Volume 4: White Devil Chapter 281 Bait
"Earl Rush? Your black man handpicked by BT?" Pete Bean asked.
He knew some of Tommy's personnel arrangements, so he immediately thought of the black lawyer who was now gathering support from grassroots black people in Los Angeles.
Tommy simply shook his head: "No, Earl is my good friend, I will not ruin his bright future at this moment, I have higher expectations for him."
"So, Jeff Lavine?" Pete threw out another name. Although Tommy went on vacation, his vacation was not simple. He knew what Tommy was planning. Since it was not time to throw out Earl Rush, it seemed that the only one Tommy could throw out was the fool in Miami who believed in the flat earth.
"The answer is not that hard to guess, right? Jeff is not suitable for that position. Ever since he took out the shot put at the inauguration ceremony, he has been questioned every day about whether he has a problem with his brain, and people keep asking him to take IQ tests. That position is extremely painful for him. I think he should be rescued from the pain. I asked David to prepare a better job for him, the head of the Miami Police Department Volunteer Service Team. If he is willing, he can bring a group of veterans to help the police catch illegal Cubans every day. But it's not him. He just took the opportunity to retire. I need a real Democratic politician. Whoever can't help but stand up, I will deal with him. I just hope that the two staunch Democrats can understand my difficulties." Tommy did not deny it this time, but he still explained that he needed a real politician to be the sacrifice:
"Bill and Al said they would try their best to help me pick out the idiots. I would choose the stupidest one. As for Jeff, I didn't include him in my selection. After all, if he ran for election, no one could beat him. Besides, I sold his position to the ex-wife of Mr. David Kennedy, the brother-in-law of Mr. Shriver, in exchange for Martin to receive an employee salary in Rona's congressman's office. At the same time, Bill Lynch, the black genius who funded the acquisition of Martin's campaign company, will serve as Rona's chief of staff."
Shriver tapped his knuckles on the tabletop, ignoring the conversation between the two men. He kept his eyes on the muted TV screen until Tommy and Pete finished talking. Then he looked at Tommy and said slowly, " Did you see how the United States taught Japan a lesson, Tommy? This method is never out of date."
"I think so too. So, my VOX can be said to be established for Murdoch. Your Excellency, the only work of several VOX news stations in the UK since their establishment is for him." Tommy looked at Shriver and nodded seriously: "I am ready."
Shriver observed Tommy's expression, and finally nodded, spreading his hands and smiling at Pete Bean, "Then why are we still sitting here talking? Let the young people have a go. Pete, before I go back to New York, take me to taste the treasures of your private winery in Los Angeles."
After getting the approval of the two old men, BT TV and VOX News began to increase the broadcast of programs that were negative about Japan, and shifted from promoting the country to publicizing the terrorist activities that the Japanese Red Army had done internationally, shifting public opinion from targeting China and Japan to negative reports on international communism, and then promoting the spiritual brainwashing of communism and the pervasiveness of the Soviet KGB. Fortunately, in order to fight against the Soviet Union, the United States shot a lot of pseudo-realistic and real brainwashing documentaries that discredited communism and the Soviet Union. Tommy only needed to dig out those documentaries and broadcast them.
After talking about the brainwashing and infiltration of communism on the Western people, Tommy's VOX News Network broadcast an interview program, mainly asking the interviewees to talk about their personal experiences of witnessing the pervasiveness of communism in Western countries. In the program, Robert Hillman, a tenured professor of political science at Worcester College, University of Oxford, said that the infiltration and brainwashing of communism on British campuses were very serious at that time. He still remembered a student named Rupert Murdoch, who placed busts of Stalin and Lenin on his desk in the dormitory, criticized the unbearable British political system at a school debate, and won a nickname in the college, Red Devil Rupert.
The program also showed photos of Rupert's dormitory. Although there was no bust of Stalin, in the photo of Rupert and his roommates, a bust of Lenin could be clearly seen on the desk in the corner.
The three major television networks, CBS, ABC, NBC and Turner's CNN almost immediately smelled the blood and arranged their own news commentary programs to comment on the interviews that often lasted less than three minutes. Some commentators joked that if Murdoch was a communist, then the United States should have another round of McCarthyism purges.
Of course, Murdoch reacted very quickly. Maurice Schoenfeld, the head of VOX TV Network, called Tommy the day after the show was broadcast and said that someone from News Corporation’s public relations department called him and hoped that Murdoch could sit down and have a chat after returning from the UK.
