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.
Heh. That’s a good one.
Murdoch reenforces the ever growing demise of FOX News.
Maybe, but I'm not sure that's what happened here. Both Fox and Drudge were printing money when they decided to give the finger to Trump supporters.
Just an excuse to hit Trump
They need a competing network fast.
I agree! We knew it would get worse after the election, but who knew it would get this crazy! It’s frightening. I know we will win though.. We know how to survive.. We elected a survivor.
>> The Murdochs are showing their true colors...
Rupert is obviously independent on the social scene, but membership to the chattering class is obviously important to the boy beneficiaries.
Consider the many “conservative” pundits since Reagan that bemoaned the lack of gravitas in Republican leadership. And now that we have it, they shrivel without a micron of testosterone — ironically Podhoretz for one.
Yeah chace more people to AONN!
We knew the boys were lefties.
If that press conference was wild it was only because the reporters all acted liked feral animals.
Isn’t Murdoch still angry because one of his young ex wives is friends with the Trumps? Petty, hateful Soros wannabe.
I watched FoxNews daily for over 20 years.
I cut the cord two months ago.
I get my news here and other places.
I can get live streaming on Fox from Youtube if I need to.
Since last Saturday, I haven’t watched Fox—I knew thy would jump on the bandwagon about C-ville, and they did with both feet.
Their shows are unwatchable and are fast becoming FakeNews.
Their CEO is against Trump, then F’em.
This idiot is doing his best to emulate Carl Hardee Jr.
Nah, they want Venezuela to move here and these idiot neo nazis are giving them their dream shot.
I get my info here and other conservative websites....never TV news.
Murdoch saying/doing something that makes him “feel good” about himself.
Nothing could be more (gag) “liberal.”
Well, it definitely promotes and explains Murdoch’s leftist agenda.
Ahem!
Seems as if they’ve already succeeded at that. How many viewers have already been lost in these early skirmishes?
Personally, would rather watch repeats of old ‘game shows’ than FOX “news”. Prayer is strong a large man will step up to the plate and create a network specifically FAIR AND BALANCED. One that does no catering to Liberal propaganda and love fests.
and something that is not necessarily centered in NY/DC...
'Duly elected' doesn't matter to the 'elites' ...
There's no country run by self appointed 'elites' that hasn't devolved into a hellhole. Coups by 'elites' don't work. The justification that they are bravely standing up to about 4,000 people in the country stupid enough to be 'Nazis or KKK' members - when those groups are TOTALLY POWERLESS IN OUR TIME - IS NUTS.
The time when those groups - Nazis and the KKK - were at their most evil was when THEY WERE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THEIR TIME.
If five people walk up to me and tell me they are "Stalinists" - I'm NOT going to freak out thinking they're the same as the group that starved over seven million people to death. WHEN STALINISTS DID THEIR EVIL THEY WERE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THEIR TIME.
Our liberal establishment is using mentally ill losers who self identify in our time as KKK and Nazi as an excuse to do evil to our county. Hitler used Jews to gather the mob to his side... Jim Crow Southerns used Emmitt Til and others like him... and OUR CORRUPT ELITES are using mentally ill idiots self identifying a hate group members from the past.
Corrupt Elites are the people we must fight... the Establishment elites of our time who are working to take away our freedom to choose our own leaders. They're the problem of this time...
"Corrupt Elites' who are using the same tactics of every other thug group in history...
I don't want mobs taking down statues. I don't want the mob to run anything. I don't want people who work to gin up the mob running the country. I don't want 'elites' or members of the press who think it's OK to lie if it's 'for the cause'... Too many red flags on the left...
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