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Rupert Murdoch Embarrassed by Fox News and Bill O'Reilly Will Vote for Barack Obama

Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch's authorized biographer said during a CNBC interview on September 3, 2008 that the conservative media baron is quite embarrassed by Bill O'Reilly and by his Fox Television network, and he will vote for Senator Obama in the upcoming elections. CNBC's "Power Lunch" team interviewed Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff about his Vanity Fair piece and his upcoming book. Wolff answered Michelle Caruso-Cabrera's sarcastic questions -she thinks she is the other CNBC dingbat anchor Maria Bartiromo- as the cluless kid anchor Rebecca Jarvis watched the entire segment without a single word to say, because the teleprompter had nothing for her to read.

Click here to view Bill O'Reilly's Youtube Crackpot Video where he acts like a mental hospital escape crack head.

Murdoch should fire O'Reilly together with the rest of the clowns over at Fox News, IMHO.

Michael Wolff writes in the October edition of Vanity Fair that Murdoch's third wife, Wendi, has turned the angry outsider into a Prada-wearing fixture of a socially promiscuous set that includes liberals like Tony Blair and the Google guys and Nicole Kidman and David Geffen.

He also claims that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama snubbed Murdoch for months before finally agreeing to a secret courtesy meeting this summer.

Obama was deferential to the press lord but lit into Fox chief Roger Ailes for caricaturing him as just short of a terrorist.

The meeting produced a tentative truce, says Wolff.

Despite his leftward slide, Wolff says Murdoch remains a militant free-marketeer and is still pro-war.

Rupert and Wendi had a legendary marital battle when he gave their daughters, Grace and Chloe, the same economic interest his four older children enjoyed in the family trust, but not a voting interest, according to Wolff.

The author also writes that, after taking advantage of the Bancroft family's weakness to buy the Wall Street Journal, the 77-year-old Murdoch admits he can't stop his family from losing hold of his empire after his death.

Says Murdoch: All I can do is delay it.

Remember the Monkey Business? McCain Is History!

The New York Times quoted anonymous aides as saying they had urged McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman to stay away from each other prior to his failed presidential campaign in 2000. In its own follow-up story, The Washington Post quoted longtime aide John Weaver, who split with McCain last year, as saying he met with lobbyist Iseman and urged her to stay away from McCain.

Donna Rice Hughes (born January 7, 1958) was a figure in the 1987 sex scandal that ended the first 1988 presidential campaign of Gary Hart. Since the mid-1990s, she has worked as an anti-pornography activist.

Early Years
The daughter of a highway engineer and secretary, Rice lived in Florida, Atlanta, and South Carolina. A self-described over-achiever, she began a modeling career at age 13 and worked at getting straight A's in high school while attending church and working in clothing stores. She graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1980, where she was both an honors student and cheerleader. Her senior year, though, she says "I began to compromise my Christian values—partying and dating guys who weren't Christians."[1] After graduating college, she stopped attending church, and was raped by an older man she was dating, but was too ashamed to tell anyone. She says the rape was "the turning point in my life, the catalyst that propelled me further into an unhealthy lifestyle."[1]. After winning the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant, she went to New York City to compete in the national event. She did not win, but remained in New York and pursued an acting and modeling career. In 1982, she moved to Miami, worked as a television actress, and for a pharmaceutical company and a small marketing business. It wasn't until March 1987 that she first met former senator Gary Hart at a Miami fundraiser.[1]

Photo of Donna Rice sitting on the knees of Gary Hart on the yacht Monkey Business, the climactic image that ended Hart's first 1988 presidential campaign.

Sex Scandal
Soon after meeting Rice, Hart announced his candidacy for President of the United States. Having put up a surprisingly strong fight in 1984 against the eventual nominee, former Vice President Walter Mondale, he was perceived as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 1988. But rumors quickly began circulating about Hart's infidelity to his wife, leading the candidate to challenge the media to follow him around and saying that anybody who did so would "be very bored." The day before that dare appeared in The New York Times, two reporters for the Miami Herald observed Rice coming out of Hart's Washington, DC townhouse and published the story on the day the dare appeared in print. Hart contended that the reporters had no way of knowing when Rice arrived or what she was doing there, but his popularity still took a major hit, and polls immediately found him 10 points behind Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. Two days after the story broke, the Herald obtained photographs of Rice sitting in Hart's lap in Bimini aboard a motor yacht called Monkey Business. The National Enquirer published the photographs, and just five days later, Hart dropped out of the race.[2][3]

As a result of the scandal, Rice lost her job as a marketing representative for a pharmaceutical company in South Florida.[4] However other offers flowed in; she refused most, including a Playboy appearance, but worked as a national spokesmodel for No Excuses jeans until Hart's unsuccessful re-entry into the presidential race in December 1987.[5]

 

After the Scandal
Rice met her future husband, Jack Hughes, on a blind date in 1991, and they married in May 7, 1994.[1]
From 1994 to 1999, she worked as Communications Director and Vice President of "Enough Is Enough", a nonprofit organization dedicated to stopping pornography, assisting victims, and making the Internet safe for children.[6] In 1999, Rice Hughes was appointed by then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) to a congressional panel.[7] As of 2005, she is the volunteer president of "Enough is Enough" and has co-written a book entitled Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace (ISBN 0-8007-5672-X).