"That said, it’s possible that at some point in the war as a TEC 5 he commanded a tank if the unit was strapped for leaders," Kessler added, "and he was deemed capable enough by his superiors." Tuberville would have needed to be a sergeant to be a tank commander. "According to a 1944 Army memo, TEC 5 jobs were limited to armorer, cook, tank driver, light truck driver or tank mechanic. "Charles Tuberville’s tombstone lists his highest rank as 'TEC 5' or technician fifth grade, an Army rank at the time that indicated technical skills but not combat leadership," Kessler wrote. The Pentagon warns that Tuberville's holds are endangering military readiness because 650 general and flag officers will require Senate confirmation at the end of this year, but ironically, his inaccurate claims about his father promoted him to tank commander. "An examination of army histories, newspaper reports and other materials calls into question many of the claims put forth by Tuberville, who sits on both the Senate Armed Services and Veterans’ Affairs committees and is now in a high-profile battle with the Biden administration over a Defense Department policy offering time off and travel reimbursement to service members who need to go out of state for abortions," wrote Post columnist Glenn Kessler. That fact alone further imperils what has become America’s fragile democracy."īut a Washington Post fact checker found some false elements in the senator's account. And there doesn’t seem to be any way that will change if the Murdochs maintain their absolute power and absolute control. "That’s dangerous under any circumstances, but it’s especially troubling at a national news organization, such as Fox, where disinformation and lies, apparently, are the coin of the realm. "Rupert Murdoch has had absolute power at both Fox and News Corp for far too long," Cohan wrote. Murdoch may be 92 years old, but his control of Fox and other media entities remains absolute. Smartmatic, or even the recently filed shareholder lawsuit against Fox, could end up pressuring Fox, and indirectly News Corp, to scrap their dual-class stock structures." "If it emerges victorious in its lawsuit, it could insist, as part of any settlement, on governance changes at Fox or even demand that the CEO succession process include candidates outside the Murdoch family. Murdoch may lie with Smartmatic," wrote Cohan. When dual classes of stock are involved, a family’s voting power often far outstrips its economic ownership, leading to financially foolish, and even bizarre, behavior."ĪLSO IN THE NEWS: Former DOJ official: Indictment for Trump's alleged election crimes will be a much bigger deal than the docs scandalĪmerican corporations turned to professional management a century ago to insulate shareholders from dynastic owners, and the Smartmatic defamation suit may finally break Murdoch's grip on the conservative media empire he controls. "To a lesser degree, I see problems occurring at companies such as Comcast (controlled by the Roberts family) and Paramount Global (controlled by Shari Redstone), among others. "The drama we’re watching play out at the Fox Corporation is an extreme example of how companies with a controlling shareholder can suffer - the stock is down almost 18 percent in the past five years - but it isn’t the only one," wrote columnist William D. The Fox News boss controls his empire through ownership of a special class of stock that gives him an outsized voting stake in the Fox Corporation and News Corp., and his leadership has survived recent challenges from so-called Class B shareholders, but a defamation lawsuit could finally topple him, reported the New York Times. Rupert Murdoch's fate is in the hand of voting machine company Smartmatic after paying out a whopping $787.5 million settlement to Dominion Voting Systems.
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