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Cameron’s Statement and Questions

by $8 blue check mistermix|  July 20, 20116:50 am| 33 Comments

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  1. 1.

    MikeJ

    July 20, 2011 at 6:54 am

    It’s on cspan 2, also too.

  2. 2.

    Linda Featheringill

    July 20, 2011 at 7:13 am

    Cameron has some ‘splaining to do.

    Looking at the situation in UK from over here in the middle of North America, I get the impression that Lord Murdoch had his tentacles well within the government. It would be good for UK to get rid of that.

    In the US, he’s infiltrated a lot, too, although I really don’t know the extent of it. It sure would be nice to break loose from all forms of Murdoch Media and silence his infernal propaganda machines.

  3. 3.

    alwhite

    July 20, 2011 at 8:03 am

    I love Question Time and used to wish we did the same thing here. Every week the President should stand in front of the House and take questions from the members.

    Then I realize what that would actually be like. One of the teatards would rise with a ‘question’ that would consist of an hour of blovating bullshit ending in “Yes or no Mr. Obama, do you still beat your wife?” Followed by 2 hours of ‘analysis’ by the yapping heads explaining how this is good for the Republicans.

  4. 4.

    TreeBeard

    July 20, 2011 at 8:04 am

    I missed the whole ‘Teflon’ Tony Blair era, but Cameron is doing an admirably job of carrying on where Blair left off. Such a slimy weasel.

  5. 5.

    cathyx

    July 20, 2011 at 8:04 am

    I’m expecting Rupert Murdoch to be on suicide watch any moment now. Isn’t that what high profile people do when they feel the pinch? That way he’ll appear incapable of answering any more questions and he can hide out in one of his mansions until this is all over.

  6. 6.

    SteveinSC

    July 20, 2011 at 8:21 am

    The Question Time is fun, but not illuminating. Oddly Scarborough Time is getting at some good questions like Murdoch’s doddering-old-fool-act in front of the Parliamentary inquiry committee. The “I’m just so far out of it” act fits perfectly with Cameron’s responses in Parliament today. Tina what-ever-her-name-is on Scarface is saying Murdoch knows everything that goes on in News Corp. He might not have actually listened to the hacked phone messages, but he was known to be, and had to have been, involved enough to know what the big payoffs were about. Mikka correctly pointed out James had to be even more involved.

  7. 7.

    Frapalinger

    July 20, 2011 at 8:26 am

    SteveinSC
    @6
    Yeah, thank god for Mikka and Tina, because when I tuned in this morning to ruin the flavor of my breakfast, Morning Douche himself was just going on and on about what a loving father and good guy Rupert Murdoch is, and what a devoted wife he has. Honestly, that guy is as big wingnut as any clown on fox or hate radio. Why is he on MSNBC?

  8. 8.

    Frapalinger

    July 20, 2011 at 8:26 am

    Let’s hope this brings down Sully’s crush’s government.

  9. 9.

    stuckinred

    July 20, 2011 at 8:28 am

    Frapalinger
    Balance

  10. 10.

    geg6

    July 20, 2011 at 8:30 am

    Frapalinger @8:

    I’m beginning to think it’s not a matter of will Cameron’s government fall, but when.

  11. 11.

    stuckinred

    July 20, 2011 at 8:37 am

    Frapalinger

    BTW Mika sucks.

  12. 12.

    alwhite

    July 20, 2011 at 8:43 am

    @7 Frap – better than that the intern killer even dictated to MSNBC who other hosts could have on their shows as guests. Anyone mean to lil Joey got black listed.

  13. 13.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    July 20, 2011 at 8:43 am

    @stuckinred:

    Firsthand knowledge or just generally? ;)

  14. 14.

    Frapalinger

    July 20, 2011 at 8:45 am

    stuckinred,
    I’m well aware that Mika is terrible, she just is less of a childish dbag than Joe. Atleast I seemed to have missed Pat Buchanan today. Why is a man who recently wrote a book blaming Winston Churchill for the Holocaust on Television?

  15. 15.

