Murdoch wishes Trump were dead.

Red letter day -- I actually agree with Rupert Murdoch. Whodathunk?!

I don't believe a word of this.

He still lets his news outlets broadcast lies and bullshit on behalf of Trump and his sycophants.

Murdoch should take his own advice while he’s at it.

Who doesn't?

I dislike Mr. Murdstone more than I dislike Donald Trump.

Murdoch and Trump should both drop dead and be buried in a triple twice coffin together.

Join the club.

(Though Murdoch should commit Seppuku to acknowledge his role in elevating Trump.)

[quote]Rupert Murdoch loathes Donald Trump so much that the billionaire has not just soured on him as a presidential candidate but often wishes for his death

Get in line, old man.

We've been here before. Michael Wolff has a long history fabricating the spectacular claims in his books.

In a 2004 profile, The New Republic’s Michelle Cottle wrote that “the scenes in his columns aren’t recreated so much as created — springing from Wolff’s imagination rather than from actual knowledge of events.” Instead of conventional reporting, she wrote, Wolff “absorbs the atmosphere and gossip swirling around him at cocktail parties, on the street, and especially during those long lunches at Michael’s.”

The late New York Times media columnist David Carr wrote in a review of Wolff’s 2008 biography of Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch, “The Man Who Owns the News,” that “historically one of the problems with Wolff’s omniscience is that while he may know all, he gets some of it wrong.”

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We could write several paragraphs weighing the evidence in favor of Wolff’s scoop. But a simple table of the evidence for and against Wolff’s claims is more appropriate:

I think the only juicy Wolff book that was pretty accurate was the one he wrote about trump at the beginning of his presidency. Wolff was allowed unfettered access, because the staff didn’t know any better and trump assumed it would be positive. But mostly it was because Steve Bannon was still there and absolutely loved running his mouth to whoever would listen.

Murdoch could probably have Trump snuffed out and no one would be the wiser. Maybe he’ll end up like the Peter Finch character in NETWORK.

Murdoch is the reason for turmp

Exactly, r13.

That hateful old fossil could put an end to the orange fool by denying him air, but he won’t.

The rubes he’s cultivated and groomed for years will turn against Fux before they abandon the orange traitor.

A hell of his own making and may it eat him up alive from the inside. Let him see his precious media empire burned to the motherfucking GROUND because of his continued peddling the GQP and the traitor’s lies.

Awesome. Another Trump thread. I'm going to jerk off to it now. SPLOOGE SPLOOGE. Thanks.

You're to blame for Trump, you evil old fuck. And your equally evil son would reinstall him --or someone worse-- so just STFU!

Ha, Ha, Breaking News says he's stepping down from Fox.

Apparently the Murdochs turned on Trump primarily because he wouldn't take or return Lachlan's calls, choosing to only deal with Rupert. They lost control of the puppet Klangerine.

Hate them all.

“Of all Trump’s implacable enemies, Murdoch had become a frothing-at-the-mouth one. His relatively calm demeanor from the early Trump presidency where, with a sigh, he could dismiss him merely as a ‘fucking idiot’ had now become a churning stew of rage and recrimination."

So he was happy to have his organisation promote and support someone he considered a fucking idiot?

Yea, r19. It was all about the $$.

Fux promoted lies. When they got sued, they shut the fuck it and lost audience. Now they’re stuck in the no man’s land of losing viewers if they say anything against the traitor or getting sued if they lie for him.

Womp fucking Womp

So does Murdoch hate trump because he started bashing Fox or is it because trump turned out to have more power over the viewers than Murdoch realized?

They are both loathsome creatures. I feel like I should hate Murdoch more because Fox has done more to divide this country with its ongoing propaganda for years now. But my hate for trump is so next level it’s hard for anyone else to come close.

Trump is such a terrible person, it’s impossible for any human being to like him. People who were on his dumb reality show and fawned all over him went to work for him at the White House and ended up LOATHING him. He’s 0% on rotten tomatoes.

[quote] He still lets his news outlets broadcast lies and bullshit on behalf of Trump and his sycophants.

Money is money. We know what Fucker Carlson had to say about him, but he still publicly cheerleads for Trump.

Trump is profoundly friendless.

He's got the money. He can make it happen.

Yeah. You do wonder how hard a contract killer would find it to get past Trump's inner circle. Half of them would be off their faces and the other half would be all, "He's in the attic!"

R25, we have our ways.

Rupert is beyond terrible on so many levels. And the fact that he helped create Trump with his media empire.... whatever.

I'd suggest he make this happen with some kind of murder-suicide scheme.

Good. I hope Murdoch spends tortured nights frothing at the mouth thinking about cheeto.

Murdoch had a direct hand in creating him and the rest of the maga idiocy.

Karma cannot move quickly enough to slap that asshole in the face.

Or kick him in the cuntbone, r29

Murdoch—I’m outta here.

Trump—I’m still here!

…he’s outlived the cockroaches

I keep wondering why Fox News even still has their FCC license. I've always wondered it actually. They are not serving the public good. Their news needs to be more honest, slant it anyway you llike.

They created Trumpenstein, now he's going to kill them all.

I guess he can answer the question would you kill Hitler if you knew what he would become, a firm No because he knew what Trump was and did nothing.

It must be frustrating for the old(er) man that he can't break Trump like he has so many others.

Hopefully they'll both be dead soon.

R32 Because the Fox News cable network is not licensed by the FCC.

Join the club. .. that old bloated body has to give out soon. tik tok boomer

I guess in a way, not dissimilar to the Grinch, Murdoch’s heart grew three sizes to wish tRump dead. I have zero respect for either of them.

It comforts me to know that they'll both probably be dead in a few years.

I hope they both die very painfully.

You people are still treating this item from Michael Wolff's fantasy world as a legitimate news story ?