This guy's been a menace since day one:Watched the Super Bowl. Sort of enjoyed the Stones at half-time. Got curious about how old Jagger was. Looke him up in Wikipedia (he's 62). On the same
bio page, encountered this:
Drug controversy
In 1967 Jagger and Richards were arrested and charged with drug possession after a highly publicised raid on Richards' country house, during which it was alleged that Faithfull was found naked except for a fur rug wrapped around her. The raid was later revealed to have been prompted by a tip-off to the London Drug Squad by journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News Of The World, which at the time was running a series of lurid reports about the alleged use of illegal drugs by British pop stars.
Murdoch. And now he runs Fox News, the NYPost, Weekly Standard, and other influential media entities.
CORRECTION: Commentator Namdoog points out that Murdoch didn't take control of the
News of the World until 1969. The Wikipedia entry (quoted above) was misleading. Uggabugga regrets the error.
posted by Quiddity at 2/07/2006 12:38:00 AM
BUT according to the Wikipedia article, he didn't acquire the tabloid in question until 1969, so I don't think you can fairly blame this on Rupert "The World Is Not Enough" Murdoch.
The great thing about Wikipedia is that anyone can edit the articles to fix mistakes. If there is proof to back up the 1969 factoid, then someone please do it. Namdoog, what's your source please?
Dearest brainhell, my source was the Wikipedia article cited by Quiddity in the original post. If you think it's wrong, you should produce something more authoritative to correct it.
You want a connection? I'll give you a connection -- though it doesn't work the way we'd like it to.
Public opinion in England was greatly influenced in the Jagger/Richards case when The Times of London published an editorial called "Who Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel?," which criticized the harshness of the sentence. Mick and Keith were freed not long after it appeared.
Well, the author of that editorial was William Rees-Mogg -- who later went on to write a series of right-wing/libertarian/slightly loony books with James Dale Davidson. Also, Davidson and Rees-Mogg edited the newsletter Strategic Investment, in which (between financial tips) they floated scurrilous rumors about Bill Clinton:
Davidson and Rees-Mogg have never pulled any punches about the Clintons. Each month, the newsletter detailed the Clintons' sordid drug, mob, and murder connections.
(NewsMax)
Make of this what you will.