    Frapalinger

    July 20, 2011 at 8:45 am

    stuckinred,
    I’m well aware that Mika is terrible, she just is less of a childish dbag than Joe. Atleast I seemed to have missed Pat Buchanan today. Why is a man who recently wrote a book blaming Winston Churchill for the Holocaust on Television?

  16. 16.

    Suffern ACE

    July 20, 2011 at 8:59 am

    @SteveinSC:

    He might not have actually listened to the hacked phone messages, but he was known to be, and had to have been, involved enough to know what the big payoffs were about.

    I think it would be a good idea to press to see how large these payoffs were, and where they came from. It wouldn’t be a bad idea at the next annual meeting or analyst call to ask the auditors directly what these payments were.

  17. 17.

    ...now I try to be amused

    July 20, 2011 at 9:20 am

    I love Question Time and used to wish we did the same thing here. Every week the President should stand in front of the House and take questions from the members.

    I’d enjoy watching Obama embarrass Republicans every week.

  18. 18.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    July 20, 2011 at 9:27 am

    @stuckinred: OT: how is mrs. stuckinred?
    And wouldn’t it be interesting to see some, um, shareholder questions about the payoffs?

  19. 19.

    eric

    July 20, 2011 at 9:33 am

    does anyone know or heard if sarbanes oxley is gonna come into play for the us arm of news corp?

  20. 20.

    Jack Bauer

    July 20, 2011 at 9:33 am

    Textbook wankery from Sullivan here. If anyone wonders how the upper classes and those who wish they were in it (Andrew), keep a hold on power, his recent post is perfect. Utter avoidance of the deep corruption that harms the public good, instead its all ‘Etonian stiff upper lip’ BS. I fucking hate Tories.

    Oh, and both sides do it, Labour too! Without pointing out that New Labour’s closeness with Murdoch was just an example of how powerful he had become. And more of the dismissive “the public don’t care” nonsense that Massie had been peddling in his absence.

  21. 21.

    pattonbt

    July 20, 2011 at 9:39 am

    Since he is now in the “mock” column, you should see Sully’s “Ode to Manhood” on Cameron this morning. There must be slobber all over his keyboard. He really will never break from his rightward leanings. Like all the other “sane” right leaning pundits, they will always come back home at the slightest hint that something positive happens. They will continue to, forever, suck at that teat of right power no matter how many times those damned pesky facts tell them they are utterly and completely wrong.

    But boy! Look at that True Man ™ Cameron. He will definitely save us all!

  22. 22.

    Nutella

    July 20, 2011 at 9:59 am

    @eric:

    It should. One thing Sarbanes Oxley requires is corporate record-keeping which makes all those ‘lost’ emails likely illegal.

    A Tory MP this morning said that they and the press shouldn’t be wasting time on this because children are starving in Africa. Quote from the Guardian:

    Penny Mordaunt, a Conservative, says the aid agencies are saying that donations to famine relief in east Africa are down because the phone hacking scandal is taking up too much media attention.

  23. 23.

    Nutella

    July 20, 2011 at 10:04 am

    Many are worried that a result of this mess may be government control of the press as a reaction to the Murdoch press controlling the government.

    Another really bad idea mentioned in this morning’s coverage:

    opening up new entry points into the police so that some foreign top cops such as Bill Bratten, the former New York police chief, can join the police at a high level here.

    I hope the UK can pursue the criminals aggressively without making their institutions (press, police, government) even worse.

  24. 24.

    scav

    July 20, 2011 at 10:05 am

    I like the quick cuts between old BBC clips of mythical debates in Eton and Balliol with clips of what is clearly Romper Room on Corn Syrup Day.

  25. 25.

    Silver

    July 20, 2011 at 10:07 am

    @Frapalinger

    Are you sure you didn’t misread that book? Knowing Buchanan’s sentiments, I find it somewhat surprising that he’d blame anyone for the Holocaust.

  26. 26.

    Nutella

    July 20, 2011 at 10:15 am

    Another amazing thing in the Guardian: The Dowler’s lawyer said he and an MP were threatened with a lawsuit by the police for talking about the phone hacking. Wow.

