Discussion: Fox Corp. Emerges As Standalone Company, Names Paul Ryan To Board

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I’ll bet you $20 the actual kitchen staff had to re-scrub the pot to get it properly cleaned once he was done with his photo-op.

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Ayn Rand had her own grift(s) going. She would applaud.

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Fox Corp. Emerges As Standalone Company, Names Paul Ryan To Board

I was a lot of shit to suck, but it was well worth it I guess…

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True that board members who have the requisite expertise for strategic planning are elected by the shareholders. Front men like Ryan are hired and given a title to add prestige. Kind of like being one of the myriad Vice Presidents of a bank.

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This is the caliber of leadership I would wish for them to have.

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I hope he decides to do their balance sheets for them. They’ll be bankrupt in a month…

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Now that Disney is gone Ryan’s magic asterisks won’t have access to the pixie dust necessary to make his budgets balance.

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Hopefully that means boycotts of Fox personnel will be even more effective now that Disney owns what used to be the most profitable portion of Murdoch’s operations in the US.

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The first time I saw the story in which Ryan talked about his secretary’s joy at getting some extra change in her paycheck I thought it must have come from the Onion - then I realized he was gauging all of the “little people” through his interactions with the toadies that have surrounded him his entire life.

Paul Ryan should get a pie in his face every day for the rest of his life. I hope he is personally bankrupted by a ravaging disease. He is a grown man with an adolescent brain that takes Ayn Rand seriously - for that alone he should never be allowed to work or have influence over real people’s lives.

But of course, he is just barely started on the reward gravy train that is going to make him rich beyond even his dreams.

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Two Dirt Bags that belong together. May they both fail.

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I mean, really, was there any other choice? A match made in hades…

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Then he can have his pie and eat it, too!

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“Mr. Paul D. Ryan served as the 54th Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives from 2015 to 2019, in which capacity he spearheaded
efforts to revise the federal tax code, rebuild the national defense,
expand domestic energy production, combat the opioid epidemic, and
reform the criminal justice system,” the company said in a press
release.

“…all of which provided FOX News with numerous opportunities to scare Elderly White Americans for the benefit of our ratings and advertisers. It is with sincere gratitude for a job well done that we appoint Mr. Ryan to our board.”

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the joke was that the kitchen was closed and the pots were already clean - true

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waste of pie

it would hurt him a lot more if someone gave a pie to a poor person every day

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So is Paul Ryan taking the board position once held for years by McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao?

Pretty amazing that Fox plays outside the laws of “media” companies…able to be a Party propaganda machine and bain washing Americans who Republicans are able to easily exploit and at the negative consequence of our nation being a fake Democracy!

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Which title will they use? Boardmember or Minister of Propaganda?

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I’m thinking more of a fresh cow pie.

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Empty suits gotta have someplace to hang.

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And thus his behavior toward Trump is explained