to his underwear. so and then finally i want to look at one other area which we have looked at over the past year and we covered this notion of the debt jubilee for example that occupy wall street has instituted morgan stanley presents seventeen big surprises that could rock markets and twenty thirteen they see debt cancellation the u.s. japan and u.k. announce an all debt resulting from their q.e. purchases is cancelled which would assuage the fears of reading agencies but anger bondholders. martin or these banks is going to be taken down shot you know like lehman brothers was executed and probably morgan stanley will be the ban

and just when you thought he had that whole jurisdiction wrapped up, there came richard myr murdo murdochthink it is something that god intended to happen. >> they are legitimate runners-up for the donald trump award. >> why did he sound ill? he always sounds like he's not feeling well on top of it. >> there were a number of male, mostly male, republican legislators in state legislatures across the country who made similar country who can remain nameless but let's give them a hat tip about being that stupid about women. >> how about the people who wrote the republican party's platform this year? they completely agreed. >> coming up, the person who we are not sorry to see go. also, we will be picking the person of the year, biggest winner, biggest loser. stay with us. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and they have six gra

now rupert murdoch tweeted something out today about maybe we'll finally get something done on gun laws. we'll have that a little later on in the show. tell your talk show hosts over there, your hosts of your big programs over there to cool it and be responsible, because the charlie daniels of the world and the newt -- the ted nugents of the world, they all pay attention to that channel, and they all thrive on fear. where is the responsibility of broadcasters and talkers in this country when this kind of garbage comes up? president obama is doing what the country wants him to do. this is where the people are. the election results haven't changed. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, will threats from the far right derail the president's sensible gun reforms? text a for yes. text b for now to 622639. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we'll bring results later on in the show. i'm joined tonight by bob shrum, contributor to interest daily beast. also david corn, msnbc analyst and d.c. bureau chief for mother jones. good evening. >> good

>> i think there was a political witch-hunt going on, a "get murdoch" campaign, and he inspired angerand resentment from the left in britain and i think certain newspapers decided we're going to go for him. and they got lucky and exposed what was a completely unacceptable practice going on amongst i think -- >> rose: you don't doubt it was going on. you doubt who might be involved. >> from the scale of what came out you have to assume it was going on in a widespread scale amongst, i believe, a small number of people. and i think that's what will emerge in the end. 101 journalists -- or 101 people, including journalists, have now been arrested for payments to officials and so on. >> rose: you're saying rebecca brooks will never go to jail? >> no, i'm not saying that. i'm saying let justice run its course. let's see. i don't recognize the caricature of her in the way that has been portrayed. rebecca is a good friend of mine. she's a great person. she's a brilliant journalist. she rose right to the top -- >> rose: she was running everything over there. >> and she is a very smart person.

frankly, when things happen with murdoch and others, people scattered like crazy. nobody was standing up trying to say -- >> that is because there was no way to defend what they said. >> i think the murdoch thing was a little bit different. the fact is, we were not even prepared for -- we were not out front proactively talking about the issue. we let them do the groundwork and talk about the war on women. when that happened, the grounds more fertile for people to buy buy into and believe it. they had not heard anybody at the national level making a pro-life case in a good way. early making a positive case. they were not really talking about that issue this time. >> emily's list, a pro-choice fundraising pack -- they train their candidates. they bring them in, give them -- murder boards where they fire questions at them. >> i think they put a microchip in each of them. >> they want more women, more pro-choice women candidates. we need to do that, not necessarily to get pro-life women candidates, but just to train our candidates how you answer. because the press is v

good at. >> rose: what has it changed in london, in great britain about the relationship between murdochand the government? part of it they say is a rot of people were intimidated. >> which i'm sure is true. >> rose: and they're less intimidated now. >> i think it was a mutually beneficial relationship between the murdoch empire and all its guises and the government of the day. it's not an unusual thing, media owners to have relationships with the government at the time. and for mutual benefit where appropriate. and i think it probably was a case of that, and then what happened is you had a kind "reservoir dogs." you had the politicians exposed for expenses and fiddling their lunch bills and building moats at public expense and so on. they felt enraged by that. some of them went to jail. they then gleefully targeted the journalists. in the middle of it you have the police targeted by everybody. >> rose: they were brought into it-- >> right. and they may target everybody else in revenge as well. you have a "reservoir dog" situation. >> rose: everybody turning on everybody? >> i think it's

finally, rupert murdoch may have killed his web newspaper, the daily, but his laid off staff got thehing video that we came across. take a listen. ♪ so long ♪ farewell? we put up a fight ♪ ♪ i hate to go ♪ i'll miss this pretty sighte ♪ ♪ so long farewell ♪ i'll miss this lovely crew ♪ for you and you ♪ a shirt in daily blue >> very clever. very good humor but pretty sad, cindy, i think. >> i have to say, i looked at this video. while it was well produced, my feeling was the daily was supposed to be edgy and they went with the von trapp kids song? if they want to show edge, tagging rupert murdoch's office, pho photo copying their behinds or something like that. >> john? >> i think news corp. managed to create a close-knit start-up atmosphere within their corporation. these people loved their jobs, they loved their product. that's something that every big media corporation should aspire to make happen. good for them. >> i thought it was a clever use of kind of a difficult situation for all of them. thanks, guys. >> there's a good time to lip-sync and sometimes not. >> sometimes there'

