Giuliani: The Candidate of the FOX News Channel

Ruppert Murdoch is becoming ever more powerful, especially with apparent acquisition of the Wall St. Journal. We know about his close ties to Tony Blair. The FOX news channel's pro-Republican bias is well established, not withstanding their protests to the contrary. So it shouldn't be surprising that the Republican presidential front runner has ties to the fellow who runs that network. Keep in mind, Bush would not have committed all his his abuses of power without the help of FOX:

Mr. Ailes was the media consultant to Mr. Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign in 1989. Mr. Giuliani, as mayor, officiated at Mr. Ailes’s wedding and intervened on his behalf when Mr. Ailes’s company, Fox News Channel, was blocked from securing a cable station in the city.

This year, they were tablemates at the White House correspondents dinner, which Mr. Giuliani attended as a guest of Fox’s parent company, the News Corporation.

Now these allies and friends find themselves on largely uncharted political turf. Mr. Giuliani, 63, is a leading Republican candidate for president. Mr. Ailes, 67, is head of Fox News, the pre-eminent media outlet for likely voters in a Republican primary.

Giuliani's relationship with Ailes might explain why the former Mayor is the front runner. We ought to be very concerned. Do we really want a foreign media empire deciding who becomes President of the United States?:

Whether their friendship would ever affect coverage — Fox insists that it has not and will not — it is nonetheless the sort of relationship that other campaigns have noted and are watching, though none wanted to speak publicly for fear of offending the station.

So far this year, one political journal found, Mr. Giuliani has logged more time on Fox interview programs than any other candidate. Most of the time has been spent with Sean Hannity, an acknowledged admirer of the former mayor, according to the data compiled by the journal, known as The Hotline.