Murdoch smacks down Fox News anchor for mentioning hacking scandal

[neovintageretro]

Faux News?

[Jack72824]

SERVANT: Mr Chairman thanks very much for joining us. We appreciate it, sir.

MURDOCH: Fine. Good afternoon.

SERVANT: Ah, the story that is really buzzing all round the country and certainly here in New York is that the News of the World, a News Corporation paper in Britain, used----

MURDOCH: I'm not talking about that today, sorry.

SERVANT: Okay. No worries Mr Chairman, that's fine with me.

MURDOCH: Sorry.

SERVANT: That's all right sir.

[cbak12sg]

On the BBC, Paxman would not hold back in an interview with the corporation's chairman or director general. All this clip tells me is "Where on your ass would you like me to kiss you, Dear Chairman?"

[ImaginedWriter]

So much for being a proper news channel.

[triputean]

what a fanny.

[morgywops]

Is that a spot of Murdoch's faeces sitting on the end of that arsewipe anchors nose?

[beefy69]

looks like a nazi warcriminal

[dangerouslytalented]

How quickly was he able to slap his hoe back down?

[dangerouslytalented]

@mrcardio9r and CNN are trying to become FOX...

[TheDesertwalker]

Fox people are ass-kissers and media whores. Nobody at Fox earns an "honest living".

[TheDesertwalker]

Fox people are ass-kissers and media whores.

[xadam2dudex]

Stuart Varney is such an ass kisser I am surprised he even brought up the issue..I guess his bosses thought he had enough sense not to bring up the truth with old man Murdoch...anybody that thinks FOX fake propaganda news is a news network needs to have his head examined after headhunters reduce it to fit their brain size

[MrDoublehappy]

Murdoch is a scumbag hypocrite and looks like a clown with his hair dyed - Evil

[TheRevolutionCanada]

This is definition of Censorship!!!!!

[Fireflygamer]

Why do i hear the imperal thyme and the guy say thank you for joining use to day emperor of the first five seconds of this clip. Is it just me?

[keptyeti]

This is serious journalism. Great work FOCKS!

[chronDiggity]

Yeah, some journalism there. ALROIT SUH, ROIT AWEY SUH, MAY I SUCK YOR COCK SUH?

[opsvideo2008]

And to be fair to the Fox newsman, you always have to know which side your bread is buttered on. I can't and I don't blame him for quickly closing down the conversation.

[chronDiggity]

@opsvideo2008

OH BULLSHIT. He's a "journalist" he's SUPPOSED to ask questions. Imagine if that was Obama.

This is proof it's a buttkissing sham over at fox news.

[opsvideo2008]

@chronDiggity If you were in his shoes & you have a wife & five kids to feed, what would you have done? It's easier said than done for the casual observer than for the person caught in such an unfortunate situation. I am not saying he is right but it seems that's the way it is done at Fox. By the way, I have personally heard of journalist being fired for asking powerful people the "wrong" questions, putiing them in a tight spot in front of eveyone. It is not right but that' the way it goes.

[chronDiggity]

@opsvideo2008

I wouldn't be in that bag of snot's position, and if I was, I'd throw everything I earned with Satan's money away for the chance to grill the shit out of a man who allowed people to do unthinkably horrendous acts.

I know, money talks and bullshit walks, but that journalist would have found a job at TWICE the salary at MSNBC. He's a far right kiss ass, though, so this was never an issue for him.

[opsvideo2008]

@chronDiggity You must understand that all I am saying is that he is earning an honest living to support himself and his family, which is laudable. And also it is no big sin before God or a big crime in society that he did not grill his chairman about the scandal. He was being prudent. But you are right in one way. If he is into serious & professional journalism, perhaps he should be working for someone else. But bear in mind that not everyone is into such idealism.

[opsvideo2008]

Ha, Ha Ha ! " No Worries, Mr Chairman " That about tells you all on how Fox News operates. It is Ok to dig up the scandal of just about everyone except the scandal of your chairman. LOL! Just like what this quote says..."Some animals are more equal than others."......George Orwell, Animal Farm.

[whereitsat309]

Varney is such a little arse licker...

[ahmenpistachio]

Sickening. journalism is dead.

[MsDDiddy]

@ahmenpistachio but not yellow journalism. that's still alive and well.

