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News Corp Has Already Admitted To Hacking!

For anyone out there thinking News Corp is innocent, we just need to look back to 2009:

News Corporation admitted at a trial in 2009 that computers at its U.S. marketing division, News America Marketing, hacked into the secure website of a rival U.S.-based company 11 times, according to Bloomberg.

The FBI is currently investigating allegations that News Corp, the parent company of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, attempted to bribe police and hack into the cell phones of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) wrote Tuesday to Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller to highlight the hacking allegation made by Floorgraphics Inc.

Floorgraphics claimed in a lawsuit that News America Marketing stole business from the company by hacking into Floorgraphics website between October 2003 to January 2004. The company agreed to dismiss the case after receiving a $29.5 million payment from News America Marketing.

So we've got an actual admission by News Corp that they have engaged in this illegal activity before, yet somehow Murdoch thinks he is innocent?

Welcome to ultimate responsibility Rupert! Your company paid out almost $30 million and admitted to hacking just two years ago, yet you claim you have no responsibility? Maybe it's time for you to go back to the land you were born, the land that was once known for being a place that criminals were sent. You should feel right at home there you ass hat!

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Hannity Cancels His Live Show From Tonight’s Tea Bagger Rally

Well this is certainly going to leave some tea baggers in tears:

FoxNews commentator Sean Hannity has cancelled his appearance and broadcast at a Tea Party rally at Fifth Third Arena.

Hannity planned to tape his television show from the event, which starts at 6 p.m. at the University of Cincinnati.

Organizers of the rally said there were technical issues, but that the overriding factor for the cancellation was a personal matter that Hannity needed to attend to in New York.

WLWT was the first to report that there were issues when Hannity failed to appear at a book signing at 4:30 p.m. Minutes later, Hannity's bus was seen leaving the campus.

He failed to appear at the book signing and now won’t be doing his show tonight? Oh my inquisitive little mind is going a mile a minute right now.

UPDATE

This little juicy bit from the LA Times:

Angry Fox News executives ordered host Sean Hannity to abandon plans to broadcast his nightly show as part of a Tea Party rally in Cincinnati on Thursday after top executives learned that he was set to headline the event, proceeds from which would benefit the local Tea Party organization.

Maybe Rupert made a call to them?

UPDATE II:

The more I think about this, the more I believe the legal people at Fox probably weren’t to happy with Hannity doing this. He is essentially using FOX News as an outlet to raise money for the Tea Party, and that could spell some trouble with the FCC and FEC. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if this leads to the end of Hannity on Fox. Yeah Murdoch is a wingnut, but more than that he is a business man.

Happy New Years – FOX Style

FOX let people text in messages to appear on their ticker New Year’s Eve. If the message was approved by their “moderators”, then it would appear on live, national teevee. WooHoo. So what kind of messages did they approve? This kind:

A new year and a new low for Rupert and his merry pact of racist assholes.

News Corp Has Already Admitted To Hacking!

Hannity Cancels His Live Show From Tonight’s Tea Bagger Rally

Happy New Years – FOX Style

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