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

its biggest boost yet harsh criticism from fox so-called news the network own by billionaire rupert murdoch 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

rupert murdoch one of the greatest examples.cated, he began tweeting within hours after the sandy hook school shootings and the new york editorial. we have fox news. repert m rupert murdoch has a history and knowledge of what happens with guns and assault weapons. in england in 1986, 16 school children were shot and killed. within two years, parliament had passed maybe the world's most stringent gun legislation. >> the ban. >> yes. that is still existent in london today. murdoch is intimately familiar with this. he could be 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 count

to allow greater media consolidation what they call cross ownership and particular rupert murdoch's rupert murdoch rupert murdoch could could only be l a times in the chicago. tyrus well as the new york post. 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 the report by the free press a couple of years ago found very clearly that women and my new 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 principle 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 that. you know it's a really interesting pro

rupert murdoch profiting from the anti-american propaganda.ords 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'll b bacht bac[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 b

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

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'

london 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

. >> it was a tie between him and rupert murdoch.ar his entire news empire was exposed for the fraud it is. they were literally humiliated. their narrative of the campaign proved to be completely false. now their credibility is in tatters. and you had the phone hacking scandal. he's just a mess right now. so i'm giving him the tie slight edge over ryan. >> biggest loser? >> for me it was a long time coming. i remember when i first started working for marie cantwell on the held. we would have proposals or be discussing things. people would say you can't do that because of the pledge. i said i didn't know. what's the pledge? what is the pledge. i guess i need to learn about it. and the pledge is slowly, not completely -- >> grover norquist. >> grover norquist anti-tax pledge which is no way to run a business, no way to run a government. revenues are important if you understand a balance sheet. that thing has haunted us for a long time. >> krystal ball, the biggest loser. >> mine has helped in part helped rupert murdoch which is karl ro

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

doesn't take a lot of imagination to hear more deranged minds than some of these go too far. >> and rupert murdoch tweeted today, "hopefully we'll get some real action on guns tomorrow, not just some staged managed stunt." well, can't murdoch take real action himself by telling his media personalities to dial back the rhetoric? >> sure. fox news feeds this paranoia all the time. fox news trots out the party line. i thought what david said earlier was very interesting about charles krauthammer or somebody like that coming out and saying let's have a serious conversation. the problem is there is a bargain with the devil here. it's the religious right combined with the tea party combined with the nra. and they're all in this together. and no one else in that coalition, even the more moderate members of that coalition want to criticize one of the other members because they fear that it will bring the thing apart. >> david corn, wouldn't it be good to see a republican lawmaker step out and say we've got to end this conversation? this has gone over the top, and we have a responsibility here. where are t

and 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

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

. >>> conservative media mogul rupert murdoch offered his thoughts on twitter. hopefully we'll get real actions on guns tomorrow, not some stage-managed stunt. >>> new york is the first state to tighten the gun control laws in the aftermath of newtown. andrew cuomo signed a wide-ranging bill last night. the package includes an expansion of the state's existing ban on assault weapons and lit limits gun magazines to seven rounds and requires mental health professionals to consider patients that are a possible threat. >> let's at least learn from what's happened. let's at least be able to say yes we went through terrible situations. but we saw, we learned, we responded and we acted and we're doing something about it. we're not victims. we can strike back. we can defend ourselves. but we're going to do it intelligently and we're going to do it prudently and we're going to put rules in place that actually protect innocent people and n. society. >> new york's law comes despite the national rifle associate's political influence in the state. according to the national i

to avoid the questions that johnson isn't the only one going after hill new york post owned by rupert murdoch printed a cover saying no wonder bill's afraid of hillary referring to the same show of emotion it's clear that republicans and the conservative media are unleashing sexist attacks on hillary clinton you know as score political points and that it's very clear. in the beginning there were big states and little states virginia and delaware pennsylvania and rhode island georgia and new hampshire the little states wanted to make sure that their voices weren't drowned out by the big states. and they want to make sure that they could be marginalized or pushed out of the way altogether and that they could see themselves as equal parts of the american government so the framers of the constitution put protections for the small states into that document of the constitution given the small states a little bit more say in fact a little bit more say actually on a per capita basis than the big states. one was that each one of those protections was that each state even if it was so small it only had

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years ago a man named rupert murdoch started a company called the news corporation. right now news corps employs 48,000 people worldwide. those people, and i am one of them, are given opportunity. i have seized that opportunity and done well. but president obama told me i did not build the factor alone. that the government somehow is partially responsible for my success well, it is true i take a road to work the long island expressway. believe me, that is not helping me succeed, mr. president, that road is a mess. and you won't fix it. by contrast, the president has added more than 130,000 people to the federal payroll. estimated cost to the taxpayer about $10 billion a year now, most of those federal employees work hard but their salaries and benefits are provided by the taxpayers in the private sector. the employees of news corps. we give to the country by funding government and expanding business so more folks can work. the struggle is not between republicans and democrats. it's between us, we the people. you either want freedom or you don't. every time the govern

rupert murdoch and -- >> do you buy the stars are aligned on this? >> i'm not exactly sure. i think on the national stage the political players who really want to be able to win a presidential election say we have to deal with this problem. individual republican representatives from individual districts do not have that same pressure. >> i'm smiling because you're so politically cynical. he's like really democrats just want to win and republicans just want to win and that's the only reason. >> i don't actually believe that. i do believe that there are legitimate concern for people wanting to move this forward, but that's some people. there are some people who are adamant on the point that anderson made before which is these people broke the law and we cannot reward law breaking. and i think that those people in that corridor, a lot of those are conservatives. >> we always talk about the right flank can derail this. but there's the left flank that's opposed to visas for agricultural jobs that could take jobs from americans. >> i don't know if that is as big. >> i've got to le

rupert murdoch himself hosted a fund-raiser for her before her presidential campaign.my friends, it is like the right wing media that loved her for the past 12 years stepped into a time machine. today's "new york post" is more 1990s than a gin blossom

. >> i've read that i guess maybe it's common knowledge that when rupert murdoch purchased the "wall street journal" he was trying to take away circulation on "the times" and he was introducing that greater new york section. do you know if he's been successful with that? >> i think he's been moderately successful. he has a great amount of financial resources and he's pouring them in. i don't think he's in any way met the goal of being a national newspaper on the level of ""the times". i think clearly he had some setbacks in england for his stature which has undermined the regard in which he's held. but certainly, that picks up some readership for him and he's moved into more sports criticism. he's made that effort and maybe more is forthcoming. and he has his pay wall too, so we'll just see. i think so far, i would not say that he's made it into a rival of ""the times." and certainly, he's not doing the foreign coverage they've done or the investigatory journalism. it's still a business newspaper, i think. and "the times" has stepped on his toes too. they hired as their business edit