What Rupert Murdock could do next in U.S.!

Check out the kind of attacks Rupert Murdock is unleashing on the liberal party in Australia. He even compares the current Prime Minister of a Nazi, via a doctored Hogan's Heroes picture:

Imagine what he could do here...Fox News is just one channel. Should out media source for news go this far? And isn't it funny how liberal compromisers and peaceniks are always portrayed as a ruthless "mob." This slide show video has no audio:

In the past week Murdoch seems to have channelled his cash cow by ordering his Australian newspapers (which control 70 per cent of metropolitan daily sales) to release the hounds on prime minister Kevin Rudd and his Labor government.

After the federal election was announced last Sunday, the following day’s Daily Telegraph tabloid front page screamed in huge capital letters that its readers should “KICK THIS MOB OUT” and elect Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott as prime minister. On Thursday, the Telegraph lampooned Rudd and deputy prime minister Anthony Albanese as Nazis from the 1960s comedy show Hogan’s Heroes.

On May 20th last, Murdoch used his Twitter account to say “nothing can save this miserable government. Election cannot come soon enough.”

Murdock's News of the World paper closes in U.K. after Phone Hacking Scandals.

Fox News may be in big trouble in the U.S., after their scandal ridden U.K paper was forced to close do to reader outrage and backlash. If this doesn't raise a few red flags in the U.S., I don't know what will.

News of the World to close on Sunday

The Nation's Chris Hayes, filling in for Lawrence O'Donnell, covered the story just prior to today's announcement with a few more AMAZING details:

ThinkProgress: Rupert Murdoch’s son and News Corp’s Deputy COO James Murdoch announced today that the company’s 168-year old British tabloid News of the World will shut down this Sunday after its journalists hacked phones, including those belonging to family members of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Noting that two employees went to jail for similar acts in 2006, Murdoch said News of the World “failed to get to the bottom of repeated wrongdoing.” There are two ongoing police investigations and inquiries by Parliament into these allegations, and reports suggest that the five journalists and executives involved in the hacking may be arrested by the end of the week.