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ed note–Saying that Murdoch is STAUNCHLY pro-Israel is like saying Larry Flynt likes porn. And yet, despite this, when Murdoch says what the rest of the freaking world knows concerning Jewish ownership of the press, he is pilloried by the SAME organized Jewish interests who indeed DO own the press and who know this fact too well.The lesson(s) in all of this is simple–(1) Organized Jewish interests LIE on a continual basis, and (2) there is no cooperating with them and getting a pass.
It is like making a deal with a hungry alligator that if you turn in your neighbors that somehow you will avoid being eaten too, only to find out later that you are on the menu as well.
news.yahoo.com
Rupert Murdoch apologized late Sunday for criticizing coverage of the ongoing conflict in Gaza by what he described as the “Jewish owned press.”
“Middle East ready to boil over any day,” the 81-year-old News Corp. chairman and chief executivewrote. “Israel position precarious. Meanwhile watch CNN and AP bias to point of embarrassment.”
“Can’t Obama stop his friends in Egypt shelling Israel?” he continued.
“Lincoln film magnificent,” Murdoch, whose Twentieth Century Fox co-produced the film with DreamWorks, tweeted. “Acting and directing best [in] world. Proud to be associated, even modestly.”
“Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?” Murdoch wrote.
The comment was quickly criticized.
“Displaying his typically staunch pro-Israel stance,” Natasha Lennard wrote on Salon.com, “Murdoch also managed to play on an anti-Semitic trope.”
“[It] is equal parts troubling and illuminating,” Dan Murphy wrote on the Christian Science Monitor’s website. “[Murdoch] seems to believe that the owners of media outlets should require their reporting to conform to their owners political preferences and world-views, rather than reflect observed reality. It’s fair to assume that’s what happens at his sprawling press holdings, particularly his U.S.-based flag-ship Fox News.”
“That’s the illuminating part,” Murphy continued. “The troubling part is his apparent belief that Jewishness should be synonymous with support for the current Israeli government, even for Jewish-Americans.”
“When you say ‘Jewish owned press,’” Bloomberg Businessweek’s Edmund Lee tweeted in response, “do you mean @nytimes?”
Murdoch subsequently issued an apology—on Twitter.
“‘Jewish owned press’ [has] been sternly criticised, suggesting link to Jewish reporters,” he tweeted. “Don’t see this, but apologise unreservedly.”