[SuperJedda1]

Would he have let anybody else brush him off like that this is so wrong on so many levels this is what you get when the owner will write the news As for Varney the forlock tuggng creepy cluster-fuck who has lost his street cred fair and balanced my arse.

[ERROLCUSTERFLYNN4EVR]

GO HOME LIMEY SCUM!

[mstngs351]

The title of this vid is crap. He declined to talk about it, he didn't smack Staurt down. I love how people point fingers at Fox saying they are biased and try to distort the news while the sites/videos they watch and post do the same thing. Hippocrates.

[AgdrAgon999]

@mstngs351 he took a different kind of Hippocratic Oath. lol

[mstngs351]

@AgdrAgon999 want to hear something else kinda funny? I misspelled it in the first place and just clicked on the auto correct. Double face palm :P

[AgdrAgon999]

@mstngs351 it's all good :) I just had to have some fun with it.

[BeastLingo42]

@mstngs351

Hippocrates was a Greek physician in the fifth century BC.

[walderness]

This clip is but 1 more example proving that journalists are not independent at Newscorp. Murdoch has them in line and, apparently, frightened. Did you hear how quickly he apologized and changed the subject? Murdoch must not be disobeyed apparently.

[mstngs351]

@walderness "ok, no worries Mr chairman..." That was hardly an apology and certainly not a frightened one. But go ahead and keep seeing what you want.

[elsolyo12]

WOW, so much hate for Murdoch, im just wondering where you all have been when CNN and MSNBC helped Obama get elected not doing their job about his good friends. So much Righteous indignation going on here.

[NiceHandTick]

Any thing from Fox Lies is horrible. Disgraceful Television for sure.

[MrMic1146]

Stuart Varney fell short of "The Friendly Reach Around"after he got F""KED! Tipical Fox News suckass!

[wuuspigs]

Fifteen lashes.

[dreamcastftwb1tch3s]

That Murdoch is a piece of shit. His news outlets are just a reflection of him

[ThailandKyle]

As I thought I could not despise Murdoch any more than I already did, last week I found out he is one of these perverts that exploits a girl 40 years his junior when learning about his wife. Quite disturbing.

[marcos20alves]

hahaha no worries highness, I do not wanna lose my job

[noJungleKiss]

Coughlan000 had it right: the only thing that was "fair and balanced" was Rupert Murdoch's balls in Stuart Varney's mouth.

[joshhrst]

2 WHISTLEBLOWERS DEAD, NO MEDIA COVERAGE

[splicedenergy]

@joshhrst 2? I thought only the one?

[obaidCarkey]

"no worries mr. chairman!

should i suck your dick?"

[MrHaggis03]

Chicken shit journalism at its best.

[Solarfactor]

Grovelling little worm. 

[skawashers]

A News Anchor Man loses his Job no doubt.. For asking the wrong person the right questions. Even if the anchor guy is a Total right wing scum fuck. But just look on the reaction on Murdochs face. As he so didnt expect to be questioned on his own network

[hellojulie]

ok, no problem! It's not an important story anyway! FAIR AND BALANCED!!!!

[albear972]

Nice as kissing there.

[IHateStaleCrackers]

Mr. Chairman.

[cadillacblades]

There is alot of fox news zombies..hope they get pulled off air soon so the zombies can think for them selves

[letslik]

fox news,the home of bleached bottle blondes is getting what they deserve! does anyone know what percentage of fox news contributors are fair and balanced?

[willrobg]

@letslik Fox is far more fair and balanced than the rest of the lame stream media. If you watched it at all you would know.

[SOSnUSA]

@willrobg You think Fox is fair and the others are bias, In Reality all of them misinform the people and are clearly bias in favor of their political party. Trusting any of them is a mistake.

[agus2001]

He should't have called him Mr. Chairman... Lord Vader or Sithious would be more fitting.

[slicvic2012]

Biting the Devilish, scaley, reptilian hand that feeds him lol!

[EdsonAvilaTorres]

So what the heck was he there for???

[angelo908638]

FOX news is DOOMED with it's fake journalists... LMAO

[willrobg]

@angelo908638 What doyou recommend for a news source? MSNBC? Now those are fake journalists.

