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Rupert Murdoch: 'Doubtful' That Romney Will Beat Obama In 2012 Election

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Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter on Sunday to weigh in the U.S. presidential election.
"Met Romney last week. Tough O Chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful," he wrote.



This is just the latest in a series of anti-Romney tweets. Last week, the News Corp CEO wrote that Romney "Seems to play everything safe, make no news except burn off Hispanics."
Murdoch's criticism may come as a surprise to those who watch and follow right-leaning Fox News (which Murdoch owns.) The network has offered generally positive coverage of the GOP candidate. Earlier this year, Romney told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham that Fox has given his campaign "good, fair play." Even Newt Gingrich complained that "Fox has been for Romney all the way through."



Rupert Murdoch: 'Doubtful' That Romney Will Beat Obama In 2012 Election
 
Yep. What happened to that Romney surge, anyway? :)

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lpast said:
Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter on Sunday to weigh in the U.S. presidential election.
"Met Romney last week. Tough O Chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful," he wrote.



This is just the latest in a series of anti-Romney tweets. Last week, the News Corp CEO wrote that Romney "Seems to play everything safe, make no news except burn off Hispanics."
Murdoch's criticism may come as a surprise to those who watch and follow right-leaning Fox News (which Murdoch owns.) The network has offered generally positive coverage of the GOP candidate. Earlier this year, Romney told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham that Fox has given his campaign "good, fair play." Even Newt Gingrich complained that "Fox has been for Romney all the way through."



Rupert Murdoch: 'Doubtful' That Romney Will Beat Obama In 2012 Election
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Let's remember that Murdoch has potential problems with the FCC and other government agencies regarding the probes going on about his news folks caught doing illegal acts. So of course he will stroke whomever is in power in the hope they won't come down on him.
 
washunut said:
Let's remember that Murdoch has potential problems with the FCC and other government agencies regarding the probes going on about his news folks caught doing illegal acts. So of course he will stroke whomever is in power in the hope they won't come down on him.
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Some how doubt that...Murdoch's political influence is too big in the US to actually damage him in any way. Last person who tried this was Bill Clinton, and the end result there was Fox News.
 
lpast said:
Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter on Sunday to weigh in the U.S. presidential election.
"Met Romney last week. Tough O Chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful," he wrote.



This is just the latest in a series of anti-Romney tweets. Last week, the News Corp CEO wrote that Romney "Seems to play everything safe, make no news except burn off Hispanics."
Murdoch's criticism may come as a surprise to those who watch and follow right-leaning Fox News (which Murdoch owns.) The network has offered generally positive coverage of the GOP candidate. Earlier this year, Romney told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham that Fox has given his campaign "good, fair play." Even Newt Gingrich complained that "Fox has been for Romney all the way through."



Rupert Murdoch: 'Doubtful' That Romney Will Beat Obama In 2012 Election
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It's an interesting occurance. I'm sure that in some way this was carefully constructed for one reason or another. Somehow I don't picture Rupert sitting there with a cell phone tweeting about his breakfast cereal.

I'm sure he means for it to either distance himself from Romney, or to give him helpful hints. Or some other PR purpose that I haven't thought of.
 
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