Steeve Doocey: “We’ve got some serious problems in this country, we are teetering on default and what do they do? They talk about [the Murdoch hacking scandal].”

Yeah, how can any real news agency report on a mafia don’s empire hacking into the phones and computers of a kidnapping victim, fallen soldiers, and advertising competitors — then bribing the highest levels of Scotland Yard to avoid criminal charges — when we’re teetering on a completely artificial crisis engineered by the same mafia-payrolled candidates who are blackmailing the majority population of the country into accepting a minority ideological position on the threat of destroying the country?

10 arrests and 2 whistleblower deaths so far, including the “suicide” of the first person to come forward over the hacks. Scotland Yard already says there’s “nothing suspicious.”

From the New York Times:

News America was led by Paul V. Carlucci, who, according to Forbes, used to show the sales staff the scene in “The Untouchables” in which Al Capone beats a man to death with a baseball bat. Mr. Emmel testified that Mr. Carlucci was clear about the guiding corporate philosophy.

According to Mr. Emmel’s testimony, Mr. Carlucci said that if there were employees uncomfortable with the company’s philosophy — “bed-wetting liberals in particular was the description he used” Mr. Emmel testified — then he could arrange to have those employees “outplaced from the company.”

Clearly, given the size of the payouts, along with the evidence and testimony in the lawsuits, the News Corporation must have known it had another rogue on its hands, one who needed to be dealt with. After all, Mr. Carlucci, who became chairman and chief executive of News America in 1997, had overseen a division that had drawn the scrutiny of government investigators and set off lawsuits that chipped away at the bottom line.

And while Mr. Murdoch might reasonably maintain that he did not have knowledge of the culture of permission created by Mr. Hinton and Ms. Brooks, by now he has 655 million reasons to know that Mr. Carlucci colored outside the lines.

So what became of him? Mr. Carlucci, as it happens, became the publisher of The New York Post in 2005 and continues to serve as head of News America, which doesn’t exactly square with Mr. Murdoch’s recently stated desire to “absolutely establish our integrity in the eyes of the public.”

The same right-wingers who think even the tiniest reduction in oil consumption would be the end of American life as we know it and many of the same right-wingers who (now) agree with the left that you need congressional approval for involvement in Libya do not believe you need you even need a congressional bill to cut off social security and medicare checks or cut the federal budget in half.

Oh, and Grover Norquist and the corn-state Republicans are calling Tom Coburn’s plan to repeal ethanol subsidies a tax hike. So even at the brink of collapse, “pro-market” Tea Partiers won’t give up their socialized earth rape.