[OrganNLou]

Fox is DONE!!!!!!

[Hogfather]

Is it just me... or do those sunglasses make murdock look like one of the aliens in the terminal area from Men in Black?

[timm1720]

LMAO! "No worries, Mr Chairman Sir, may I powder your balls, they look sweaty, Sir"

[whiteliberal1]

@timm1720 LOL..... I may have to steal that one if you don't mine.

[timm1720]

@whiteliberal1

Be my guest!

[187prettyboy]

I remember this Fox News reporter always bullying people in interviews. Now its "no worries chairman", it does not fit our selective outrage machine.

[deniro999]

this is why individuals cant or shouldnt own news stations it just serves their agenda. news has to be as objective impartial and balanced as possible. that is why the ONLY news channel respected the world over is still the BBC

[kittypie070]

goddammit ThinkProgress, why the hell do you have to stick your watermark on the vids you post!?

no one that I know will want to even give me the fking time of day if they see that imprimatur when I wanna show the vid to them

[MontagueBurton]

Imagine if for a moment he'd said, 'Fuck you Mr Chairman, answer my question you wrinkled old scrotum." He'd have been sacked but hailed as a hero the next day, and hired by rival broadcaster.

[AceHoale]

Grovelling douchebag alert!

Yes, SIR Captain, my liege!

May I swallow, Sir or is your jizz too noble for my bowels?

If so , I DO apologize in a very apologetic manner, I'll go flay myself after you're done with my dignity, little what I had left...

In better times I'd LOL!

Peas.

[iluvgoldfrapp]

Fox News = Red Chinese News

[AgdrAgon999]

@iluvgoldfrapp Fox Business has some sort of a good side, though, with both Stossel and Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano :)

[papersplease]

Varney was later executed behind the Fox News building with a single shot to the back of his head.

[hawkermustang]

Murdoch is a liberal! lol

[papersplease]

@hawkermustang I was was wondering when the right would start throwing their propaganda minister under the bus

[TheBearMcGowan]

Holy crap ! What a freaking brownnoser !

[Guerillaradio13]

lol fox news SIGH

[esopxe]

Don't fool yourselves (some of you). All mainstream "news" channels are run the same way as Fox. The public is not in their best interests. Their interests are with the mega-corporations and banks.

[thereallurker]

If he was a democrat, Fox would have been all over his ass calling him a pinhead.

[movement26]

Varney ( what a creep)............very sorry for asking you a question that might cause you a liitle distress sir..........please forgive me, I am very low in the food chain.

[Iownubiatch1]

fox news = warthog shit

[Francebrasil]

No wprries Mr. Chairman.. I am a Fox News journalist. Can I suck you instead???

[Rexcetera]

Wow.This is the NEWS. Yes somehow Fox has never really understood what news is.

"No worries Mr. Chairman."

[wrjszu]

are you fucking serious?

[SoINeedAName48]

Fuck Fox

[movement26]

@darkst4r1 That was two years ago..........Take a look at him now.

[rocky19421]

FOX News: We invade your privacy, destroy evidence, fuck with the grieving, lie, cheat and steal, make excuses, minimize our evil, bribe our way to access, and come up with imaginary boogeymen, you decide.

Faux should be spending their time on important issues like Obama's birth certificate, hot white girls who go missing, Pippa Middleton's sex life, and Miley Cyrus showing off her tattoo.

[DCTheGuitarist]

Someone is going to need to find a new job Monday

[PurushaDesa]

@bathroommonkey76

Heeheehee!

Anyway, Steve Coogan used the magic phrase as well - morally bankrupt - when he (and Greg Dyke) laid into the repulsive ex-NotW hack Paul McMullen on Newsnight. Don't know if you saw that. It was cathartic.

watch?v=ZV9Sh_R3wB4

[surfin4]

@themoshmenace an itinerant illiterate at that.....still think you would make great soup.......the alternative is a cold one.

[knucklestails11]

''and the man on the left was never seen again''

[HolyCity2012]

One is only able to imagine who the 10 viewers are who voted this with a thumbs down rating.

[surfin4]

@themoshmenace your either brainwashed to the degree of being a cabage......... or your a traitor to your own country

[jubz1]

This is one of the most pitiful "interviews" i've ever seen. Holy Shit. Sir.

