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Rupert Murdoch may own conservative properties like the New York Post and Fox News Channel but that didn’t stop him from praising Sen. Barack Obama to the skies. From ABC News’ Jake Tapper.
At the Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference, Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corporation — owner of Fox News Channel, and the New York Post, among other platforms many consider conservative — was practically gushing about ….liberal Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois.
“He’s become a rock star, it’s fantastic,” Murdoch said.
(Watch video excerpts HERE and HERE.)
Murdoch said Republicans were in for a tough time this November. “You’ve got the Obama phenomenon; you’ve got undoubtedly a recession,” he said.
As for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Murdoch said McCain has “been in Congress a long time” which means he’s made “too many compromises. So, what’s he really stand for? He’s a patriot, he’s a friend of mine, a very decent guy, I think he has — and I say this sympathetically — I think he has a lot of problems.”
Asked point-blank if he had anything to with the New York Post endorsing Obama in the New York primary, Murdoch said, “yeah.”
The Alley Insider also reports that Murdoch said, “I want to be convinced that Obama is the real thing, that he can really carry through. I’m open to that.”
He said Obama “might not carry Florida, because the Jewish people are suspicious of him, and so are Hispanics… and while people won’t talk about it, race will matter.”
And Clinton supporter Hillary Rosen writes at the Huffington Post that Murdoch also said of Obama, “I don’t think he will win Florida…..but he will win in Ohio and the election” plus “I am anxious to meet him” and “I want to see if he will walk the walk.”
What the heck…?
Murdoch isn’t really a conservative but an opportinist. He fears the GOP will suffer more losses in November which is almost a foregone conclusion at this point and just in case McCain also loses he will have set himself up as a friend of the next president and help insulate his empire from attacks from the Democrats. It’s a smart strategy since should McCain win he too will be a friend so he wins no matter what. What he is doing now is much closer to his true political leanings than anything else.
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Don Irvine is Chairman of Accuracy in Media. He is active on Facebook and Twitter. You can follow him @donirvine to read his latest thoughts.
If Obama is elected (God forbid the thought), Mr. Murdoch will become the Gustavo Cisneros of the U.S. Gustavo Cisneros is the Venezuelan media magnate, owner of Venevision among others, who met “secretly” with Hugo Chavez and none other than Jimmy Carter to apparently work out a deal whereby he sold his soul to the devil and changed Venevision’s editorial line and stopped all criticism of and bad news about Chavez. This arrangement was done to avoid the same fate as RCTV which was pulled off the air by Chavez because of their opposition to his government (if we can call it that). Mr. Cisneros showed a total lack of either “cojones” or principles, probably both.