In a tweet, Murdoch gave a thumbs up to Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson while taking a shot at Obama.
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How could Rupert Murdoch have possibly known that people might find it a tad rude to suggest that President Obama is not a Real Black President!
The “Nightly Show” host explained the “one-drop” rule, which was used throughout much of American history to justify racist laws against “any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan-African ancestry”.
This is not the first time Murdoch has shared his admiration for Carson – who has previously compared homosexuality to bestiality and paedophilia.
Carson, meanwhile, stirred up controversy in August when he said a Muslim should not run for office because the religion is inconsistent with the U.S Constitution.
Anyway, this morning, likely after seeing the Twitter fall out, Murdoch tweeted out a half-hearted apology insisting he didn’t mean to offend anyone. The president’s 2009 stimulus created millions of jobs and kept 6 million people out of poverty.
Later Mr Murdoch wrote: “Apologies!”
Van Jones, Obama’s former environmental czar, called Murdoch’s tweet “juvenile c-p” during a CNN segment.
Yet here’s Murdoch making it clear that Carson, America’s Dr. Feelbad, has that old black magic necessary to make disappear all that racially ails us.
But casting doubts on Obama’s bona fides as a “black president”, and wrestling with what exactly that means, is nothing new.
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Of course I want him to win, save us from socialism, etc but should listen to good advice and get stuck in! Pressed again, Carson said it was an issue of semantics. But it’s simply hard, if not nearly impossible, to believe that Murdoch genuinely shares the concerns expressed by a range of mostly left-leaning political activists, writers and thinkers or would be pleased if numerous policies that naturally flow from their concerns had become law under Obama.
