Saudi Prince Buys 5% Stake in Fox,
By on Sep 26th, 2005 at 8:24 am
Saudi Prince Buys 5% Stake in Fox,
according to the Gulf Daily News. The prince, Al-Waleed bin Talal, blamed “US foreign policy and support for Israel” for the 9/11 attacks. (Via Sploid)
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What about those individuals who were arrested in New Jersey that were on the top of a building cheering when the planes hit the Twin Towers?
The Saudi businessman who sold his executive office suite in the Twin Towers for half of its value the day before the towers were struck, what about that?
A 5.46 percent stake of 954 million shares of FOX is 52,088,400 shares of common stock.
The new investor of FOX entertainment group will provide the correct answers, fair and balanced. Not necessarily the truth, but that won't matter.
September 26th, 2005 at 9:36 amNot surprising. Fox is all about the benjamins.
September 26th, 2005 at 9:37 amD'ya think the fools who get all their news from O'Lielly, Hannity et al will realize that their "fair and balanced" news channel is a propaganda arm of the Arabs - not to mention the cozy relationship the Bush family has had with Arabs for decades.
September 26th, 2005 at 9:42 amNothing surprising here. Fox News is at the forefront of the "Anyone but the Saudis" propapaganda campaign when it comes to the GWOT. This just formalizes the arrangement.
September 26th, 2005 at 9:46 amI love it. Maybe THIS will open people's eyes to the conflict of interest of corporate news ownership.
September 26th, 2005 at 9:49 amDon't know what happened to the links.
Link
FOX shares bought
Al-Waleed bin Talal has 1.6 billion dollars to spend on FOX? I can think of better ways to order money around.
September 26th, 2005 at 9:52 amHow 'bout "Faux Jazeera"? or "Faux Arabia"?
September 26th, 2005 at 10:06 amOh the dwindling credibility...
It is somewhat of a 'dangerous area,' I know. It is hardly objective, however, it is, for the most part, beneficial to add links that are of a dubious nature. In a word, it is 'laughable.' It lets you know what is really out there, not just the propaganda from MSM.
It does provide some insight into the problems that humans endure through the ages.
Here is a less objectionable point of view.
Somewhat off topic, but is an eye opener.
September 26th, 2005 at 10:48 amexcuse me Ron, question.
After following your links, am I to gather that you are indeed a White Supremicist, fascist Nazi?
What I mean is, that there is plausability in the mossad connection, if infact the reports that are mentioned are real (stolen passports of Atta and several other of the 11 Saudi hijackers, and the "dancing zionists" on 9/11 that were detained with box cutters, cash and fake passports...etc)
I even agree that Medicine (to all- if you dig deeper on the overthrow.com site there is other material relating to the following) is not the cure but addictive and not preventative or a solution to what causes the ailments. But to blame it all on the "jews, jews, jews" is a little far fetched. yes it all about money, but to promote "the white race" doesn't seem to be that "Progressive", does it?
So what the hell are you doing here besides spreading propaganda? and who is that nazi on the top of that site, himmler? dude, I think you need to get checked out.
September 26th, 2005 at 10:52 amthank you kindness, for getting to the point quicker and more succinct than I could with Ron- I think I stayed too long on the site to read the "White Man's Bible"- Like wdriving past a car wreck- I had to keep reading.
September 26th, 2005 at 10:56 amIs soft #### a good business for an Arab leader to be involved in?
We know that the Bush people in the US have no problem with money earned by pictures of 'page 3 girls' subsidizing his propaganda machine.
Dobson and Robertson feel fine about being associated with News Corp.
But somehow I think the clerics in Saudi Arabia might react differently.
"Meanwhile, strong advertising revenue - particularly at the tabloid Sun in the UK - pushed operating profits up at News Corp's newspaper division"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/business/3557250.stm
http://www.thesun.co.uk/
On the other hand, maybe it goes along with the recent permission the US gave them to continue their immoral slavery businesses.