[Bleuski]

@themoshmenace "I've seen many people being interviewed on news programs who refuse to talk about certain subjects or refuse to anwer a question. That's their right. And any one who continues to pursure that person on that question is not being professional."

You don't understand the point of journalism at all.

[JilesDauz]

This video tells you how to spell capitulate.

[dirdbou]

@themoshmenace Are you serious? Murdoch has personally contributed to how sick and devoid of integrity the media is today. Do you seriously think that after you bring in a man surrounded by an INTERNATIONAL scandal, you can choose not to talk about it? If Foxnews was a real news agency, or if they even hired real journalist, foxnews viewers wouldn't be kept in the dark about this. Keep drinking your koolaid.

[ayinozendy]

What did Murdoch say at 0:21 ?

[davidhrod]

Scumbag boss

[milkshaker74]

that's all right sir!

[Robstailey]

0:11 smile turns into teeth gritting

[DaveScott69]

No worries Mr. Chairman, let's move on. Now, can you please let go of my balls?

[skankuser]

Conservatives should be pissed at this guy, as he's taken a news network and made the conservative wing into a flaming pile of neo-conservative hacks. They've lost their way.

Funny. If you head over to the FOX News website, you'll hardly see a mention of this scandal. That's ok Murdoch. You'll be enjoying prison soon enough you piece-of-shit, so go ahead and try and hide it all you want.

[TrollBuster9090]

"Mr. Chairman" indeed. I think you're mistaking him for Mao. 

[jamesflory]

"smacks down"?

[GlennBeckMurder]

Rupert is going to jail, and if he doesn't, his son will.

And THAT will be a Shakespearean tragedy because his son was only copying his fathers modus operandi.

[guwest2]

@GlennBeckMurder which Shakepeare tragedy has that plot? It ain't in Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth or Othello. Are you a septic?

[vonerotateca]

LOL Stuart just got what little balls he had left, chopped off by his boss. What a spineless little pussy.

[PurushaDesa]

@bathroommonkey76

Sorry, but it was hard to tell because you ran on seamlessly with such obvious sincerity. It looked like you wanted us to get fucked over because we're not America!

[PurushaDesa]

@bathroommonkey76

"Murdoch is one of the sleaziest people in the world. It's unfortunate that his days of controlling the media in the UK are almost over."

Woah. Why d'you think it's unfortunate? You want the UK's media to be run by morally bankrupt?

[PurushaDesa]

* I meant someone who IS morally bankrupt.

[mesaeddie]

Instead of saying that's alright sir that twit varney should have said "Thank You Sir May I have Another ?"

[garethmccall]

That guy went to school to be a journalist.

LOL.

[MrNodzilla]

Fucking Sir???? More balanced News by Fox.I wonder if Bill O'Reilly will grill him???

[Matryx]

@MrNodzilla heck yeah Bill will! With the hardest softball marshmallow creampuff fluff questions he can muster!

[yowowulu]

"No worries Mr Chairman. Now may I please bend over, grab my ankles and beg for your forgiveness. Please sir?"

[Thales880]

"No worries" "it's okay sir"... BULL CRAP!

The US has no real journalism

[HolyCity2012]

@Thales880 "no real journalism"? Are you kidding? You must not read much.

[Thales880]

@HolyCity2012 You must not read sources from outside the US. 

[xerbus9001]

Sieg Heil Mr Chairman!

[Johnnymoo]

He's lucky he didn't get force-choked right there on live tv.

[ScottishAtheist]

Sorry Sir please don't beat me.

[TrollBuster9090]

@ScottishAtheist

More like "Please don't get Roger Ailes to sit on my face!"

I haven't seen a "journalist" shit his pants that fast since Wolf Blitzer asked Dick Cheney about leading the party that opposes gay marriage while having a lesbian daughter, and Cheney said his question was "out of line." Pusillanimous insects....

[liftwaffe]

And there you go...

waffe

[nobbinobody]

that's alright sir

*parp*

[cmfluteguy]

Leave poor roopie poopie alone.

FOX isn't done destroying the LIE PIG li CON party yet.

I knew with his morals and intelligence that he could make that happen.

[leftofcollegestation]

Varney is a complete hack and tool.

