Wall Street Journal Continues Counterattack On Basic Morality

The Wall Street Journal has always been a foaming-at-the-mouth right wing rag on its editorial and op-ed pages. This preceded Murdoch's takeover by decades. Nothing has changed in that regard since.

So no doubt they would be rabidly defending "News" Corp. even if it wasn't now part of "News" Corp.

Today they're at it again (apparently this is going to be a daily thing going forward from now on), this time with an op-ed by a couple of legal hitmen from the GOP, name of David B. Rifkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, oppressors who operated out of the Department of "Justice" during the regimes of Reagan and Bush the Elder. They INSIST, bizarrely, that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act DOES NOT APPLY TO MEDIA CORPORATIONS. (I know, it's ridiculous. It's not worth bothering repeating their pseudo-legal legerdemain here, much less refuting it.) The reason they are saying this is because some U.S, senators think "News" Corp. may have violated it by bribing British policemen. [In fact, bribing police in the UK would MOST DEFINITELY BE  a violation of the FCPA.]

So this is an attempt to head off at the pass any motion to investigate "News" Corp. for criminal violations in the U.S. Not to worry, the FBI is a rightwing political police who can surely be counted on to give "News" Corp. protection in this regard. And since the U.S. is in an advanced state of political degeneracy, totally dominated by reactionaries and neofascists, nothing will come of it. But reactionaries are nothing if not hysterical, thus the overreaction. The title of this commentary shrieks of "The New First Amendment Threat." See, raise a finger to enforce laws against Rupert Murdoch, and you're assaulting our precious freedoms!

Get bent, you right-wing dogs.