September 26th, 2005 at 11:02 amEveryone accuses MSM as a propaganda arm for the US government. Everyone agrees and no one objects. What the MSM does is not that objectionable. It is not overt and is sexed-up, feel good propaganda, nonetheless. Even those who know what it is don't really object.
It is a real nice way to brainwash people. The in-your-face stuff is not nice. People find it extremely objectionable and intolerable.
Note the difference between the MSM and right wing propaganda. One wins you over, the other invites derision and criticism.
I have met people from all over the world, I am hardly a white supremacist. However, you are entitled to make judgments about anybody. It's a free country.
It's easy to criticize the MSM in a nice way. The MSM omits the objectionable stuff and inserts the really good stuff. 'nuff said.
September 26th, 2005 at 11:10 amI believe this says alot about the sheep that watch it. It's actually quite laughable (although not funny) that the very idiots who call us unpatriotic get all of their news from the Saudis. HA! Now let's just find a handy really short sound byte that people can latch onto and BAM!
September 26th, 2005 at 11:12 amIt's the old Pavlovian conditioned stimulus/conditioned response behavorial model at work here.
Unconditioned stimulus/unconditioned response is what Seth did after my post of a right wing link. It is to be expected and a shunning of what I did is the result.
The conditioned stimulus (warm and fuzzy, sexed-up television)/conditioned response (civilized, discreet nice talk about how the MSM is a sanctioned propaganda machine is what you get).
Just to let you know how you are subjected to propaganda everyday of your life.
Pavlov's experiments have been very valuable for the propagandists everywhere. Some are more adept at it than others.
September 26th, 2005 at 11:31 amThat site you referred certainly put you in a category. I personally think the Main Stream Media corrupt and compliant with a corrupt administration, i wasn't confronting you on that fact. Just where you choose to get your info from. It is a little heavy handed and out-there.
September 26th, 2005 at 11:39 amOn topic (this time). I had read in some blog or other last week that one of the Saudi Princes already owns 10% of Murdocks Fox News division ( I think it was on one of the righty sites I go to see what the other side says, what a waste of brain cells!). Is that true? I don't know. If it is, does that mean They now own 15% of Phaux?
On the hope that I don't offend anyone (yea, right!) I've chose to have some fun with it. Just imagine Bill O'Liely in a full muslim beard & turban shouting his lies. Just imagine Ann Coulter in a full burqa (with the face veil hopefully), or how about Pat Robertson teamed up with Osama bin Laden both praising god and saying how god hates other people but loves "OUR KIND".
OK so maybe it isn't so funny, but you go with it, see where it takes you.
September 26th, 2005 at 11:46 amLet me put it to you another way, Seth. A little ditty on Eldrigde Cleaver:
"I became a rapist," he wrote of his early years. At first, he raped black women, then "sought out white prey." In his view, "rape was an insurrectionary act." He was defying the white man's law and "defiling his women. . . . I felt I was getting revenge."
Now you have both side of the spectrum. A dialectic of didactic, so to speak. Good luck to ya
September 26th, 2005 at 12:01 pmRon, You are hijacking this thread for whatever twisted purpose you have.
STOP IT! Either stay on topic and say things along the discussion or GO AWAY!
I don't know what kind of sick mind you have. I'd prefer not to know. So stop telling us all exactly how sick you are.
September 26th, 2005 at 1:32 pmMurdoch had to take a poison pill to keep the Saudi prince from taking over AirNeoCon the FauxNews of the republican propaganda machine... I find it terribly funny!
September 26th, 2005 at 1:36 pm"The prince, Al-Waleed bin Talal, blamed “US foreign policy and support for Israel†for the 9/11 attacks."
If the guy weren't a Saudi billionaire, you would think the cat would be living in somewhere in the mountains of Idaho up by Ruby Ridge. He can spew anti-Jewish blather and it is tacitly condoned. Hows come?
When do you think the women at Fox News will be slowly marginalized from their news reporting positions?
September 26th, 2005 at 1:57 pmI wouldn't mind seeing Greta Van Facelift wearing a burka. Poetic justice from the Bush-Saudi junta.
September 26th, 2005 at 4:50 pm