Fox News A Gaelic Company W/ Epstein Ties
Fox News is one of the most-watched cable news networks in the United States. Its owner, Rupert Murdoch, was born in Australia to a family of Scottish descent. When you look beyond Murdoch himself and examine the heritage of the network's most prominent on-air faces, a striking pattern emerges — a heavy concentration of Irish and Scottish ancestry running through the roster.
This is not a fringe observation. The ancestral backgrounds listed below are sourced directly from Wikipedia and public record. The Mc/Mac surname prefix alone — a Gaelic marker shared by both Irish and Scottish naming traditions — appears across multiple Fox personalities simultaneously. Add in confirmed Irish grandparents, Catholic upbringings, and Georgetown University ties, and the concentration becomes difficult to ignore.
Rupert Murdoch — founder and longtime chairman of News Corp and Fox Corporation — is of Scottish descent. Born in Melbourne, Australia, the Murdoch family traces its roots to Scotland. He built the most influential conservative media empire in the English-speaking world, anchored by Fox News in the United States.
The prefix Mc and Mac is a Gaelic construction meaning "son of" and is native to both Ireland and Scotland. It is one of the most reliable surname markers of Celtic heritage. Across the Fox News roster, the following Mc/Mac surnames appear: McEnany, McDowell, MacCallum, McCarthy, McGurn, McNicholl, McDonnell, McAdams. That is eight prominent figures carrying this specific Gaelic surname prefix at a single network.
Running alongside the heritage pattern is a Catholic institutional thread. Bret Baier was raised Catholic. William Bennett came from a Catholic family in Brooklyn. William McGurn graduated from the University of Notre Dame — the flagship American Catholic university. Kayleigh McEnany attended Georgetown University — a Jesuit institution in Washington D.C. that has historically served as a gateway for Catholic-connected professionals entering politics and media. Sean Hannity has spoken publicly about his Catholic upbringing throughout his career.
Ireland and Scotland share deep genetic and cultural roots. A 2019 genomic study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that the two nations share more common ancestry than previously understood. The Scots-Irish — ethnic Scots who settled in Ulster, Ireland, before emigrating to America in the 18th century — became one of the largest immigrant populations in pre-Revolution America. Their descendants settled heavily across Appalachia and spread through American political, military, and media institutions over generations.
When Rupert Murdoch — a man of Scottish descent — built his American media empire, he built it in a country where Irish and Scots-Irish heritage is among the most common ancestral backgrounds, particularly within the Catholic conservative demographic that Fox News has always targeted as its core audience. Whether the concentration of Irish and Scottish heritage at Fox is the result of deliberate cultural selection, organic community networking, or simply reflects the demographics of American conservative Catholic media culture is a question worth asking.
Beyond the heritage pattern, the man who owns Fox News appears in a separate and significant context — the Jeffrey Epstein federal files released by the U.S. Department of Justice. Multiple documents connect the Murdoch world directly to Epstein's network.
In a July 12, 2011 email (DOJ file EFTA00640486), Epstein writes that the British Royal Palace informed him that Murdoch's New York Post had hacked his phones to monitor his access to Prince Andrew. The Palace alleged Murdoch's operation paid a woman to make accusations against Andrew. The Palace then asked Epstein — not a law firm, not a diplomat — to file a RICO lawsuit in New York against Murdoch, which would have targeted his $40 billion BSkyB acquisition at its most vulnerable moment.
In a September 2011 email (DOJ file EFTA01775569), Epstein is casually corresponding with Michael Wolff — the journalist who wrote the definitive biography of Rupert Murdoch in 2008 — making plans to meet in New York.
By 2012, DOJ files show Epstein's personal assistant coordinating visits by Wendi Murdoch — Rupert's wife at the time — to Epstein's private home. Internal scheduling alerts on the same night confirm the visit was being actively arranged. Epstein's own contact Ian Osborne was simultaneously documented as a houseguest at the Murdoch family home.
For the full breakdown of what those federal files reveal about the Epstein-Murdoch connection, see: Epstein Map — Rupert Murdoch / Fox News Owner
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