Tommy smiled and said, "The Murdoch Group has accumulated $7 billion in financial debt due to its large-scale leveraged buyouts in recent years, a large portion of which is short-term debt that has not been converted to long-term. We have been waiting for so long for one-third of his short-term debt to mature. Several major TV networks have rushed in to sit down for dinner, not to sit down and chat with him."
"What reason do you want me to find to humiliate them?" Schoenfeld was the president of VOX hired by Tommy's angel investor Benjamin Rosen. He was a German Jew who previously founded the American Independent Television News Association, which provided aggregated news reports to all independent television stations in the United States. The reason why Wolf Tucker, who built VOX, gave up his position without complaint was not only because Tommy promised to let him serve as the head of the financial news network, but also because of the Jewish guy's connections and abilities.
Tommy grinned and said, "You can find any excuse. For example, I can't stand seeing Australian country people. I don't know why, but when I see Australian country people, I feel uncomfortable down there. I always feel like I might be infected with syphilis."
After hanging up the phone, Tommy dialed Susan's number: "The mixed-race black girl you arranged to file a lawsuit before, should she lose the first round due to insufficient evidence?"
"Yes." Susan said, "It was a complete loss. In order to ensure the loss, many witnesses and evidence were not released at Delia's suggestion."
Tommy said with satisfaction, "Very good. Let that black girl act her best, because this is the highlight of her life. I want everyone to know that an American black star was raped by an Australian film company executive, but she had no choice but to lose the case. Delia and you accompanying her in the appeal will be followed and reported throughout the process."
In the following days, VOX TV broadcast the documentary "Thirteen Months Later" produced by VOX's British branch. The documentary visited and filmed typical representatives of the 6,000 printing union members who failed in the 1986 Wapping strike in the UK and eventually lost their jobs, restoring their tragic experiences in 1986.
The general content of the documentary is that Murdoch hopes to build a new printing plant in Wapping, London, to introduce more advanced computer platemaking and printing technology for his newspapers, The Sun and News of the World, to improve printing efficiency. However, once the new factory is completed, the previous traditional printing workers will be laid off on a large scale, with approximately 6,000 people to be laid off. Therefore, before the new factory is completed, the most important thing is not to leak the news, so as to prevent the printing union from knowing in advance and causing trouble, thereby blocking the construction of the new factory.
So Murdoch came up with a good idea. He took the initiative to contact the printing union and said that the company was going to establish a new newspaper called "London Post" and that the market prospects were very good. For this purpose, a new printing plant would be built in Wapping, which would add a lot of printing jobs after completion.
The British Typographical Union may have had such an impressive record over the past century, or its leaders may have been bribed by Murdoch in advance. In short, it did not realize that there were capitalists who dared to deceive them so blatantly, so it believed it to be true. As a result, until the new factory was completed and put into production, the workers did not get the opportunity to work there. They only got a cruel truth: there was no new newspaper, the London Post, that Murdoch promised. You have been deceived.
The day after the Wapping printing factory was completed, The Sun moved its headquarters there. On the third day, Murdoch announced large-scale layoffs. The printing union immediately began a strike and demonstration. However, they did not understand that times had changed. This was already the computer age. The workers' naive idea that if they went on strike, the newspapers would not be sold on time was completely shattered. As early as when the factory was being built, Murdoch had already trained a group of newcomers who had not joined the printing union, teaching those employees how to use computers for typesetting and printing.
Moreover, when the striking workers desperately tried to use a human wall to block the newspaper distribution trucks from leaving the factory, Murdoch's political ally in the UK, Mrs. Thatcher, mobilized most of the police and army in London to drive away the striking workers, and even bloodshed occurred. All of this had almost no chance of being reported in the newspapers in the UK, because almost all the channels for voicing were controlled by Murdoch. In the end, the printing union could only humiliatingly announce that the strike that had lasted for thirteen months had completely failed, and six thousand printing workers finally accepted the cruel fate of being laid off.
If the major television networks and newspapers had previously used a joking tone when commenting on Murdoch's belief in communism during his college years, then after the broadcast of this documentary filmed by VOX Television at no cost during its visit to the UK, the news commentary immediately became serious, because this was a question so serious that people could not help but think about it. If Murdoch, an Australian, could deceive British unions, then why couldn't he deceive American unions?
What's even more frightening is that the documentary uses real data to tell the audience that during the thirteen-month-long Wapping strike in the UK, there were very few reports about the strike in British newspapers. The BBC News may have minimized related reports at the behest of certain bigwigs, and there was even less video footage of the strike site. This is obviously Murdoch's power. He controls the British media and can teach the British media when to shut up. So, if this Australian is allowed to grow and develop in the United States, will he teach the American media to shut up as well?
