Murdoch Hits Another Hurdle

          Clive Goodman, a reporter at the News Of The World, wrote a letter to the British parliament in 2007 claiming that the hacking was widespread at the paper, and actually encouraged by top journalists.  So much for it being a few bad apples (sound familiar?).  I wonder if either Murdoch will have the moral courage to step down and accept responsibility for the disgusting tactics they approved of.  For some reason I have my doubts.

           We had massive financial deception in our recent economic crisis, we had BP and Massey energy both skirting regulations and killing people in the process.  For all the right likes to talk about personal responsibility, the right have been noticably absent when it comes to forcing these companies to take responsibilities for their actions by actually proposing LESS regulation that we currently have.  The intellectual dishonesty is disgusting and the lack of moral courage is outrageous.  There is direct evidence that regulations are needed, and the right and the Tea Party continues to peddle the debunked ideology that regulations are not needed.  The lack of moral courage by those on the right is telling, with a great example being summed up by Joe Barton from Texas, when he apologized to the CEO of BP, Tony Hayward, for the "shakedown" by the White House, after the oil had started spewing into the ocean due to BP's irresponsible actions.  And this seems to have carried over to the man who runs the biggest right-wing propaganda machine in the United States.  Perhaps the real revolution America needs is a moral one, not a pseudo Tea Party that lives in fantasy land and denies default would actually hurt the United States.