RUPERT MURDOCH & THE IRAQ WAR

Most of us know that FOX News acted as a cheerleader for the Iraq War but most don't know that the order to promote the war camefrom the top of the Murdoch empire:

267. Mr Campbell also recorded that Mr Blair had taken a telephone call on 11 March from Mr Rupert Murdoch “who was pressing on timings, saying how News International would support us, etc”.89 Mr Campbell and Mr Powell “felt it was prompted by Washington, and another example of their over-crude diplomacy. Murdoch was pushing all the Republican buttons, how the longer we waited, the harder it got.”

SOURCE: Report of the Chilcot Inquiry, section 3.8

DOUBLING-DOWN ON FAILURE

Donald Trump can't handle trying to be normal so he's hired 2 wackos to run his campaign and demoted Manafort:

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is bringing two new managers to the top of his campaign in a bid to recover ground he has lost in recent weeks.Stephen Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News LLC, an outspoken Trump supporter and a former Goldman Sachs banker, will assume the new position of campaign chief executive. At the same time, Mr. Trump also is promoting Kellyanne Conway, a veteran GOP pollster and strategist, to become campaign manager. Ms. Conway has been a campaign adviser for several weeks.

Robert Costa has some good insider info in his article about this staff reorganization.