Should Rupert Murdoch be removed as News Corporation CEO?

Andy Martin questions Rupert Murdoch’s corporate sanity. “Hannity’s America” furor plays out in an Illinois court as Rupert Murdoch dodges process servers in New York City and demands that his family members be exposed to delivery of legal papers. “Is Rupert Murdoch bonkers, or what?” asks Andy Martin. Hearing set Tuesday, April 28th at 9:00 A.M.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR DUPAGE COUNTY, ILLINOIS


IN CHANCERY
No. 2009 MR 000111
Hearing Date: 4/28/09
Assigned to: 2005

ANDY MARTIN,

Plaintiff,

v.

ROBERT GIBBS, et al.

Defendants.
____________________________/





CROSS-MOTION TO STRIKE MOTION TO QUASH BY RUPERT
MURDOCH OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, TO SET A BRIEFING
SCHEDULE AND HEARING ON PROPER NOTICE WITH PRIOR
DISCLOSURES AS TO MURDOCH’S HOME, ETC.

Plaintiff hereby files this expedited response to a Motion to Quash filed by Rupert Murdoch on April 24th.
1. Because the motion to quash was not filed with proper notice, it should be stricken.
2. Plaintiff believes the Court should set a briefing schedule on the motion to quash, since Plaintiff has now submitted his affidavit of service and defendants Murdoch and Shine need to traverse that affidavit with their own sworn testimony.
3. Plaintiff moves the Court to order Murdoch and Shine to disclose their home addresses at which they wish to be re-served, and to identify the members of their households so that a process serves can stand by the buildings and serve a proper family member in propria persona.
4. So there is no doubt in the mind of this Court, contrary to defendant Murdoch's position Plaintiff does not believe it is proper to stalk a person's home to serve legal papers in a commercial dispute. Further, Plaintiff seriously doubts that Rupert Murdoch has personally authorized a stalking of his residence to serve papers on a family member in this lawsuit. The motion to quash appears to be the product of overzealous Chicago attorneys who are making work and building a bill but failing to exercise the common sense that should be a hallmark of every attorney’s advice to a client.
Once Murdoch and Shine have to formally disclose their home addresses, and swear under oath they were not served at their business addresses—when the sworn evidence is to the contrary—they may well have second thoughts about their attorneys’ dubious strategy.
The Court is aware that while Plaintiff and the New York Times have argued over issues in this lawsuit, the Times has not chosen to argue over service of process that is made in accordance with New York law on a security-guarded commercial structure.
If Murdoch is really authorizing and directing his current strategy in this Court, he should be removed as CEO by the board of News Corporation for violating News Corporation’s corporate government policy (see attached).
Dated: April 27, 2009
Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN
NATIONAL LITIGATION CENTER
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-2639
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Additional courtesy copy requested to:

ANDY MARTIN
REGIONAL LITIGATION SUPPORT
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Chicago, IL 60611-4723

SERVICE OF NOTICES IS RESPECTFULLY
REQUESTED BY FAX OR E-MAIL

Additional e-mail address available
upon request


CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify I have served Wade Thompson, Esq., by fax to (312) 840-8713; Givonna Long, Esq., by fax to 9312) 419-6928, Richard Nogal, Esq., by fax to (630) 655-9808 on April 27, 2009.

ANDY MARTIN

Andy Martin has media mogul Rupert Murdoch on the run

Rupert Murdoch is dodging Andy Martin’s process servers. Murdoch is afraid to own up to his slimy corporate behavior as a stooge for Barack Obama. Murdoch invites Martin to stalk Murdoch at his home: does anyone know where Murdoch lives in Manhattan? Obama’s “slime squad” against Andy Martin is slowly being exposed. Hearing set in Illinois court to enter a default against Murdoch for attacks on “Hannity’s America guest.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin has media mogul Rupert Murdoch on the run

Murdoch is filing bogus motions in Illinois and trying to dodge Andy’s process servers

ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com

“Factually Correct, Not
Politically Correct”


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

News Corporation media mogul Rupert Murdoch is on the run—dodging Andy Martin’s process servers

Murdoch says he wants Andy to stalk Murdoch at his New York mansion (is Murdoch senile?)

(NEW YORK)(April 25, 2009) Last October, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News interviewed me in Chicago, a fact that Murdoch’s Chicago attorneys do not seem to realize. I was a guest on “Hannity’s America” and provided the first coherent timeline linking all of the radicals in Barack Obama’s life. Since my appearance, Hannity himself has gone considerably beyond the claims I made in attacking Obama.