[tejaspics]

LOL...moving right along....

[Nilbop]

Fox News: 0 Balls to their own boss.

[big4bluz]

Varney did all but get down on his knees to pleasure Murdoch. LOL

[numnunums]

whatever you say Mr Chairman

[ChannelFadge]

No worries Mr. Chairman. Im not going to press the issue. I'm not a real journalist, I have no integrity whatsover. Want me to suck your cock live on air too?

[sasha031]

@ChannelFadge ohhh is he in big trouble now, going to be a target of the emperor's wrath.

[oneirishpoet]

@ChannelFadge oh no, Rupert at least gives his little whore minions the chance to suck his tiny, wrinkled, flaccid dick OFF the air, but they have to swallow first!

[goamerica76]

@ChannelFadge Come on what do you expect the guy to say. This is his boss. Are you guys saying that this man should give up his job to make a point that every other journalist for any organization aside from Fox is currently making right now. Have you ever called out your boss on live television in front of millions of people?

[dirdbou]

@goamerica76 If he really cared about his profession, he would act like a REAL journalist and actually attempt to get information about the scandal from Murdoch. But we all know foxnews isn't a real news agency, they're a propaganda machine. They don't hire journalists.

[ChannelFadge]

@goamerica76 erm... yes I do expect him to say something. He is a news reporter, and this isn't china, the media should be able to say whatever they want without fear even if it is their boss.

[goamerica76]

@ChannelFadge So what kind of industry are you currently employed in? Would it be worth it for you to lose your job just to try to make a gotcha point that Murdoch isn't going to answer anyways? No this is not China, but also there is no constitutional guarantee that the owner can't fire an employee if said employee is using the owner's media as a personal mouthpiece for themselves. I didn't hear too much bitching on the left when MSNBC wasn't reporting that GE payed nothing in taxes last year.

[ChannelFadge]

@goamerica76 yep. would be totally worth losing my job if I was that guy. I would rather lose my job than look like a spineless puppet.

[goamerica76]

@ChannelFadge Well, why don't you get a journalism degree and then work all of your adult life in various media posts and then when you get to one of the top networks in the world why don't you throw all of that away for a cheap jab at the man who gave you a shot to follow your dreams. Wait, just say do you want fries with that.

[ChannelFadge]

@goamerica76 If I had worked all my life for a job in journalism, there would be no way I would go and work for fox anyway! Murdoch is an evil toothless old mummy, his papers are pure sleaze and anything that would shake his empire would be tottally worth being demoted to mcdonalds :)

[goamerica76]

@ChannelFadge On that point then, I will applaud your principled stand. One caveat though: it is much easier to take a principled stand when you have absolutely nothing to lose. Maybe some journalists are just conservative right wing people. Maybe their dream job is working at Fox and pushing that agenda. The guy is a pretty unbiased reporter at a biased news show. Good day sir.

[TheTokkin]

@ChannelFadge exactly!

[jackthelad101]

@ChannelFadge hahaha well said

[0910dc]

@ChannelFadge theres being a journalist and theres being a news reporter. i dont know mabye this guy is a journalist but i personally wouldnt class someone who reads the news to be a journalist in the sense that he goes out and finds stories. besides this is his job, he probably doesnt want to start an arguement on t.v but oh well just my opinion

[ChannelFadge]

@0910dc yeah he probably doesnt, but thats fox news for you! Look at Paxman on BBC Newsnight, he is just a reporter but he is outspoken when he can smell bullshit, even if its directed towards his bosses

[jimmatt2311]

@ChannelFadge um....that was his boss he was speaking to, he was brave to even mention it...

[bRizzle2009100]

@ChannelFadge Stuart Varney isn't a journalist. He's an anchor on the FOX Business Channel.

Plus, Murdoch is his boss. He had to keep in mind that there is a possibility that he might not have a job tomorrow if he did that.

[sparced]

I am sooo sorry Sir.

[MeoithTheSecond]

lol that employee of his was shaking in his boots, good old corruption at its worst.

[dogstar7]

Tell it to the FBI

[TrollBuster9090]

@dogstar7

Yeah, that's what he said to the Parliamentary Sargeant at Arms the other day. A pair of shiny hand cuffs said otherwise.

[AminWRX]

Wooooow