  27. 27.

    scav

    July 20, 2011 at 10:29 am

    Sugar’s wearing off. That’s actually reassuring. And I’ve finally got a mention of The Other Place said by someone not a member of Equity.

  28. 28.

    handsmile

    July 20, 2011 at 11:15 am

    Nutella (#23):

    “Many are worried that a result of this mess may be government control of the press as a reaction to the Murdoch press controlling the government.”

    My great fear is that it will be this exact sentiment that will be employed and amplified disingenuously to impede or hobble investigations of Murdoch’s media empire. The Washington Post was first out of the gate with such handwringing, followed by the BBC and that champion of an unfettered press, the Wall Street Journal. (These are the major news organs I’m aware of.)

    I fully expect to see and read a horde of recent coverts to First Amendment absolutism should the Justice Department pursue a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation. Such efforts will be less successful in England as media laws there are more stringent (at least in theory) and there is a broader spectrum of media enterprises.

    While only tangentially related to the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal, here is another Guardian article on more corruption in Scotland Yard:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/20/police-spy-on-climate-activists-unlawful

    Sir Hugh Orde, the police official expected to replace Paul Stephenson as head of the Metropolitan Police, has himself been implicated in the recent dismissal of convictions of 20 British eco-activists. According to a senior judicial review, undercover police officers unlawfully spied upon protestors and acted as ‘agents provocateur.” Orde runs the association which until recently conducted the network of undercover officers tasked with spying on political groups.

    Concentric circles of corruption continue to engulf and intermingle the media, political, and law enforcement elites of British civil society.

  29. 29.

    Nutella

    July 20, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    @handsmile:

    Wow, that undercover cop spied on the environmental activists for seven years before they planned something illegal. They were arrested before actually doing anything illegal and now all charges are dropped due to prosecutorial errors/misconduct. Plenty of money in the budget for crap like that but austerity for everything else.

    And you’re right about the freedom of the press issue. It’s going to be tough to maintain actual press freedom while cracking down on crimes and corrupt practices committed by the press and many will try to hide the crimes under the flag of press freedom.

    UK still seems to have a few honest judges, though, so there’s hope.

  30. 30.

    JGabriel

    July 20, 2011 at 1:08 pm

    The Gurardian:

    [Cameron] told MPs there had been no “inappropriate conversation” [regarding BSkyB] – pointing to the fact that Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International, had said the same thing to the culture select committee on Tuesday.
    __
    Labour’s Barry Gardiner later asked him whether this meant he had had “appropriate” conversations during some of the 26 listed meetings he had with senior figures at News International.
    __
    Cameron replied: “All my conversations are appropriate.”

    How very dull for his wife.

    .

  31. 31.

    Nutella

    July 20, 2011 at 1:08 pm

    The undercover cops who spent years in protest groups were part of the Met’s counter-terrorist division, the same division that the Murdoch phone hacking investigation was assigned to hidden in.

    They seemed to have no limits to their budget and the time they could spend on groups doing civil disobedience (non-violent law-breaking, that is, NOT terrorism).

    Nice quote about one of the cops who had spent years undercover with one group:

    “He said he missed that [activist] life – he said it was great because it was like being God. He knew everyone’s secrets on both sides and got to decide what to tell who and decide upon people’s fate.”

    from the Guardian

  32. 32.

    JGabriel

    July 20, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    The Guardian:

    News Corporation has stopped paying Glenn Mulcaire’s legal fees. In a statement it said: “News Corporation’s management and standards committee met this morning and has decided to terminate the arrangement to pay the legal fees of Glenn Mulcaire with immediate effect.”

    Alternate headline: Glenn Mulcaire’s Silence Terminated.

    Seriously, I wonder if Mulcaire will turn around and start implicating NI executives in his activities. OTOH, I suppose if he’d had any direct contacts with NI execs, they wouldn’t be cutting him off.

    .

  33. 33.

    Nutella

    July 20, 2011 at 1:30 pm

    @JGabriel:

    They only stopped paying his legal bills because Rupert blurted out yesterday that they were paying them. If that hadn’t been exposed they would still be buying his silence.

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