But on October 5th, during the heat of the campaign, Barack Obama went berserk and created a dirty tricks operation to smear me. Obama’s mud-merchant-in-chief was Robert Gibbs.

Obama & Co. virtually ordered the New York Times to smear me. In two stories, one of them on the front page, the Times tried to suggest I was insignificant. The best smear the Times could come up with was a 25 year-old attack on me by a federal judge who I had exposed for engaging in corruption and conflicts of interest.

Why would the Times put an “insignificant” person on the front page? Because my anti-Obama truth squad was costing Obama millions of votes and depriving him of a runaway victory.

Later in October, Murdoch sent his munchkin William Shine out to smear me to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. Murdoch was groveling at the feet of Obama and Murdoch is known for groveling when it concerns his pocketbook.

Now ask yourself, when has any cable TV program, let alone Hannity’s America shown on Sunday nights, triggered two stories in the New York Times, as well as comments to the Washington Post? Why were Obama & Co. so obsessed with smearing me? Because they knew my columns were costing them millions of votes.

To clear my good name and to expose the corruption of both the New York Times and Fox News—which Murdoch is increasingly turning into a sympathetic outlet for Obama--I filed suit in the state where the Fox interview occurred, Illinois.

A process server was sent to serve Murdoch and Shine, and I went along to observe. I saw everything. Murdoch and Shine tried to hide behind the security guards in their office building and would not allow the process server to serve them.

Next week we have scheduled a motion for default against Murdoch and Shine.

At the last minute, Murdoch has hired a sleazy Chicago law firm to file false claims on behalf of both men. Murdoch says the law requires me to stalk him at his home and to serve him as he exits or enters his residence in Manhattan. He lives in a secure doorman building, so it would again be impossible to obtain entry for a process server.

Mr. Murdoch, who is so brave when he comes to smearing people, is a puny little old man when it comes to appearing in court and owning up to his slimy corporate behavior.

But since Murdoch has invited me to stake out his home and family (you can also serve family members) does anyone know where Murdoch and family live in New York?

In the meantime, now you know what kind of a scumbag Murdoch is. He smears people who appear as guests on Hannity’s America and tell the truth about Barack Obama.

I am very proud my columns cost Obama millions of votes. My only disappointment is that they did not cost him enough votes to defeat him. Murdoch was no help. He was in Obama’s pocket. He still is.
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of radio and television experience and is the informal “dean” of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new internet movie Obama: The Hawai’i Years. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds Economics and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Illinois and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York. He is an announced candidate for Barack Obama’s former U. S. Senate seat.

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Is Barack Obama an enemy of the American people?

Andy Martin says Barack Obama is betraying freedom all around the world. Last October, Andy predicted Barack Obama’s future embrace of Hugo Chavez, on “Hannity’s America.” Obama retaliated by creating a dirty tricks operation to smear Andy. Rupert Murdoch groveled to the Obama campaign. But Andy’s prophesy has, sadly, become a reality. Obama and Chavez: perfect together. The freedom-loving people of Venezuela have been betrayed. Who’s next on Obama’s hit list?


Internet powerhouse Andy Martin says "I am ashamed to be an American; Barry Obama is a traitor"

Martin says Obama is betraying the freedom-loving people of Venezuela and bowing down to yet another dictator

Barack Obama is an enemy of the American people

ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com

“Factually Correct, Not
Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

“NOW YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY,” SAYS ANDY MARTIN

OBAMA ERUPTED IN OCTOBER WHEN MARTIN PREDICTED OBAMA AND CHAVEZ WERE PEAS IN A POD—SEE THE VIDEO OF ANDY ON HANNITY

“THE ONLY TWO PEOPLE ON NATIONAL TV WHO TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA WERE SEAN HANNITY AND MYSELF”

(NEW YORK)(April 19, 2009) Please forgive me for a very angry column. I truly apologize for losing my temper at Barack Obama.

I don't often feel ashamed of the United States and frustrated with the American people, but I feel ashamed and angry today. Gullible Americans voted for an enemy of the United states to sit in the White House: Barack Obama. We will pay the price in blood soon enough. Our men and women in uniform will die as a result of the world chaos being created by Obama.

Please don't misconstrue my views on foreign policy. Diplomacy is essential, and diplomacy means dealing with your enemies as well as your friends. I have no problem with the State Department dealing with Venezuela, or Iran, or Cuba or North Korea. I would encourage State to do so. That’s what our representatives are supposed to do. But dealing with your enemies takes a deft hand.

Barry Obama’s groveling to dictators exposes him as an enemy of the American people and an enemy of freedom all around the world. Obama is a socialist saboteur who is deliberately destroying America’s image and the hopes of freedom-loving people everywhere. Who is he going to grovel to next?

