Bolt’s ultimatum: I’ll quit if James Murdoch wins succession battle
Sky News Australia after dark star Andrew Bolt will quit the company should Rupert Murdoch and his eldest son Lachlan lose control of the family media empire to the more politically moderate James Murdoch.
The brothers have clashed over the company’s editorial slant in the past, particularly over the conservative Fox News channel in America, as well as James Murdoch’s criticism of the climate coverage in News Corp’s Australian newspapers.
“James could sack me if he did take over, but he wouldn’t need to. I wouldn’t be the only one who wouldn’t work for him,” Bolt said during his Sky News show on Thursday evening, responding to a report published by The New York Times this week, detailing a legal battle for control of the Murdoch family’s assets.
“It’s a values’ thing. A freedom thing. I don’t know if he gets that.”
I don’t know if Convicted Racist Andrew Bolt, a man in no position to snipe at other people about “values”, gets how few people will actually care if he does this. As for James Murdoch, I don’t really know anything about him, though his Wiki page suggests… not great things (I mean, he’s one of THOSE Murdochs; is there anyone in that family who’s free of that taint?). But the current Murdoch family dispute apparently relates to the old bugger trying to change the details of the family trust that controls the Murdoch family’s media holdings by shutting the other kids out of it and leaving everything to Lachlan. The likelhood of this succeeding is apparently minimal, however, which I presume is why C.R.A.B. is making this big “look at me daddy” display of loyalty to the old cunt, he wants to make sure Rupert knows he’s always have one of his chief propagandists backing him up… so I’m sure James is at least a bit trash but I still kind of hope he does prevail in this battle, if only cos I want to see Bolt stick to his promise. And James will do fine without him, too, cos there are unfortunately a lot more where he came from…
