Rupert Murdoch, Friend to the Enviro-Left

At the American Spectator site, Ivan Osorio points out that while the forthcoming movie The Day After Tomorrow may bouy lefty arguments about global warming, it helps sink lefty arguments about media consolidation.

Comments

[Sorry Y'all]

This flick ain't gonna bouy or sink nothing. It's all about the $$$$$$.

Enjoy your day!

[Karl Kraus]

Sorry Y'all:

This film could indeed help to invoke the codified Precautionary Principle in the Treaty of the European Community (from Nice). So, it could actually have an effect on environmental policy here in Europe. And there is legal basis for it. People can actually cite this and be fully legal. On the late news an "Expert" was interviewed on this topic, because of this film. On two German stations I saw somthing quite like that too. Listen to your NPR or some other left oriented news to see if they wonder and worry about this.

Remember that Pearl Harbor the Movie did affect how people viewed that conflict, or that the movie Troja will "educate" many on that war, movies that claim to depict "factual" events cause consternation amongst some. And those oftentimes are the "Greenpeace" or overlyworried group. Not to paint with too broad a brush, but this clumsy explanation will have to do.

An American who is at the Exchange program here told me of his parents, who recently saw the movie, Troja, but the Camera broke, and everybody had to leave. As the Parents were leaving, they overheard another family talking, "Who do you think will win this war?"

O yes, the wonders of Public Education.

[Hydroman]

You mean that Rupert is "fair and balanced"?

[Jon H]

I expect it'll be vastly overshadowed by the effect of Gibson's Jesus-porn.

Secondly, it's absurd to think a *disaster movie* - part of a consistently awful genre - is going to have as much impact on voters as day-to-day editorial decisions.

Good lord. Was Nixon impeached because of the "Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno"?

Sheesh. People don't vote based on disaster movies, which they expect to exaggerate things and be unrealistic.

But they do spend lots of money watching them. Which is why Fox is involved.

Fox's talking heads and editorialists *love* to rail against indecency and the decline of the culture. Yet Fox has produced some of the most decadent programs, such as "Who wants to Marry a Millionaire". And Murdoch's Sun, in Britain, has bare tits every day on page 3; Murdoch's US columnists and opinionators would probably have a stroke if confronted by that. Think of the Children! Worse than Janet Jackson, 5 days a week!

But when it comes to editorial matters, Murdoch is pretty consistent. And that's what moves public opinion.

[Dan]

Secondly, it's absurd to think a *disaster movie* - part of a consistently awful genre - is going to have as much impact on voters as day-to-day editorial decisions. Good lord. Was Nixon impeached because of the "Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno"?

No, but "The China Syndrome" did markedly feed the anti-nuclear hysteria that killed America's shift from coal-burning power plants to nuclear ones. For that matter, movies like "Jurassic Park" probably contributed to anti-GM hysteria, too.

[Rick Barton]

Following up on Gene's point, Rupert Murdoch financed the The Weekly Standard, and check out what William Kristol has been saying lately:

"If we have to make common cause with the more hawkish liberals and fight the conservatives, that is fine with me,"

The Weekly Standard editor added that the neoconservatives may just abandon the Right altogether and convert to neo-liberalism.

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=2371

[mobile]

This sucks. First King Kong comes out
and bolsters the left's arguments against
introducing giant monkeys into modern civilization, and now this?

[Environmentalism]

Junk science is no less effective at invading public consciousness than actual science.

Actual science is factual and true, which may give it a bit of an advantage. But real science is really boring.

Junk science is fun! It's exciting and scary! It changes constantly! It can't be defated, because it's like a virus that mutates whenever pressured.

News Corp. is a big place. It is not a large monolith where Rupert Murdoch makes all of the decisions and communicates them telepathically to all of his drones.

I think the liberals have been watching too many movies.