Those are some of the more complimentary things I can say about him today.

Watching Obama bow to the Saudi king was an embarrassment, but it didn’t really change anything.

But watching Obama cavort with Hugo Chavez yesterday made me sick. No really. Sick. Obama is betraying the freedom-loving people of Venezuela.

Last fall Obama created a dirty tricks squad to smear me, and he sent his designated moron Robert Gibbs to attack me on national television. What had I done to incur the wrath of the chosen one? Take a look for yourself at my prophesy on the video (look at my segment at the link below, Part II); I had predicted the future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8zj_Fj3QpY&annotation_id=annotation_259119&feature=iv

I said on Hannity’s America: "If you love the Cuban revolution and Castro, and if you love what's happening in Venezuela with Hugo Chavez, you'll love Barry Obama."

Obama’s attempt today to deflect criticism of his submission to Hugo Chavez, by comparing the dollar-value of Venezuela’s defense budget to the United States' defense expenditures, is pure sophistry. No one expects Venezuela to attack the U.S.

The issue is freedom: Chavez has enslaved Venezuela and made himself a Castro-style dictator. He kills his enemies. He has bankrupted that wealthy nation. People are increasingly hungry. But William Ayers and Hugo Chavez? They love each other. Ayers was Obama’s advance man in Venezuela. Billy-boy laid the foundations; Obama is building his temple of love to Chavez.

Obama has betrayed every Venezuelan who is working to preserve freedom and democracy there. Imagine how Venezuelans who are fighting Chavez’ dictatorship must feel seeing Obama confer his seal of approval on Chavez. America has seldom been more disgraced by a chief executive. Barack Obama is an enemy of the American people.

Obama knew what he was planning to do if he became president, and last October he exploded when I laid out the time line of his radial connections from Ayers to Al-Mansour to Chavez and Castro, on Hannity’s America. It’s all there in my appearance on Sean’s show.

Now you know why the extreme left and George Soros’ brown shirted thugs attacked me so vehemently post-Hannity: I had decoded Obama’s plans and spoken the ultimate truth about how he planned to betray the United States.

My prophesy on Hannity’s program has now become a realty.

Now you know the rest of the story. And you know why last year the Obama campaign targeted me as their #1 enemy. They knew.

I tell the truth.

Every freedom-loving, loyal American is increasingly endangered by Barack Obama and his coterie of anti-American saboteurs in the White House. Is everyone who works for Obama a bad apple? Not at all. Many are good people who are supporting the work of a bad man. But I guarantee you Obama’s cozying and coddling dictators is going to bear bitter fruit for the American people.

Footnote: Rupert Murdoch, the groveling media baron, disgracefully smeared me for going on Hannity’s program and exposing Obama. Who has been vindicated by events? Me? Or Murdoch?

Footnote #2: “Operation Aloha Obama II” launches in Honolulu on May 9th. Please contribute at BoycottHawaii.com to support this search for the truth.

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Readers of Obama: The Man Behind The Mask, say the book is still the only gold standard and practical handbook on Barack Obama's unfitness for the presidency. Buy it.
Book orders: Amazon.com or http://OrangeStatePress.com. Immediate shipment from Amazon.com or signed copies (delayed for signing) from the publisher are available.
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www.CommitteeofOneMilliontoDefeatBarackObama.com
Please give generously. Our ability to fight and defeat Barack Obama's political agenda is directly dependent on the generosity of every American.
“The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama has no bundlers, no fat cats and no illegal contributions. Obama is opposed to almost everything America stands for," says Executive Director Andy Martin. "But while Obama has raised a billion dollar slush fund, his opponents lack sufficient resources. Americans can either contribute now, or pay later. If we do not succeed, Obama will."
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York. He is an announced candidate for Barack Obama’s former U. S. Senate seat.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA

His columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS: Chicago news conference: Internet Powerhouse to seek President Obama's former U. S. Senate seat

Wednesday, February 25th corruption-fighter Andy Martin becomes the first announced candidate for Illinois' 2010 U. S. Senate primary election

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124

ATTENTION: DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEWS CONFERENCE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin will seek Barack Obama's former U. S. Senate seat in 2010 Republican primary

Andy will run on his five decades of experience fighting political and judicial corruption

Martin enjoys worldwide respect for independence, integrity and accuracy

Andy challenges his potential Republican opponents to "Come on in"

(CHICAGO)(February 25, 2009) For the past five decades only one name has consistently been identified with fighting political corruption in Illinois. Andy Martin. As a young law student at the University of Illinois, Martin began by challenging "ghost voters" in Champaign County. He went on to expose local corruption by the "courthouse gang" in Urbana.

