Admiral Murdoch: Not A Fit Person

What draining the Swamp of Murdoch has revealed

Last year as the details of the Murdoch criminal empire were being unearthed in a formal British government investigation, we wrote:

While standard evolutionary theory has it that humans descended from warm blooded mammals, the predatory acts of the world’s most powerful media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, suggests that somewhere along the way a mutant strain of humanity reverted to behavior more characteristic of its cold blooded ancestors further back on the evolutionary tree. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the fetid swampland of British tabloid journalism, where Murdoch reigns as the biggest croc on the block.

Well, that investigation has just filed its final report.  From HuffPo:

A parliamentary committee has judged that Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run a major international company such as News Corp. due to his handling of the phone hacking scandal…

The committee wrote that Murdoch “turned a blind eye and exhibited willful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications,” and concluded that he “is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company.”

The report is the culmination of years of investigation since the phone hacking crisis first broke in 2009. Since then, the scandal has caught everyone from journalists to police to politicians in its net, and cost Murdoch hundreds of millions of dollars.

Yet to be decided is how the entire House of Commons will vote on the committee’s findings. At the very least, the civil litigation barristers will have a field day combing through the reams of evidence that over three years of intense investigation has produced. Can you spell shareholder lawsuits?

As demands for Rupert’s resignation reach a fever pitch, it remains to be seen whether one the world’s most powerful and feared man will voluntarily go down with his ship. Given the level of denial he’s demonstrated to date, not to mention the company he keeps, we kind of doubt it.  But we’ll be mannin’ the crow’s nest, our eyes fixed firmly on the horizon, waiting to see if his flagship company, News Corp. becomes New Corpse, his rotting sack of bones lashed firmly to its mast.

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