Murdoch Will Fete Clinton
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox News and other conservative news outlets have been skewering Hillary Rodham Clinton for years, will be the host of a summer fundraiser for the New York senator, mystifying some observers and enraging others.
Especially incensed are liberal activists, who for months have criticized Clinton for a perceived shift to the right 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 what Clinton has called the “vast right-wing conspiracy.”
For the record:
12:00 a.m. May 18, 2006 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday May 18, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 3 inches; 122 words Type of Material: Correction
Murdoch fundraiser for Sen. Clinton: An article in Saturday’s Section A about media mogul Rupert Murdoch holding a summer fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said that neither had commented about the fundraiser since it was reported by the Financial Times on May 8. In fact, Murdoch said on a media conference call that the fundraiser was “no big deal.” And, in an interview on the Fox News network, he said Clinton was going to win reelection easily and that “I think she’s been a good senator.” Clinton was quoted by the Associated Press as saying of the fundraiser, “I think this is about New York. It’s about the kind of job that I’m doing as a senator from New York.”
Liberal blogger David Sirota complained, “The brazenness ... is almost too much to stomach.”
Neither Clinton nor Murdoch have commented about the fundraiser since it was first reported by the Financial Times on Monday.
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