In 1969 Andy was part of a team that exposed two corrupt judges at the Illinois Supreme Court and forced them off the court. In the 1970's he sent corrupt Daley (I) Machine operatives to federal prison. See AndyMartin.com for a detailed biography.

Decade after decade, Andy has exposed corruption and official abuse nationally and in Illinois. (We even have a new Illinois Court of Appeals scandal coming later this week, or next. Watch for our exposure of Obama's Watergate-style "dirty tricks" operation against Andy, also in the works.)

Wednesday, February 25th Andy Martin will announce his candidacy for the U. S. Senate, to succeed incumbent Roland Burris in the seat formerly occupied by President Barack Obama.

"As the fog clears from the 2008 election," Martin says, "it is becoming clearer that Barack Obama feared me more than any of the other media. His inner circle went ballistic after I appeared on Hannity's America and presented the first coherent timeline for Obama's radical associations. Obama trembled when I landed in Hawai'i with the first investigative team and exposed local cronyism and corruption in that state. Obama & Co. did everything they could to stop me. But they couldn't. I cost Obama millions of votes, and I certainly cost him a bigger margin of victory.

"Starting in 2010, I want to cost him votes in the U. S. Senate.

"The Illinois Republican Party is controlled today by Daley Machine sympathizers, lead by Daley stooge Andrew McKenna, with McKenna's father pulling the strings behind the curtain.

"No Republican has a chance of winning statewide unless they break the stranglehold exercised by McKenna's corrupt 'State Central Committee' that does everything in its power to destroy Republican candidates. I call on this committee to resign, and I call on Republicans, Democrats and Governor Quinn to enact a law allowing every Republican to vote for the state committeeperson of their choice.

"I will take my campaign to all the People of Illinois, to Democrats, Republicans, independents; to Chicago, suburbs and downstate counties. To everyone and everywhere.

"In a year when the issue of corruption is paramount, no one remotely approaches my proven track record of success in fighting Illinois corruption over the past five decades. Peter Roskam? A very good man, but no corruption fighter. Mark Kirk, another very good man. And again someone with no record of fighting corruption. If these guys want to run, I say 'Come on in and join the fight for the future of Illinois. Don't be bashful.' I will take on all comers.

"More than being just local, I have established a worldwide reputation for independence, integrity and accuracy. I will tell the voters what they need to hear, not what Obama wants them to hear. If Republicans want a fighter in 2010, I am their only choice.

"Roland Burris? I have known Roland for over 30 years. He is a good man who has been sullied by the media. If he wants to work on a bipartisan basis for the next two years, he can have my assistance until I become the Republican nominee. But honestly, I don’t think Illinois' future lies in Roland's hands.

"Many people thought 2008 was the 'transformational' election. It wasn't. 2010 will either 'transform' America into Barack Obama's Banana Republic, a grander version of Chavez' Venezuela, or restore America's Constitution and return the USA to rational domestic and foreign policies.

"Today the battle for the future of America begins."

NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash
(indoors at 30 E. Huron if weather requires), Chicago

WHEN:

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 4:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Andy Martin will seek Barack Obama's former senate seat in 2010 Republican primary

MEDIA
CONTACT:

(312) 440-4124; Cell (917) 664-9329

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com

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Readers of Obama: The Man Behind The Mask, say Andy Martin's book is still the only gold standard and practical handbook on Barack Obama's unfitness for the presidency. Buy it.
Book orders: Amazon.com or http://OrangeStatePress.com. Immediate shipment from Amazon.com or signed copies (delayed for signing) from the publisher are available.
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URGENT APPEAL: The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama continues to raise money to oppose President Barack Obama.
http://CommitteeofOneMilliontoDefeatBarackObama.com.
Please give generously. Our ability to fight and defeat Barack Obama is directly dependent on the generosity of every American.
“The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama has no bundlers, no fat cats and no illegal contributions. Obama is opposed to everything America stands for," says Executive Director Andy Martin. "But while Obama has raised an almost billion dollar slush fund, his opponents have raised virtually nothing. Americans can either contribute now, or pay later. If we do not succeed, Obama will."
E-mail: contact@CommitteeofOneMilliontoDefeatBarackObama.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting experience in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of Illinois' www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Martin comments on regional, national and world events with over forty years of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.

His columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. Andy is the author of Obama: The Man Behind The Mask, see www.Amazon.com or www.OrangeStatePress.com.

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com [NOTE: We frequently correct typographical errors and additions/subtractions on our blogs, where you can find the latest edition of this release.]
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009