At this point we shouldn't expect Rupert Murdoch to have much of a grasp on reality. After all, it wasn't too long ago that the chairman of News Corp defended Fox News host Glenn Beck's comment that President Obama is a “racist” who has a “deep-seated hatred for white people” by saying, “he [Obama] did make a very racist comment.” We're still waiting to find out what “very racist comment” Murdoch was talking about.

Now it seems he's lost touch with reality yet again, this time at a forum tonight in Washington, DC where he attacked the objectivity of rival news outlets in one breath and struggled to name a single Democrat at Fox News in the next.

Huffington Post's Sam Stein reports:

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose empire includes a host of predominantly conservative-leaning institutions, accused his competitors, on Tuesday night, of being the ones with the biases.

Speaking at a forum for the public affairs TV series, The Kalb Report, the News Corp. CEO valiantly declared that his rival networks -- MSNBC and CNN -- “tend to be Democrats” while those at his own Fox News “are not Republicans.”

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Asked later during the question and answer session to name a single Democrat who worked for Fox News, however, Murdoch struggled.

“They are certainly there... Greta Van Susteren is certainly close to the Democratic Party,” he said, after blanking on names first and insisting that Ailes would have a long list. “She doesn't do many political stories. She is just a great journalist... but people who have been involved in Democratic politics and so on, yeah we have people...”

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The media mogul was peppered with a host of comments related to bias, and in each case fought the perception that he's made his fortune by catering to the conservative audience. Asked by an official at the progressive watchdog group, Media Matters, for instance, whether it was ethical for officials at Fox to promote the Tea Party movement (as has been documented on some occasion) he replied without hesitation.

“No. I don't think we should be supporting the Tea Party or any other party. But I'd like to investigate what you are saying before condemning anyone.”