Sean Hannity's boss apparently doesn't agree with Hannity that New York is a totalitarian left-wing hellscape from which all True Conservatives should flee immediately if they know what's good for them:
The media mogul Rupert Murdoch has paid more than $57 million for the top four flours of One Madison, a steel and glass luxury condominium tower in downtown Manhattan, according to people briefed on the sale.(Sentimental value! That's so touching, in a Scrooge McDuck sort of way.)
Mr. Murdoch recently became a bachelor after he and his former wife, Wendi Deng, divorced last November, ending 14 years of marriage. As part of the divorce settlement, he signed over to Ms. Deng a triplex penthouse at 834 Fifth Avenue, which he bought for $44 million in 2005....
Mr. Murdoch's new apartment will be on the 57th through 60th floors of One Madison, a building near Madison Square Park. The owner of the building, Related Companies, said in a statement announcing the sale -- without naming Mr. Murdoch as the buyer -- that the apartment encompassed more than 10,000 square feet....
The Fifth Avenue apartment, which had been previously owned by a Rockefeller, had strong sentimental value for him, Mr. Murdoch has told friends, as he had coveted it since he first arrived in New York decades ago....
But is this a wise choice for Murdoch? Isn't Sean Hannity right? Isn't New York State becoming intolerable for right-wingers, now that Governor Cuomo has said that "extreme conservatives" aren't welcome here? (Cuomo said, of course, that far-rightists are unlikely to win elections in the state, but it's what conservatives feel Cuomo said that really matters.) And isn't Mayor de Blasio turning the city into a place where the 99% get their vengeance against the 1% by refusing to plow their streets for, like, hours?
Oh well, I guess Murdoch has decided he's man enough to tough it out in an encampment in the belly of the beast:
It's a brutal life he's chosen for himself, but Murdoch's a tough old Aussie, so I think he just might survive.
