Professional useless person Joan Walsh of Salon.com tweeted caustically, “I am thrilled to learn Rupert Murdoch was appointed the guy in charge of deciding who the “real black” people are”. On Tuesday he plugged Carson’s appearance on the Fox News program “The Kelly File”. For them, this is what mutes his color.
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Continued Noah about Murdoch’s tweet: “This whole time, conservatives have been accused of disliking Obama because he’s too black, and now it turns out the problem is that he isn’t black enough”. It’s probably no coincidence that Carson became a Fox commentator in 2013 after speaking about the scourge of political correctness and the danger presented by Obamacare while standing feet away from Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast.
A few days ago, he tweeted: “Everywhere pundits keep underestimating Ben Carson“.
Angry commenters have taken to Twitter to rip Murdoch’s racial remarks. In the meantime, if Murdoch is now the man who decides what constitutes real blackness, then life as an African-American in this country is even bleaker than we imagined.
As the social media world responded with rage against Mr Murdoch’s tweet, he defended it by promoting a New York magazine story about “minority community disappointment” with Mr Obama.
But if Murdoch meant to bring support to Carson’s cause, he failed. “How can you have someone like Rupert Murdoch, with all his wealth and power, stoop so low to challenge somebody’s ethnicity” he asked.
If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I’ll auto-excommunicate.
The tweet taps into criticisms about the current White House administration by many who say Obama and his leadership team, including the former attorney general, Eric Holder, have only heightened racial tensions in recent years.
Following a backlash, Murdoch tweeted Thursday: “Apologies!”
The News Corp chairman was received at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing by Chinese President Xi Jinping in September.
In the months that followed, Carson described Obamacare as “worse than slavery” a few times.
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Last week, Murdoch tweeted: “Reputable IBD poll surprises with Carson at 24 and Trump at 17”.
