Rupert Murdoch Spending His Golden Years Making His Children Hate Him

Could Fox News one day become less conservative? Theoretically, sure. The New York Post used to be a liberal rag, did it not?

Would knowing his empire was trending in a less conservative direction be the funniest fucking thing to happen to 93-year-old Rupert Murdoch before he goes to his grave? God yes. Let us all pray to the deity of our choice that this happens. Let us all pray that in his final hours, as he rests in a hospital bed, attended to by the finest doctors and nurses all his blood money can buy, that one of his less-conservative children leans down and whispers in his ear something to the effect of We’re firing Watters and Ingraham and taking Fox in a liberal direction like Sophie Marceau whispering to Richard McGoohan that she is pregnant with Mel Gibson’s child as the dying old man’s eyes fill with stunned agony at the end of Braveheart. That would be neat.

Weirdly, this scenario is not completely out of the realm of possibility, thanks to a fight the Murdochs have been embroiled in over the family trust that divides control of the company amongst Rupert’s four older children. The fight pitted Rupert and wingnut son Lachlan, who runs the empire with his father, against Lachlan’s sisters Prudence and Elizabeth, and his brother James.

Rupert would like Lachlan to continue running the empire after his death. But because Lachlan’s three siblings have an equal share of the trust, and also because they are not raging nutters, Rupert and Lachlan fear that after the old man dies, the latter’s siblings could team up and make Fox News less conservative. But then America and the rest of the world would be better off, and Rupert Murdoch has not spent 93 years and counting being an evil little garden gnome to let that happen.

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