posted May 12, 2006 07:05 PM            

Especially incensed are liberal activists, who for months have decried what's seen as a shift to a right on Clinton's part as the Democrat contemplates a run for president in 2008. They are stunned that she is associating with a man viewed as a cornerstone of the "vast right-wing conspiracy," the term Clinton herself coined.

"Hillary, help us. Who the hell are you?" thundered Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen.

Liberal blogger David Sirota complained: "The brazenness of this move is almost too much to stomach."

Neither Clinton nor Murdoch have had much to say about the fundraiser since it was first reported this week by The Financial Times.

"I think this is about New York. It's about the kind of job that I'm doing as a senator from New York," Clinton said Friday.

Murdoch, for his part, dismissed the event as "no big deal."

"We think that she has been effective on state issues and local issues here in New York," Murdoch said on a News Corp. earnings call.

The Clinton-Murdoch alliance is not entirely new. The two have been moving toward a detente since 2000, when she won her Senate seat after a campaign that included a series of not-so-flattering Clinton headlines in another Murdoch property, the New York Post. The Post even ran a pleading headline, "Don't Run!" before Clinton formally joined the race.

Murdoch also has developed a relationship with former President Clinton, a prime target of criticism from Fox and the New York Post during his presidency. Murdoch participated in a conference of the Clinton Global Initiative last fall, and the former president is scheduled to address a gathering of News Corp. executives in California later this year.

Murdoch, whose $60 billion empire is a major presence in New York, is more shrewd businessman than ideologue, and friendly relations with a powerful New York senator are in his best interest. Murdoch also organized a fundraiser for New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, during his re-election campaign in 2004.

But Clinton's motive for accepting a Murdoch-sponsored fundraiser is not quite as clear. She faces minimal opposition in her Senate race — something Murdoch acknowledged this week in an interview on Fox News. And with at least $20 million in her campaign account — a figure that dwarfs that of all her potential rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination — Clinton doesn't really need the money.

But Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said the arrangement suits Clinton and Murdoch equally well.

"She's reaching out to a guy who's on the right side of the spectrum, and she needs some friends there," Carroll said.

And Murdoch?

posted May 15, 2006 04:55 PM              

THEY ARE ALL ONE!

posted May 15, 2006 07:27 PM              

They have always been on the 'SAME SIDE' but we as 'mind controlled' sheeple are fed the old spin that there ARE Democrats and Republicans - left/right - liberal/conservative - to make it look like we are divided...

Remember DIVIDED WE FALL!

Here is the list (in order) of presidents who are well aware of, and fully participate in the coming NWO....who's aim is to enslave the poor(non-wealthy), and snuff out the
'feeders.' (to put is simply)

Sound far out? and wild?

You ain't heard nothin' yet!

Here they are...in all their glory....(note Jimmy Carter who is a decent, moral, and idealistic man, is missing from this list)....

Ford
Reagan
Bush Sr.
Clinton
Bush Jr.
Ms. Rodham Clinton

I'm not sure about Nixon and Johnson....but I know JFK also was NOT part of the NWO 'puppet presidents' who are working to make drastic unpleasant changes for America.