Posted on 08/17/2017 8:24:18 PM PDT by jazusamo
James Murdoch, the CEO of 21st Century Fox and son of conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch, ripped President Trump's response to violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, also pledging a $1 million donation to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The Hollywood Reporter reported Thursday that it had obtained the email memo Murdoch sent to friends. In the email, Murdoch says he was concerned with Trump's comments on the violence that broke out after a white supremacist rally last Saturday.
"What we watched this last week in Charlottesville and the reaction to it by the President of the United States concern all of us as Americans and free people," Murdoch wrote in the email.
"These events remind us all why vigilance against hate and bigotry is an eternal obligation — a necessary discipline for the preservation of our way of life and our ideals. The presence of hate in our society was appallingly laid bare as we watched swastikas brandished on the streets of Charlottesville and acts of brutal terrorism and violence perpetrated by a racist mob," the email continued.
"I can’t even believe I have to write this: standing up to Nazis is essential; there are no good Nazis. Or Klansmen, or terrorists. Democrats, Republicans, and others must all agree on this, and it compromises nothing for them to do so."
Later in the email, Murdoch announced that he would be donating to the ADL, and encouraged his friends to do so as well.
Heather Heyer, 32, was killed and more than a dozen people were injured when a driver, who allegedly had connections to white supremacists, plowed his vehicle into a crowd of counterprotesters on Saturday, according to police.
In a wild impromptu press conference Tuesday, Trump doubled down on his claims that "both sides" deserved blame for violence by white nationalists in Charlottesville.
The comment has resulted in backlash from politicians and political observers from both political parties.
I’m very concerned that the Murdoch kidz would want to move to Venezuela.
Agree and I have no respect for lying pigs who know fully well the president’s words were appropriate. They are using this nonsense for political agendas. As a starting point they either believe or are pretending to believe the president has anything to do with groups like the KKK. They are just lying liberal pigs.
they are going to run that network into the ground.....
He bites the hand that feeds.
More stupidity from the leftists elites. See here:http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/08/apple-funds-left-wing-hate-group.php
At least white supremacists do not obstruct my speech (yet) asking congress to tax me to fund for their speech as Planned Parenthood does!
These hypocrites ignore the biggest hate, which is the hate in heinous deeds they promote, and not speech.
Hate crime legislation calling for funding of certain speeches is also most oxymoronic in the kind
Note constatnt reference to a “wild” press conference. The president took and answered their questions. They yelled and interrupted him but he remained calm and answered them all. Only “wild” because that’s their view of a man who stands up to them and speaks his mind. There was nothing wild about it.
YES. Fox News is DEAD.
Hannity needs to get out of there on his terms. ASAP.
Don’t watch fox anymore plus I cut the chord so don’t have cable and those fees don’t to them either...
*concern all of us as Americans and free people*
Speak for yourself and leave the rest of us free people to think for ourselves!! You are trying to side with the crowd of idiots! We side with the man who is keeping us free Americans safe and our country great again.. He is the one you should be thanking!
Can’t wait for Hannity to defend him, too.
Absolutely! President told the truth and that’s not what they wanted to hear.
[ Hannity needs to get out of there on his terms. ASAP. ]
His contract must be dipped in gold and made out of neutronium or something for them to be unable to fire him.
This is all getting very out of hand and definitely looks like a deliberate hit piece. Trump didn’t every say anything to take offense at regarding the punk that hit the commies with his car. Every story about this is utter lies. There is no truth at all in what is being reported.
“The Murdochs are showing their true colors, Fox conservative News is dead.”
There are a lot of Freepers with true Masochistic problems, who watch Faux to get their daily punishment. Then they whine about what they watched.
Self Defeating ( Masochistic ) Personality Disorder -
PsychNet-UK
www.psychnet-uk.com/x_new.../personality.../criteria_personality_masochistic.html
Paranoid Personality Disorder Self-defeating or Masochistic Personality Disorder is a pervasive pattern of self-defeating behavior, beginning by early adulthood ...
Yet another reason to avoid what used to be the at-one-time fair and balanced news, where they reported and we decided.
PING!
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