Saudi Prince Is FOX Network’s 2nd Largest Share Holder

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal now owns a 7 percent stake in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, making him the company’s largest shareholder outside of Murdoch’s own family.

Alwaleed is the same Saudi prince who regularly makes donations to the families of terrorist suicide bombers… and made headlines right after 9/11 when he personally went to Ground Zero and offered New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani a $10 million check for the relief efforts.

But Alwaleed could not keep his mouth shut. He released a bizarre statement that blamed the attacks – not on the 15 airline hijackers from Saudi Arabia – but on the United States’ support of Israel.

Giuliani promptly returned the prince’s donation, gaining him praise from Fox News at the time for doing so.

Frank Gaffney, a former Reagan appointee, recently wrote:

“Even more troubling than having a Saudi spinmeister, even a lousy one, at the decision-making table of America’s most successful, and conservative, television network is another aspect of Al-Waleed’s deal with Mr. Murdoch. The Australian entrepreneur has reportedly also given the prince the unfiltered ability to broadcast Saudi-produced materials directly into America on Murdoch’s satellite. Here’s how that part of the deal will evidently work: Prince Al-Waleed’s Rotana Audio Visual Company, which operates TV channels in the Middle East, has signed a deal with DirecTV, the TV-satellite firm controlled by News Corp. As a result, it would seem Rotana will be able to beam its programs into U.S. cable boxes without interference from federal regulators, or anybody else…What passes for entertainment in Saudi Arabia mostly looks like jihadist agitprop to the rest of us. Rotana has a huge library of movies, music and television programs. Such programming has to also include vicious anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-American incitement. That is, after all, the only kind of material the Wahhabi religious censors approve for production and broadcast in Saudi Arabia. Could that be what the prince has in mind for DirecTV subscribers?”

Now what I want to know… is why we don’t see any of this ‘news’ on Glenn Beck’s infamous blackboards??

Nada.

Hush hush.

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