Keystone XL Pipeline Opposition Gets an Unlikely Ally: Rupert
Freakin' Murdoch  Categories: Politics  Yeah, you read that
right. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and The
Wall Street Journal, whose cable news empire has been almost
solely responsible for crafting Republican talking points, came
out against the proposed Keystone XL on Twitter.  This is, of
course, a remarkable position for Murdoch to take -- and one the
empty-eyed blondes on Fox News will no doubt assiduously avoid
mentioning -- not least because the pipeline, a nearly
2,000-mile long conduit to the Texas Gulf Coast for Canadian tar
sands, has basically become a bullet point, an article of faith,
in the GOP platform.  Was his Twitter account commandeered by
those tech-savvy youngsters in the Keystone opposition, Keystone
Blockade? Well, Murdoch hasn't issued a retraction. Was, as
@SWIMGUYCHICAGO suggests, Murdoch's brain itself hijacked? Or,
to forward the second prong of his theory: Has Murdoch "reverted
to the Communism of his