A series of reports from VOX News Network made even the slowest people realize that Tommy was looking for trouble with Murdoch. But just when everyone thought Tommy would throw out more shocking information, the situation suddenly changed. BT TV began to broadcast the news that Hollywood black actress Tricia O'Neill sued executives of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation for sexually assaulting her, but ultimately lost the case due to insufficient evidence.
To be honest, even black audiences were a little confused when they heard the name of this actress. Of course, Tommy could understand everyone's confusion. After all, this actress did not have any representative works. She just relied on her model figure and exaggerated expressions developed from Broadway musicals to play the role of an atmosphere actor with few roles in various TV series and movies.
But this is the best option Susan can find. After all, this woman was really hurt by people from 20th Century Fox Film Company, and she was willing to come forward and expose that past only after Susan promised her a long-term contract for a self-produced TV series with BT TV.
Seeing that Tommy suddenly changed from biting News Corporation to attacking 20th Century Fox, CNN's Turner couldn't help but call and ask if Tommy was high on drugs to do such a stupid thing.
Because although 20th Century Fox is Murdoch's industry, it is completely different from News Corporation. Even if Tommy is bitten by that woman harder, and even if it is finally proved that he has suffered harm, the result will be that the Fox executive will be fired and bear the consequences personally. Murdoch and News Corporation will not be hurt. He hopes that Tommy will wake up soon and focus on attacking Murdoch. He is willing to let CNN broadcast the documentary Tommy shot for Murdoch 24 hours a day.
Tommy ignored Turner's sincere advice, and as this insignificant harassment case was exposed, female lawyer Delia Keys announced that she would provide free legal assistance to Tricia O'Neill, and well-known American female lawyer Hillary Clinton also called on women to bravely stand up and expose this behavior.
One, two, three. With the help of TV networks, the female artists under Susan also began to break their silence and bravely told in front of the camera about the painful experiences they had encountered in exchange for the opportunity to work in Hollywood. However, they did not blame other Hollywood companies, but simply disclosed their experiences of harassment or innuendo from senior executives of Fox Film Corporation to expand the influence of this losing case.
Just when old Turner felt that Tommy had turned a good hand into shit, successfully diverting the American people's attention from Murdoch to Hollywood gossip and helping Murdoch to solve his problems, Tommy made another move. This time, his two TV networks broadcast some video materials targeting Murdoch and Fox Film Corporation to domestic and foreign audiences who had already received a lot of negative communist propaganda. The content came from Chinese TV stations and Chinese newspaper news.
To sum it up in one sentence, Murdoch had visited China before and received a high-level reception. During his visit, Murdoch donated the copyrights of hundreds of classic Fox Film Corporation's films to Chinese TV stations free of charge. According to the current price that American TV stations want to buy the license to broadcast classic movies, the total value of the licenses for these classic movies is as high as hundreds of millions of dollars.
The host commented in front of the camera: "Americans who want to watch the classic movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back need to pay Murdoch, but the Chinese, who are thousands of miles away and regard the United States as their enemy, can enjoy his generosity for free. Mr. Murdoch can certainly support communism, that is his freedom, but the problem is that he cannot give American things to our enemies for free. At least before donating, he should ask the director, actors and other staff whether they are willing to see their works sent to those places. This is not Australia, this is not Britain, this is America, Mr. Murdoch."
After getting this explosive news, Turner, who has always been looking for opportunities to attack Murdoch, simply sat in front of the CNN camera as a commentator, with an unstoppable smile of gloating:
"The Australian named Rupert Murdoch is definitely a communist. He gave classic American movies to China for free. The whole world knows that the United States and China are now at loggerheads. The situation is so serious that World War III may break out at any time. What Murdoch is doing now is like giving Marilyn Monroe's artistic photos to the enemy's soldiers for free before the war to boost their morale!"
"And when he gave those movies away, did he pay extra money to those film practitioners? No! So the production process of this Australian bastard's film company is to fuck our beautiful American actresses, use their pretty faces to sell movies and make money from Americans, and finally give the works to communist countries for free, showing off to people in those countries how he humiliated our actresses and made our money! Fuck you, Red Devil Rupert! Do you fucking think that America is your hometown Australia, and you can do whatever you want? Go back to the Soviet Union, you damn KGB spy!"
Watching the vulgar words of Old Turner in the CNN news commentary on TV, Tommy adjusted his sitting position comfortably: "The bait has been put down, and it's time to wait for the fish to take the bait."
