Murdoch: Beck "Was Right," Obama Made Racist Comment

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

After a summer of silence, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch has piped up to say that his newest Fox News star, Glenn Beck, "was right" when he called President Obama a racist in July even if he was wrong to say it.

"On the racist thing, that caused a ," Murdoch said in an interview with his Sky News Australia over the weekend. "But did make a very racist comment about blacks and whites and so on, which he said in his campaign he would be completely above. And that was something which perhaps shouldn't have been said about the President, but if you actually assess what he was talking about, was right."

Beck's comment prompted an advertiser revolt, with many brands boycotting his show and directing their advertising dollars to other Fox News programs. It can also be seen as his tipping point: since July, Beck has been challenging Rush Limbaugh as the media voice of the Republican party; his ratings are up, he's made the cover of TIME magazine, he received the key to his hometown, and, this past weekend, he was even skewered on "SNL."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/10/murdoch-beck-was-right-ob_n_351959.html

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Now can we take away his 'American' citizenship??

[Ian David]

1. What does Mr. T say?

[LynnTheDem]

2. LOVE it!!! Rupie tying himself to his batshit crazy beck!

Poor Glen Beck is going to crash & burn...and I hope he damages Rupie when he does.

[tsuki]

5. What are you talking about? Beck has always been The Morlock's

fair haired boy.

[still_one]

3. murdoch is a POS, whose anti-trust empire should be broken up /nt

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Too bad Rupert couldn't point out what Obama said that was racist.

[Jamastiene]

10. That's what I was thinking.

It sounds like an innuendo campaign. They should put up or shut up on that.

[Cha]

13. Their audience doesn't require facts just an old asshole

telling them it's true.

[tsuki]

6. BTW, The Morlock went to a foreign country and critized the US. Isn't

that the Act of A Traitor That Hate America? Oh, Sean, where are you? Aren't you going to comment?

[BumRushDaShow]

7. The advertising loss must be killing him.

:rofl:

[tosh]

8. Extend advertiser boycott to ALL F()X news!

[Uncle Joe]

15. That's what I was thinking, Beck is just Murdoch's puppet and if boycotting Beck

was justified then surely Murdoch's enabling and condoning of Beck's message should garner the same treatment for all of Murdoch's media holdings.

Murdoch is irresponsible and dangerous not only to real journalism but society as a whole, hiding his own personal hate filled beliefs behind his wealth enabled, sycophant, puppet minions.

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. Murdoch thinks everyone is a Sun reader.

[LaPera]

11. Google just told Murdoch he can keep his (lying) stories! Murdoch is truly a fucking neo-con fascist

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Google_says_Murdoch_stories_can_be__11102009.html

[and-justice-for-all]

12. The most destructive thing you can do to Beckkk, is ignore him..

just stop giving him a spot light.

Yeah, he says shit that is just made up, flat out lying, but fuck him and the loonie bastard he rode in on....put beckkk on your ignore list.

[lpbk2713]

14. Murdoch's whole empire is swirling down the crapper right at this moment.

So naturally he's going to lie his weasel ass off. That's what he does best.


And as for Beck, related link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6970939&mesg_id=6970939


:rofl: