MEDIA MOGUL RUPERT Murdoch has come in for quite a bit of criticism online for the tweet below – with some Twitter users suggesting he meant to imply that Barack Obama was somehow NOT a real black president.
This was the initial problematic tweet, referring to Republican White House hopeful Ben Carson:
The News Corporation founder then referenced a New York magazine article about “minority community disappointment”.
Cue Twitter outrage…
A number of well-known names even piled-on, including producer Norman Lear, and Simpsons star Harry Shearer:
There were hundreds of responses, in fact – you can read the whole lot here (if that’s the sort of thing you’re into).
It’s not the first time Murdoch has indicated his support for Carson – a former brain surgeon who’s been performing well in the GOP primary polls.
Carson himself is quite a controversial figure, it should be pointed out – recently he made headlines for suggesting that Islam was antithetical to the US constitution. He added that he didn’t believe a Muslim should be elected president.
Anyway, Murdoch’s been back online since this whole thing blew up, with the following apology:
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