Murdoch and Clinton: An Unlikely Alliance

For those who say Fox News is "right wing"...

From the New York Times:

The situation rings familiar: A skilled politician with some fairly progressive social views hopes to make the leap to the United States Senate representing New York. The New York Post gives the candidacy approximately one New York second, and then pounces. Her candidacy is characterized as nakedly ambitious, her rationale deemed transparent and by the way, her husband is a lout and a crook.

Happily for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time around she can enjoy the searing narrative as a reader, not a target, because it is her potential opponent, Jeanine F. Pirro, who is currently impaled on the tabloid rotisserie. Last Tuesday, after Ms. Pirro made her intentions known, the paper published unflattering pictures and skeptical headlines, and reminded readers that Ms. Pirro's husband, Albert, had served prison time for tax fraud and had been found to have fathered a child out of wedlock.