Posted on 11/10/2009 11:16:08 AM PST by honestabe010
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 [unintelligible]," Murdoch said in an interview with his Sky News Australia over the weekend, referring to Beck's claim which seems to have been prompted by Obama's reaction to the controversial arrest of African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates.
"But [Obama] 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, [Beck] 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."
In the same interview, Murdoch told Sky that he may remove News Corp newspaper sites from Google searches entirely.
(Excerpt) Read more at thewoodwardreport.com ...
Murdoch may be the single most powerful media person willing to say this. I cannot think of another ceo/owner/operator/chairman anywhere close to this viewpoint in public.
Murdoch is making good money with his product ,,, why not stand behind them ,, only makes good business sense .
Obama is a racist, why not lay it out there for all to see.
Call a spade a spade. No pun intended.
My eyes got big and my mouth said ‘oooooooooooo’ to read this headline ... zero’s a racist and it take one that is not to point it out.
Go Murdoch Go!
Mr. Murdoch, why was it wrong? Liberals call conservatives racist all day long and every day, and get away with it. If those bums can call Bush a murderer when he’s never killed anyone, we should be able to say the truth about the current president.
So is Michael Steele. I wonder when Glenn Beck & Fox News is going to get around to reporting it?
Here is Glenn’s evidence.
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com:80/2009/07/glenn-beck-explains-for-media-his.html
I’ve got a sign in my car window that says, “He surrounds himself with COMMUNISTS because he IS one.” I don’t feel the least bit bad about saying it.
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