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Hillary Clinton Turns the Enemy with Magnificent Speech: Conservative Murdoch Lieutenant Endorses Her

By Roger Friedman

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What a night, huh? Doesn’t it seem like we turned a corner back toward sanity? In a decisive knockout, Hillary Clinton stunned Donald Trump.

I was annoyed all evening that Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper kept calling this “the most important speech of Hillary Clinton’s life.” But they were right. And she rose to the occasion.

And in the midst of this, Louise Mensch– the former conservative British MP who saved the Murdochs in Parliament during the hacking investigations– endorsed Clinton.

Mensch now runs Murdoch’s website called Heat Street– www.heatst.com. But she was overcome by Clinton tonight. Murdoch, home taking Viagra and liver spot pills and asking Jerry Hall to stop playing “Start Me Up,” has not Tweeted a peep all night, and since March 4th. But I’d like to be a fly on the wall at 1211 Sixth Avenue tomorrow morning.

Here’s Louise:

and:

Rupert, ask Jerry to place you this Rolling Stones record: “It’s all over now.”

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedmanhttps://www.showbiz411.com
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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