Rupert Murdoch also tweets that Rick Santorum's rise in polls shows "Values do count in America."
Wow.
I'm on Murdoch's Twitter feed too. I've been quite surprised by the positions he's been taking.
We seem to be finding out that the raw unfiltered Murdoch is different from the one being presented by the people who work for him.
His personal morality obviously leaves a lot to be desired, however, especially in his more distant past. I've always cut Murdoch a fair amount of slack considering his background in Australia where politically conservative positions are not usually connected with religion or even basic morality in the way they are in the United States. Maybe Wendy Deng convinced him of a secular Chinese version of cultural moral standards? A lot of Gingrich's supporters cite Callista’s apparently positive influence on him after their marriage, despite the obvious problems that created that marriage, and I wonder if something similar happened with Murdoch and Wendy Deng?