Community | November 10, 2009 | 31 comments

Murdoch agrees with Beck that Obama is a racist

source: http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911090046

Image
WakeUpPeople
Back in July, after Glenn Beck called President Obama a racist, NBC News' First Read blog stated:

What's most amazing about this episode is that what Beck said isn't a fireable or even a SUSPENDABLE offense by his bosses. There was a time when outrageous rants like this would actually cost the ranters their jobs. But not anymore; if anything, it's now encouraged

Today, we found out why there were no repercussions whatsoever for Beck's comment - his boss agrees with him. As Think Progress noted, in an interview with Sky News Australia, Rupert Murdoch said of the comment:

On the racist thing, that caused a grilling. But he did make a very racist comment. Ahhh...about, you know, blacks and whites and so on, and which he said in his campaign he would be completely above. And um, that was something which perhaps shouldn't have been said about the President, but if you actually assess what he was talking about, he was right.

So there you have it. Fox News' host calls the president of the United States a racist, Fox News' owner agrees with him, and Fox News' president has a long history of appealing to racial fears and biases for political gain as a Republican strategist. But of course, Fox News is a legitimate news organization.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911090046

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Are we then to conclude that anyone who addresses the issue of racism is a racist? Even when the person is trying to improve relations between races?
  1. groups:
    Community,   Current Tonight,   US Politics,   Progressive America,   1 more
  2. tags:
    News and Politics,  Racism,  Glenn Beck,  Rupert Murdoch
  3.     
    |

31 comments // Murdoch agrees with Beck that Obama is a racist

  • tangibleparadox
  • KSirys
  • maasanova
    • 0
      maasanova  

    • FOX is just playing its role of aggitator by reiterating the ridiculous notion that Obama is a racist. It gets people talking, and even Obama himself said that "racism is catnip to the media."

      Why this is news and not the ongoing wars, the high unemployment, the Goldstone Report which implicates our greatest "allies" as on par with the Nazis, and Obama's willingness to go along with some of the most ridiculous legislation ever written doesn't come as a surprise at all.

    • 2 years ago
  • Future_America
  • HowdyDo
  • tiger23lily
    • 0
      tiger23lily  

    • the sooner everyone gets over this whole race thing?.....im gunna assume the better off we'll be....but i guess thats a far reach...how is this still an issue in a time when EVERYONE is someone else's neighbor....come on people we are internationally bonded at this point....we need to grow up...this racism thing is old....

    • 2 years ago
  • div
    • 0
      div  

    • Love how they think that calling out latent racism is racist in their books. A good nonracist person would pretend it doesn't exist and there'd be no problem of course. Don't even say the word "racism" anymore or you're a racist...
      Let's all be colorblind and ignorant.

    • 2 years ago
  • aswift1
  • LadybugLady
  • brianwilson
    • 0
      brianwilson  

    • It's sad that we had to let "news" get to this point to digest the fact that it has been fundamentally flawed for a long time. Oh well. This doesn't surprise me at all.. actually. Even before Barack Obama ran his campaign most of us should have understood the dangers of letting mass media or "free press" exist as it has been.

    • 2 years ago
  • neocongo
  • margarita_coffee
  • Dersex
  • thevandal
    • 0
      thevandal  

    • I love the fact that really rich people or their kids always say the stupidest shit and cause contoversy over thing that dont even make sense. Then some idoits actually believe them. Well weath gives you illegitimate importance in society.

    • 2 years ago
  • bansheewail
  • keithponder
  • masterzip
  • tommic
    • 0
      tommic  

    • Rupert Murdoch is a capitalist who will say or allow anyone to say what they want regardless of truth in anything as long as he makes money. He was interveiwed one time about Bill O'Reilly and responded how he did not always agree with him but he made a lot of money off of his broadcast. Just goes to show what kind of man Rupert Murdoch is. Anything for a buck Murdoch.

      tommic

    • 2 years ago
  • Maeveeo
    • 0
      Maeveeo  

    • Now do you UNDERSTAND ABOUT FOX NEWS ( & they call them a legitmate )
      THEY ARE RACIST,,,,,You heard it ! Now You Know !,,,,Thank God I Can Change
      The CHANNEL ! ( NOW PUT THAT CHANNEL ON SKIP WHEN TUNING ) !

    • 2 years ago
  • bike10
  • CalPal
  • Still_Falling
    • 0
      Still_Falling  

    • The Grand Wizard agreeing with The Grand Kleagle that Obama is racist - is tantamount to Hitler agreeing with Goebbels that the Jews are inferior.

      Let us just call these people what they really are KKK propagandist, plain and simple ..... if it were up to them there would be a burning cross on the television every morning while Pat Buchanan yell - " long live the white male. "

    • 2 years ago
  • vladbox
    • 0
      vladbox  

    • Ohhh poor little peni3 less white guys, only been in power for what 400 years, and now they have to deal with their own shortcomings.

      These two are major A-Holes.

    • 2 years ago
  • panichead
  • Progresshiv
  • Dersex
  • UWAZell
  • s0uthc0ast
    • 0
      s0uthc0ast  

    • Holy Crap!
      This is news?
      We are agreeing on this NOW?
      Where the hell was everyone when the details 0bama's church came out?
      where the hell was everyone with 0bama's "typical white person" remark?

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
    • 0
      WakeUpPeople  
    • s0uthc0ast:

      http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/obama-talks-mor.html

      In an interview with sports radio 610 WIP in Philly early this morning, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said "the point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, well there's a reaction that's in our experiences that won't go away and can sometimes come out in the wrong way. And that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it."

      He says he wouldn't be running if he didn't think he "could help the country work through some of these issues," while also working on the economy and Iraq, etc.

      ABC News' Sunlen Miller reporters that Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt, attempting to clarify, responds: “Barack Obama said specifically that he didn’t believe his grandmother harbored any racial animosity, but that her fears were understandable and typical of those often shared by her generation.”

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      The people who want Obama to be racist are resorting to pulling quotes out of context. It's quite pathetic.

    • 2 years ago
  • UWAZell
    • 0
      UWAZell  
    • s0uthc0ast:

      When will people like you realise that to hate white people would be to hate not only himself but his mother, grandmother, etc.... it's just not logical. Obama's former pastor can spout all the nonsense he likes, but it's not reflective upon who he is because, when you get right down to it, a lot of older African-Americans harbour those feelings because they grew up in a different time.

    • 2 years ago
more from Community:
from the community

top videos