On Tuesday he plugged Carson’s appearance on the Fox News program “The Kelly File”. They are happy to pounce upon Obama’s “otherness” as fodder: propagating false narratives that he is Muslim, that he is a “race baiter”, that he is somehow “foreign” (birther conspiracy, his photos in Kenya, etc.).
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Seemingly every poll that shows Carson nipping at the heels of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is greeted with an enthusiastic tweet from Murdoch.
“The Obama era of black silence on issues that are important to us is over”, Jones said. Co-host George Stephanopoulos highlighted “that controversial comment by the billionaire behind Fox News”.
“Everywhere pundits keep underestimating Ben Carson“.
Thursday morning, Murdoch took to Twitter again to apologize for his comment.
“Have you ever noticed that a few black presidents veto bills like this, but real black presidents veto bills like this?” joked Noah in Murdoch’s accent.
After people fired back at Murdoch’s tweet, he posted another tweet referencing a New York Times article that reportedly describes how the minority community is dissapointed with President Obama.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is trending on social media and the Internet due to a post on Twitter that could suggest something about President Obama.
“He is not a racist by any stretch of the imagination”, said Dr Carson. “Very early, but watch Ben Carson”, Murdoch said.
Another said: “But surely you would know that saying someone is not ‘real black is offensive?!”
Murdoch, for his part, hasn’t been reticent to chime in on the presidential race on his Twitter account.
Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images For SiriusXM Murdoch praised GOP contender Ben Carson (r.) and also complimented his wife, Candy Cason (l.) in a tweet Wednesday.
Unless Murdoch was referring to Bill Clinton, who was once called the first black president by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize laureate Toni Morrison, it seems clear that the News Corp CEO meant Barack Obama.
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Almost eight years into the Obama presidency, many Americans forget Obama wasn’t all that accepted by the hard-left’s grievance-consumed, African-American intelligencia.
