Murdoch Agrees With Beck: Obama Is a Racist
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
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Washington, DC - Today, Media Matters for America denounced Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, who recently declared that Glenn Beck was "right" when he called President Obama a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."
Media Matters released a video of Murdoch's statements: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLe-x6bA8G4
"Rupert Murdoch's comment proves that Glenn Beck speaks for the highest level of Fox's leadership," said Eric Burns, President of Media Matters. "If Murdoch wants any hope of redeeming what little credibility his network has left, he should apologize immediately."
BACKGROUND
Murdoch's comments are simply the latest example of Fox News' emergence as a partisan political organization waging a campaign to destroy President Obama and the progressive agenda.
As Media Matters has noted, Fox News president Roger Ailes spent the better part of his career working as a Republican media consultant, during which time he became known for appealing to racial fears and biases for political gain. Under Ailes' leadership Fox News routinely employs these same tactics in its ongoing campaign to destroy the Obama administration and the progressive agenda. Examples include:
- Hannity just can't "get over" his Rev. Wright obsession. Sean Hannity -- who claimed he "broke the story" about Obama's controversial former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, during the 2008 campaign -- mentioned Wright on at least 45 different episodes of his Fox News show between Obama's inauguration and July 31.
- O'Reilly tease: "[S]hould white Americans be concerned about Judge Sotomayor?" Bill O'Reilly stated, "Next on the rundown: Should white Americans be concerned about Judge Sotomayor? Later, far-left Hispanic group says if you oppose the judge, you could be racist" [The O'Reilly Factor, 7/13/09].
- Rev. Peterson: Obama was elected "mostly by black racists and white guilty people." On Hannity, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson said, "I think we all agree that Barack Obama was elected by, mostly by black racists and white guilty people" [Hannity, 2/3/09].
Previously, Fox News' senior vice president of programming Bill Shine unconvincingly attempted to distance the 24/7 political operation from Beck's comments by claiming that they "represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel," adding that "as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions."
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I don't think there's much to be redeemed. Therefore, I'm betting he won't bother to apologize. His reputation is already shot. He will forever be tied to Glenn Beck and the rest of his Freak Show, despite his attempts to distance himself from them.
They prove no such thing. Murdoch's comment proves that Glenn Beck and him agree on this issue. And his reputation is not already shot, because if it were, he wouldn't be the head of a major news company. Accusing Beck, Hannity, and O'Reily of being part of a freak show is slanderous and entirely inaccurate. It just simply isn't true. If you don't like them because they disagree with you and have opposing viewpoint, explain that. Don't photoshop them into an outrageous picture that is slightly funny, but very degrading.
The Proof is in Rupert Murdock, a Racist no longer in Disquise.
It's no longer Fox News but News Corp itself that must be Stoped.
Mr. Murdoch made a verbal goof, he spoke from his heart & may have inadvertantly provided the needle for their Racist Balloon to finally be Popped.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
Furthermore, the race thing is extremely ironic to me because the left use it to their advantage all the time. The pitch to minorities of all variety is "oh, you poor victims of Republican racism...vote for us and we'll help you - you're powerless without us." That view is inherently racist, but panders to people's emotions and feelings of altruism. The conservative point of view says anyone of any color has the ability to achieve if only we get out of their way and allow them to be personally responsible.
Obama is quite possibly a racist. He tolerates whites who are convenient to him politically, but seems to have genuine disdain. After all, he wanted reparations. He has stated that the constitution basically keeps blacks down.
News Corp. "Where all our opinions come with a Cape and a Hood!"
Is Murdoch running the American agenda?
Obama has been attacked by this man and his network for two years and the American people who elected him have been silent.
"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That's the world! On which hope sits!"
"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know - there's a reaction in her that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it. What makes me optimistic is you see each generation feeling less like that. And that's pretty powerful stuff"
Obama attended a church for 20 years that preaches things like "God d@*n America," "the government made AIDS to kill black people," "whites should give their wealth to black people," and honored Farrakhan, a man who REGULARLY calls white people "devils."
I'm not saying that Obama IS a racist against white people, BUT, is it really inconceivable to think that a person who attended a church that spouts such rhetoric MIGHT have a problem with the status quo that IS white America?
Does any white person agree that they are devils? Do any white people think that the American government created AIDS to specifically kill black people? Do any white people think that they should give their money to black people?
Sorry, but such are the sentiments of fringe militants in the black community, who really have animosity for the white culture. Sorry, but Obama attended such a militant church.
I don't think it helps race relations in our country to sweep such things under the rug and simply label Beck a "racist" simply because this is a tough and sensitive issue.