[clare]

TISM?s original

BFW

Christina Aguilera:
Some dead-eyed child bride
Has learned to dance
BFW
Sisqo: One pack of vicious blacks
Hates another.
BFW
Moby: A geography teacher
Bought a blues record
BFW
Radiohead: Redefining the very idiom
That is modern music.
BFW
Psy-trance. Big beat. Prog house.
Old skool. Hard house.
Nu-skool breaks:
BFW
London: The 500 most snooty people
Thinks something?s important.
BFW
Acting in a movie: Walk to the mark. Say the line.
Do it again.
BFW
Video clips: The revolving moose-head shot
Cost quarter of a mil.
BFW
Pay TV: Gilligan?s island. Rugby.
Gilligan?s island again.
BFW
The Internet: More crap at your fingertips
Than on them.
BFW

Big Fucking Woopee

Georgio Armani: Makes dresses.
Makes more dresses.
BFW
The Queen Mother: Fucked the right guy.
Lots of money. Drunkard.
BFW
Vegans: Deeply committed people.
Better than you and me.
BFW
Stock market: Lots of guys with rat-cunning,
Ripping each other off.
BFW
BMW: You hop in this car,
Then you drive it
BFW
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New Wavered
(early April 2004)

Clare Robertson:
One of only two women to work on the Tattersalls ?Javelin? cabling project in 1995
Daddy what?s the truth?
CCTV?s: Provided the footage
That showed the women doing their work
Daddy what?s the truth?
Keno cable: It?s successful termination proved to be impossible for all but one of the women cablers.
Daddy what?s the truth?
Steven Schumer: Redefining the very idiom
That is modern husbandry.
Daddy what?s the truth?
Austel: Telstra?s brainchild
Conceived for the regulation of the burgeoning cabling industry
Daddy what?s the truth?
Collingwood: The place where, by Clare?s impetus alone, Clare undertook an eight week coaching course to prepare her for the Austel licensing examination in 1996
Daddy what?s the truth?
Singing in a band: Announce an impromptu concert to be held coincidently on the same day that Clare sits the Austel licensing examination. Run towards the general direction of Clare. Procede to strip off your costume and throw it onto Clare.
Daddy what?s the truth?
Evidence: Wipe out any that proves you performed a concert that night.
Daddy what?s the truth?
Video clips:The lounges couldn?t compete
Daddy what?s the truth?
Diploma of telecommunications: A farce of a course. A relative waste of time for anyone interested in learning how to run cable.
Daddy what?s the truth?

Daddy what?s the fucking truth?

Paul Cridge: Makes aspersions.
Makes more aspersions.
Daddy what?s the truth?
Tyre: The outer part of a wheel which when deflated makes it nearly impossible to drive your car.
Police: Deeply committed people.
Authorized to witness a statutory declaration of a lost wallet and Austel license and then to take you to hospital with culminated exasperation at two years worth of unsuccessful applications for a replacement license.
The Hippocratic Oath: Ask Paul
Daddy what?s the truth?
The truth: It?s horror will prevail
Daddy what?s the truth?

TISM?s Original

The Men?s Room

The fucking kids are whingeing
They can?t get a job
The photocopy repair man
Is a smarmy smartarse knob;
I?ve been running this office
For so long I can?t recall-
I?ve gone and pissed thirty years
Up against the wall

?Good morning Mr Jenkins?
The office girls all say
?Gentlemen,? I?ll tell the board,
?What?s the agenda for today??
I play the part so desperately
Because the truth so appals:
I?ve gone and pissed thirty years
Up against the wall

The fingers that knot my tie
Are fat with some success;
But they tremble ?still so slightly
So far only I notice;
In the far off wilderness
A lone hyena calls;
I?ve gone and pissed thirty years
Up against the wall

Off I go to the men?s room
For the seventh time today:
My bladder no longer hears me,
No matter what I say.
I count the tiles in front of me
And wait for the trickle to fall
I?ve gone and pissed thirty years
Up against the wall

New Wavered (10-6-04)

The Venue

I?ve done enough of this degree
I?d better get a job
Who?d?ve guessed fate would see me
Messed up with the mob
I learned how to run this cable
At Telecom I recall
I?ve gone and pissed off the guy who hired me
He was Paul

Good morning Mr Jinks
As I arrive for investigation
Take my prints-and yes
I appeared in court for cultivation
I tell the truth so desperately
?Cause more cabling work calls
I?ve gone and pissed off the guy who hired me
He was Paul

The fingers that fix the saddles
Do it with success
But John Gillies? reproving
Causes me some stress
?You should be more careful
Of what you? say-he calls
I?ve gone and pissed off the guy who hired me
He was Paul

Off I go to the women?s room
As I ponder the issue at stake
I?d absent mindedly told the carpenter
That we were working through Drake
We weren?t KLM employees
As was told to Tattersalls
I?ve gone and pissed off the guy who hired me
He was Paul
TISM?s original

I Might Be A Cunt, But I?m Not A Fucking Cunt

I might be a rock star, but I?ll never be a critic;
I might like porno?s, but Baywatch is fucking sick.
I might?ve screwed your sister, but I?ll never screw your mum;
I might?ve gone to Uni, but at least I know I?m dumb.

