Rupert Murdoch has put his considerable influence behind black Republican candidate Ben Carson.
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“Ben and Candy Carson terrific”, Murdoch wrote.
However, Obama has long identified as black and spoken frankly about the African American experience and the problems posed by racism in the United States.
Jones continued going after Murdoch and Fox and even said that “Fox News has been an enemy of African-American struggles since it started”. Carson, Detroit ghetto to brilliant neurosurgeon. He’ll likely learn that we don’t want Ben Carson representing our views-on any matter.
But if Murdoch meant to bring support to Carson’s cause, he failed.
The social media response was swift.
“But when was Rupert Murdoch ever concerned about what Obama’s done for black people or about what black people need in the first place”. “Read New York magazine for minority community disappointment with POTUS”, he tweeted.
President Barack Obama participates in a conversation co-hosted by… The media mogul has 630,000 Twitter followers.
Stelter noted that Murdoch is active on Twitter and occasionally gets into hot water, but added, “This is the kind of tweet that’s in a whole other league”. And 21st Century Fox, of which Murdoch is executive co-chairman, is staying out of it.
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The incendiary tweet from Murdoch came as Carson has been in the hot seat for his own controversial comments.
