Strange bedfellows? Nah, they're just all evil.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0509-09.htm

This ought to hurt some people's brains...

Published on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 by the Financial Times
Murdoch to Host Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton
by Caroline Daniel


Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul whose New York Post tabloid savaged Hillary Clinton’s initial aspirations to become a US senator for New York, has agreed to host a political fundraiser for her re-election campaign.

The decision underlines an incongruous thawing of relations between Mr Murdoch and Mrs Clinton, who in 1998 coined the phrase “vast rightwing conspiracy” to denounce critics of her husband, such as Fox News, the conservative cable channel owned by Mr Murdoch’s News Corporation.
 
Well of COURSE he wants her reelected to the Senate

a) She sells his crap - not just tabloids but NOTHING gets the wingnuts riled up like the Clinton name being in the news - and who do they turn to for info when they are riled up?

b) She would have even more time to campaign for the big chair in 08 if she wasn't a Senator :evil:
 
I thought I had heard of this alliance before.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060116&s=smith011606

It was hard for the Post to find fault with that, and, two days after Christmas 2001, the editorial board made a rare admission of error. "Hillary Rodham Clinton has been in the United States Senate for a year, less five days, and the world hasn't come to an end," said the editorial. "OK, so we were wrong. More than that, we're pleasantly surprised in many respects by the former first lady's performance so far." Their praise for Clinton's position on the decision to go to war, which she voted to authorize, and for expanding the military, culminated in an editorial last July headlined "hillary clinton: the unlikely warrior."
Beyond these bromides is a realization by both Clinton and Murdoch that their relationship can be mutually beneficial. Murdoch's history with Prime Minister Tony Blair offers the blueprint: After then-candidate Blair flew to Australia's Hayman Island to address executives of Murdoch's News Corporation, Murdoch's British papers abandoned the Tories to support him. Murdoch would go on to benefit from Blair's media deregulation. Murdoch's career has featured such episodes of putting business interests ahead of ideology, as when a publishing company under his control dropped a memoir critical of the Chinese government. "It's a lot about Rupert," says a former Post editor, Lou Colasuonno, about the changes at his old paper. "He's smart about where he thinks he needs to be, and his ideology is often less important than his business."
 
I find Hillary alot less offensive than Rupert and Fox News. Anyway, I quess he knows enough that he needs to cut a deal to gain access to the next administration.
 
I don't see how you could call either of them the extreme. Hillary is roundly loathed from the left and the right, as was her husband. Murdoch is a bit of an ideologue, but he's mostly in it for the money. Well, like Lennin is supposed to have said, the capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him.
 
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