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I really didn't need another reason to disdain Fox-News
But they gave me one anyway

By Walter Brooks

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According to the 2007 Forbes 400, Murdoch is the 33rd wealthiest American, with a net worth of $8.8 billion. He paid off his first wife for $1.2 billion to marry Wendi Deng, 38 years his junior. Why won't he pay me the $186 he owes me?
Bill Orally is reason enough, and those floozies with the skirts half-way up to their crotches to lure the goons who still move their lips when they read are another, but I really assumed that Rupert Murdoch's minions paid their bills on time.

But they don't.

It's going on to three months since I appeared on a "Fix-News" program as an invited guest.  The Hannity program on Sunday night asked me to give up eight hours of my time to go to Boston and be interviewed promising to at least feed me and my three associates dinner while we waited for several hours for the taping in their Newton studios.

They still haven't paid for my dinner even after being billed three times and promising to send a check three times as well.

I guess we can assume they pay the same attention to the details of the news they broadcast.

See the Fox-TV story here.  See the Fox floozies below.

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06/10/08 @ 2:28 pm
Danny S. [Member] writes:
Walter, I know where Sean lives. Want me to go put the 'touch' on him for you? A little 'leaning' goes a long way. LMAO
06/10/08 @ 2:57 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
WB...maybe they are trying to tell you something regarding the value of your appearance.

The post was inaccurate. And they can spot photoshop when they see it.
06/10/08 @ 5:35 pm
marcopolo [Member] writes:
Walter,
I am a man who solves problems...simply right a letter to the Cape Cod Times, or even the Boston Herlad explaining how you were never paid! OOPs...he owns them both, my mistake!
06/10/08 @ 5:35 pm
marcopolo [Member] writes:
write a letter
06/10/08 @ 5:45 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
marco...I have it on good authority that Ted K. had the appropriation killed on Capitol Hill.
06/11/08 @ 8:44 am
Peter M [Member] writes:
Walter, why don't you file a small claim in the Orleans District Court?

That will get you on the front page of the Boston Globe!
06/11/08 @ 10:37 am
excalibur [Member] writes:
I hope that the advent of "citizen journalism" isn't going to set us back to an era when publishers used the pages of their publications to settle personal scores.
06/11/08 @ 1:46 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
I told you not to go.
06/12/08 @ 11:36 am
Solon [Member] writes:
Walter, what do you have against Fox floozies, other than when they open their mouths to speak any sex appeal they may have had goes out the window?

Now my friend, Bill Orally, is another story. I looked forward to watching him every night without fail. Now I think he is the most egotistical bloviating bloviator of all.

Hmmm. Do I sense a blog coming? A little more absinthe, and I shall begin.
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