Media Matters, the George Soros-funded attack machine directed against Fox News and other conservative media, is trying to discredit Fox News’ reporting on the Ground Zero mosque. Its latest salvo is to paint Fox News as hypocritical for partnering with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (Fox News-parent company News Corp.’s second-largest shareholder with holdings of 7 percent) while the network blasts the funding ties of the Saudi Prince and other foreign Islamists to the Ground Zero mosque’s Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.
You know what? I agree that there may well be some hypocrisy at the News Corp. parent company level. But all that Media Matters and friends have proven is the independence of Fox News’ reporters and commentators. Rupert Murdoch has apparently not sought to suppress the broadcasting of their investigations and opinions even when potentially embarrassing to the parent company’s second largest shareholder.
Indeed, one progressive blogger proved this very point without meaning to, when he talked about the New York Post’s linkage of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal to Rauf:
Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post reported last May, the Kingdom Foundation, al-Waleed’s personal charity, has donated a total of $305,000 to Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow, a leadership and networking project sponsored jointly by two of Rauf’s organizations, the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative.
Moreover, News Corp.’s funding is out in the open. The Saudi prince’s investment in News Corp. is public, along with his company’s investments in such businesses as Citibank, the Four Seasons hotel chain and the Fairmont Hotel chain. The sponsors of the Ground Zero mosque, by contrast, appear to have something to hide.
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