11.10.2009


“Glenn Beck who you mentioned has called Barack Obama a racist, and he helped organize a protest against him and others on Fox have likened him (Obama) to Stalin is that…

No, no, no, not Stalin, I don’t think, not one of our people. On the racist thing, that caused a (unintelligible–grilling?). But he (Obama) did make a very racist comment. Ahhh..about, you know, blacks and whites and so on, 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.

-Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, responds in a recent interview , backing Glenn Beck




You can tell how troubled Mr. Murdich was by the supposed racist president (“made a very racist comment…about, you know, blacks and whites and so on.”) The "and so on" really sells the whole story and simultaneously speaks to his cultural understanding. One could assume that a media mogul would remember a quote about....race, from the...sitting president. Believable, indeed.