Breaking: Rupert Murdock Joins Twitter, Expresses Support For Santorum

[sellitman]

@rupertmurdoch
Good to see santorum surging in Iowa. Regardless of policies, all debates showed principles, consistency and humility like no other.


http://tinyurl.com/7uh68lv


Gag!!

[orpupilofnature57]

1. " REGARDLESS OF POLICIES " tells the story ,Narcissistic Fibrosis

is eating the insulation to the wiring of his brain ,couldn't happen to a bigger piece of sh-t . He is a perfect example of why we have to veiw the 1% ,as a band of Misanthropes hell bent on enslavement.

[Joe Bacon]

25. I'm sure he made a deal with Little Ricky!

Ricky promised he'd let his Sugar Daddy off the hook!

[TheWraith]

2. Wait, so this is REAL?

Wow.

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. Its a verified account

At least we know what to expect from the Faux OpEds now, but this is interesting given the WSJ is in the Romney camp.

Speaking of the which, didn't Huckabee win Iowa in 2008?

May just be some red meat being tossed out there for the Faux crowd.

[RickFromMN]

26. I assume the WSJ will listen to Murdoch's reasons for supporting Santorum and will fall in line..

[randome]

3. Santorum the candidate?

Or...

[sellitman]

4. I'm sure both NT

[randome]

5. I think I'll hold off on lunch for a while.

[T_i_B]

6. Also praises George Clooney (for acting, not politics),

Ron Paul and Scottish Nationalist leader Alex Salmond. And moans about us Brits taking too many holidays.

I won't be following Murdoch on Twitter. I think I'll stick to following beer geeks instead. At least beer geeks won't hack your phone and attempt to run our country via the back door.

[nxylas]

22. The holidays thing has been pushed by his empire for at least 20 years

I'm guessing not just in Britain either. He would love every country to be like American "right to work" states, with no statutory paid leave and as few rights for employees as possible.

[think]

7. News Corp 2nd largest investor Prince alwaleed bin talal just invested $300 mil in Twitter

Saudi prince invests $300million in Twitter... even though political activists have their accounts blocked in his country

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076177/Saudi-prince-invests-300million-Twitter--political-activists-accounts-blocked-country.html#ixzz1iF1bLAH5

Rupert must be drumming some biz up for him since his own citizens unfortunately can't

[CJCRANE]

17. Good catch nt.

[Tsiyu]

8. So now we know who all the FUX Lie Readers will be pushing

Guess it took him a while to select exactly which idiot to endorse.

[sellitman]

9. Perfect pick for them

And for us too if you think about it.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Probably a trick--so when Fox news fawns over

one of the other candidates he can claim he has no influence there.

[Terra Alta]

11. Like Murdoch would know anything about principles, consistency, or humility.

Also, could ol' Rupert have picked a more unflattering photo of himself for Twitter? Seriously, he looks like he's constipated. That's probably how he always looks, though.

[Turbineguy]

12. It must be he wants to bomb Iran

Murdock loves wars.

[RobertBlue]

13. Murdock?

Wouldn't it be wiser to focus on not going to jail? Stupid greedy asshat.

[onehandle]

14. Yes. We get it. The GOP establishment wants Romney to be the nominee.

So you 'appear' to align yourselves with whoever has even a slim chance of stopping that.

Sheesh!

[SpiralHawk]

16. A freaky foreign fascist propaganda pimp - just what the Repubbies need

Just what America does not need

[LeftishBrit]

18. Ugggggggghhhhhhh

And what would Rupert know about principles or humility? Consistency, yes, as he's consistently vile.

[dipsydoodle]

19. Reminds me when Sky News twitter account was hacked 14th November

with a report saying Murdoch had been arrested.

[LeftishBrit]

20. And this is the cue for me to chime in again...

with my sickening discovery last year, that in 2005, Iain Duncan-Smith, the disgustingly sanctimonious former British Tory leader and now our Secretary for (cutting) Work and Pensions, had co-authored an article with Santorum on 'compassionate conservativism'!

Right-wing snakes of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but most of the things that help the ordinary people of your countries to survive!

[orpupilofnature57]

23. !!!!!!!

[Kahuna]

21. He just throwing the dog (freeps) a bone, He dosen't actually say

he supports him.

[tooeyeten]

24. The anti-Gingrich media mogul

Like the Kochs did for Cain (before his self-destruction), mogul Murdoch intends to do for Santorum, bring in the rightwing base! Allelujah!

[RickFromMN]

27. I just realized. Don't we frown on foreigners interfering in our politics?

I guess money talks. Murdoch must be an honorary United States citizen.

[Spider Jerusalem]

28. A naturalised citizen since 1985, according to Wikipedia

which he did because of media ownership rules, as far as I know.

[freshwest]

29. So Murdoch's Saudi friends want the USA to bomb Iran for them. Let them do it themselves.

[T_i_B]

30. Grauniad article on the subject

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/01/rupert-murdoch-twitter-account

Users of the microblogging site have reacted with a mixture of incredulity and unabashed horror to a declaration by its executive chairman Jack Dorsey that Murdoch had set up a verified account and would be gracing the site with his unique observations. "With his own voice, in his own way, @RupertMurdoch is now on Twitter," wrote Dorsey.

Within hours, the media tycoon had amassed more than 14,000 followers and was giving them his views on everything from the US presidential election to his family holiday in the Caribbean.

A cursory glance at his output reveals that he considers Steve Jobs's biography to be "interesting but unfair", that thoughts are best kept private in St Barths ("like London!" ), and that George Clooney deserves an Oscar for his performance in The Descendants (whose distributor is News Corp-owned Fox Searchlight Pictures).

Murdoch's latest tweet, posted late on New Year's Eve and betraying a certain technological unease with punctuation, reads: "Huge NY eve do. Oligarchs and silicon valley biggies(like Jack) . May. Learn something".

[Rene]

31. Now we know

where all the bogus 'polls' and news stories about santorum's so called "surge" came from. murdoch's zany meddling in U.S. politics.