Murdoch: Beck was right!
If this soundbite isn’t already tearing it up across the internet, it soon will be. The Business Insider’s Jay Yarrow writes about Rupert Murdoch making comments on Sky News regarding Glenn Beck’s “racist” remark…
At the 18:04, the interviewer says “Glenn Beck who you mentioned has called Barack Obama a racist, and he helped organize a protest against him and others on Fox have likened him (Obama) to Stalin is that…”
Murdoch’s reponse:
“No, no, no, not Stalin, I don’t think, not one of our people.
“On the racist thing, that caused a (unintelligible–grilling?). But he (Obama) did make a very racist comment. Ahhh..about, you know, blacks and whites and so on, which he said in his campaign he would be completely above. And um, that was something which perhaps shouldn’t have been said about the President, but if you actually assess what he was talking about, he was right.”
November 9, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Busted. Rupert Murdoch: leader of the conservative mainstream media.
November 9, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Who’s going to bust on Murdoch? lol
November 9, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Can someone explain to me how an Australian managed to spearhead a conservative media empire in America?
November 9, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Murdoch has been an American citizen for decades. I assume you’re not saying that being an Australian-born ‘naturalized’ citizen somehow makes him less of a citizen than anyone else.
November 9, 2009 at 2:48 pm
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No J$, I just find it amusing that the American conservative media is spearheaded by someone born in another country. In other words, I don’t appreciate someone coming to my country and turning our news media into an ideological shoutfest.
November 9, 2009 at 2:56 pm
What do you think about marathon runners, Joe?
But, realistically, I think your complain is more with Ailes, than Murdoch. Murdoch is the money man… not necessarily the spearhead. Remember, he was a much bigger HRC supporter, than BO or JMC.
November 9, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I don’t appreciate Hollywood A-Holes going to a foreign country to bad mouth my country. I find that to be cowardliness!
November 9, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Rupert Murdoch brought us A Current Affair and Maury Povich. I wish he’d stayed home.
November 9, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Joe, stop trying they don’t get the joke. Not to mention their responses are boringly predictable.
November 9, 2009 at 3:19 pm
stop trying, they don’t get the joke.
I know, but I’m bored. Zone bringing ‘the off-topic crazy’ was hugely entertaining.
November 9, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Hey Pwned, where you been?
November 9, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Joe… as well as “The Simpsons,” “Family Guy,” “24,” and a bunch of others.
(PS- “Maury” is owned by NBC)
November 9, 2009 at 3:25 pm
staying away for my mental health. arguing with people who don’t listen/think/reason is tiresome.
November 9, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Blue, if you think a couple of cool TV shows is gonna make me forget that Murdoch turned the American news media into tabloid crap, you don’t know me as well as I thought you did.
November 9, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Staying away for my mental health.
Tried that. Failed.
November 9, 2009 at 3:41 pm
You say ‘tabloid crap’ like it’s a bad thing…
November 9, 2009 at 3:43 pm
You say ‘tabloid crap’ like it’s a bad thing…
Apparently, someone gets the joke.
November 9, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Joe… if you think FOX is responsible for the tabloid stuff, you’re sense of television history is wrong. Tabloid programs and argument shows were around long before FOX was ever on the map.
November 9, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I know Blue, but Murdoch mainstreamed it.