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About tony blair as a politician. he was seen ashthis incredibly effective, incredibly nimble politician who was great at getting elected but who was also so thoroughly and desperately a politician that it was a little bit unnerving. but maybe being craven, maybe being that much of a politician was part of how skilled he was. key to tony blair's rise to power was the fact he was able to get the all-powerful rupert murdoch media machine behind him in the late '90s. rupert murdoch was just as right wing then as he is now. but his right-wing tabloid "the sun," which is as dominant in british tabl...

Power. about tony blair as a politician. he was seen ashthis incredibly effective, incredibly nimble politician who was great at getting elected but who was also so thoroughly and desperately a politician that it was a little bit unnerving. but maybe being craven, maybe being that much of a politician was part of how skilled he was. key to tony blair's rise to power was the fact he was able to get the all-powerful rupert murdoch media machine behind him in the late '90s. rupert murdoch was just as right wing then as he is now. but his right-wing tabloid "the sun," which is as dominant in brit...

He got rupert murdoch and his media empire in britain to endorse the conservative party in the last election and that's part of why the tories are now in power. in the united states at home there are influential rupert murdoch newspapers too. amazin!e1"át+hr'clude the "wall street journal" now, which i have to say is still as astonishing as the day it happened. but rupert murdoch's flagship in america of course is the fox news channel. fox news is an unrivaled success in broadcast media and part of their incomparable success is due to the fact they tell their viewers don't trust anybody else....

And tony blair. so after nearly two decades of the labour party in exile, tony blair got rupert murdoch's backing. that helped him get elected prime minister. labour got to be in charge of britain for the next decade. george w. bush got a new poodle. and we all got the iraq war. whatever you think of what tony blair did with his time in power, his rise to power was skilled, very skilled. and that skill was manifest in part with his triumph in the murdoch primary. josh marshall at the website talking points memos has been writing about this. he wrote about it this past summer and again today. t...

In the united states at home there are influential rupert murdoch newspapers too. amazingly, they include the "wall street journal" now, which i have to say is still as astonishing as the day it happened. but rupert murdoch's flagship in america of course is the fox news channel. fox news is an unrivaled success in broadcast media and part of their incomparable success is due to the fact they tell their viewers don't trust anybody else. right? this is a technique that was essentially pioneered by rush limbaugh and then all of his imitators in right-wing talk radio, which is not only to just at...