I might hide my small penis, but not by owning a gun;
I might not be a homosexual, but I?ve slept with a guy who?s one.
I might agree with Jesus, but I got no religious belief;
At least I clean the drops up when I piss on the toilet seat.

I might be a cunt, but I?m not a fucking cunt

I might barrack for Port Power, but never for the crows;
I might watch A Current Affair, but Frontline also.
I might like Tarantino, but sometimes you gotta wonder;
I mightn?t tell the truth all the time-hey what?s your mother?s number?
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New Wavered (16-6-04)

I might?ve been a female, but for Paul that wasn?t a worry
I might?ve been surprised, but he seemed in such a hurry
I might?ve been the reason that John bought Laurel on board
I might?ve been a ?nothing?, but I wasn?t an E grade fraud

I might?ve seen he?d stripped the ten pair, but then I conciliated
I might?ve seen the wires, but the pairs had become separated
I might?ve been frustrated, but his condescension did grate
I might?ve been a ?nothing?, but he didn?t have to deprecate

I might be a pest, but I?ve got my self respect

I might?ve leaked the truth, but I obviously knew how to work
I might?ve forgotten the carpenter?s response, but I?ll never forget his smirk
I might?ve been preoccupied, but his laughter was plain to see
I might?ve been a ?nothing?, but why was he laughing at me?

I might be a pest, but I?ve got my self respect

I might?ve been a ?nothing?, but Mick got taken off the job
I might?ve thought he looked alright, but David said they said he looked like a slob
I might?ve found solace with David, but Mick looked tidier than Ken
I might?ve discovered some insight, but I didn?t realise back then

TISM?s Original

Great Expectorations

Forget Generation X
Here?s Generation Me
Spit the dummy

If you?re looking for the breaks
But you ain?t got what it takes
Just come down with the shakes and
Spit the dummy

Spit the dummy
Chuck a wobbly
Have a paddy
Spit the dummy

The only way to get the perks
And climb above the other jerks
Turn on the waterworks
Spit the dummy

The world is a great big melting pot
There?s those who do, and those who do their block
Why shoulder the weight of society
When a tantrum or two will get you what you need

Babies have got it right
Wake up crying in the night
Every time you get a fright
Spit the dummy

Jesus stuck up for the meek
Said ?turn the other cheek?
But that?ll get you up shit creek
Just spit the dummy
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New Wavered (3-8-04)

Forget credulity
Here?s a postcard that was sent to me
It?s not funny

If you?re looking to confound
You might need to shift your ground
Just come up with something quite profound and
It?s not funny

It?s not funny
Ask your mummy
Ask your daddy
It?s not funny

The only logical explanation
Of this anonymous voyeuristic implication
Is that it?s intent is nothing less than intimidation
It?s not funny

The world is full of arguments
The postmark might just augment my defence
Although the prank was not illicit
The postcard?s inference is very explicit

No amount of male moneyed talking
Can deny it may contribute to a theory of stalking
Shove it brother-just keep walking
It?s not funny

Jesus struck up much confusion
Masses exploit in collusion
Is the postcard?s existence just a delusion?
No, It?s not funny
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TISM?s original

The Mystery Of The Artist Explained

I?ve been working 76 hours per week;
I hate every moment-
But I do it because
Somehow I like the pain.

Chorus;
I?m fucked in the head.

When I was five years old
I fell in love with my sister;
I still have a strange attraction
To women with faces like her.

Deep down I?m guilty still
About my treatment of my peers-
I used to think they were the fiddle,
And I was Nero and Rome was burning.
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New Wavered (4-8-04)

The Mystery Of Greg Explained

I,ve been with new Waver since before 1996
I hate every denouement
But I did it because
Somehow I liked the denial

Chorus;
I call myself Greg.
When she was three years old
She fell foul of her mother
I was part of a strange protraction
Of her punishment

Deep down I?m waiting still
For deceit to be diminished
?Cause while it lingers on
Mary Springham?s revenge isn?t finished
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