this noon where a senior british detective has been convicted in the scandal surrounding rupert murdoch's tabloid news of the world. he was guilty of selling information about whether police would reopen the phone hacking scandal. that involves allegations of snooping on celebrities, politicians and others and has led to more than a dozen arrests. >> it is a beautiful scene in israel. take a look at the rear dusting of snow in jerusalem. -- rare dusting of snow in jerusalem. this is the iconic power of david. it may not look like a lot of snow, but the most they have seen in about 20 years. i know that makes you very jealous. >> but that it. we cannot even squeeze out a quarter of an inch. -- pathetic. >> adam would rather be in jerusalem than d.c. >> 2012 the hottest year on record. our temperatures are little above average. i am going ice fishing this weekend. i am working out so i can do this. it is going to be fun. ok so it is a beautiful day. bright sunshine. a little bit above average but we will see temperatures rarely spike as we go through the upcoming weekend particularly on sun

the greatest opponent of journalism today is rupert murdoch. he blocked the wall street journal, not to be rich. his papers are the tiniest part of his media empire. the wall street journal was unlike the post. some people said when he goes with his friends in the war room, now he does not just on the new york post, he owns the wall street journal. rupert murdoch is a good example of somebody who really cares about the bottom line. he was perfectly willing to make deals with tony blair. he tried to make deals with hillary clinton. to extract promises from blair on regulations, and and newspapers have had a much bigger impact in great britain than they have here. his entertainment property, fox television, offered something the public wanted and did not get from basic television all those years ago. the simpsons, if anybody can remember when the simpson started, just created howls of anguish from the guardians of family and value people, who thought it was just a disaster. married with children? please. this is stuff that people wanted to consum

rupert murdoch on the media. george bush was president. norman lear had his pulse on american culture for 30 years. why cannot figure out how to deal -- deliver a message that is important and happening? >> that is important. we can find messages that speak to people where they are. they can also have some satire like stewart or colbert. there is the idea of exposing with satire. it opens people's eyes to the hypocrisy and corruption of our politics. the problem is you want the captivating stories and images and vocabulary, but a lot of the colbert-stewart stuff is so absurd and over the top that people do not want to get engaged. >> that is where a large number of people get their news. >> i think the obama campaign was a pivotal point, bringing people in. now they leave. there is the possibility that people will come back in. i agree with that movements also have their problems. i think it is a moment of people waking up to the possibility of engagement in different ways, where they are, in communities, finding ways -- it is important no

because, as the former vice president, he might be able to do favors for people like, say, rupert murdochish tv aqueous to a favorable deal for current tv and according to an excellent reporter in "new york times" actually helped gore get capital to launch current tv. now, you see time warner cable wants to renegotiate a deal before it's going to let al jazeera take over the current tv channel. again, it's being couched as some sor some sort of moral conflict. this is a conflict about price, not vuirtue. >> time warner cable which is not affiluted with time warner already said it would drop what had been current tv and it's entitled to do that because completely changed the programming and the name and everything. the cable carrier doesn't have to continue. let me play for you. a lot of criticism the right about this deal. something bill o'reilly had to say the other night. >> al gore sold his cable network to, wait for it, al jazeera. the anti-american network out of kutar which ran a documentary sympathetic to osama bin laden. al gore shamed himself simply by selling to al jazeera which

ken buck, sharon angle, todd akin and richard murdoch. you add in that the right-leaning gop election for ate has attracted fringy candidates who led at different points. a quick walk down memory lane and revisit these names and faces. donald trump, michelle back mown. rick perry, her maine cain, newt gingrich, rick santorum. what do they have in common? they were leading in the polls. what's your prescription for the primary problem? >> my next endeavor, the nonpaying one, will be to head up the republican main street partnership to give comfort and cover to center right republicans and center left i guess democrats to stand up from the fringe groups on the right and left who have the courage to do the right thing. if governor rendell and i were in charge, we would have fixed this thing. >> thank you, steve la tourette and governor rendell. >> thank you. happy new year. >>> the house got around to voting on an aid package for the victims of hurricane sandy. the conservative club for growth promised to punish anyone who voted it. and 67 r

the greatest opponent of journalism today is rupert murdoch. he blocked the wall street journal, not to be rich. his papers are the tiniest part of his media empire. the wall street journal was unlike the post. some people said when he goes with his friends in the war room, now he does not just on the new york post, he owns the wall street journal. rupert murdoch is a good example of somebody who really cares about the bottom line. he was perfectly willing to make deals with tony blair. he tried to make deals with hillary clinton. to extract promises from blair on regulations, and and newspapers have had a much bigger impact in great britain than they have here. his entertainment property, fox television, offered something the public wanted and did not get from basic television all those years ago. the simpsons, if anybody can remember when the simpson started, just created howls of anguish from the guardians of family and value people, who thought it was just a disaster. married with children? please. this is stuff that people wanted to consum

am standing here with these microphones makes you feel like what rupert murdoch must have felt like this morning. i have no direct knowledge of the cloud. [laughter] let me make a small correction since my academic colleagues -- you're so sensitive to this. i am lecturer at stanford university, not a professor. that is another level of this conversation teary let me extend the conversation a little bit. one of the things that it was after i left or go, i taught for many years at stanford and talk, as i told the kids, real stuff. i started a class on cloud computing. three years ago, i started a class at the university in beijing as well on this subject because i feel it is really important. we are in my opinion in the second year of a 20-year cycle that is no different than the client server cycle that happened last time around, and i think education is an important component of this. so i'm going to take my four or five minutes to educate you guys a little bit on what is this thing we call cloud computing. i'm going to try uses much plain english as i can, leave all the technical buzzwo