In an interview with SkyNews last week, Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns Fox News, said Glenn Beck “was right” when he called President Obama “a racist” this summer.
Some background: In August, after a white cop mistakenly arrested a black Harvard professor in his own home, touching off a nationwide debate about race, Obama said during a news conference that James Crowley, the police officer, “acted stupidly.”
Beck jumped on the comment, saying Obama has “a deep-seated hatred for white people.” He later said, “I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people. … He has a, this guy is, I believe, a racist.”
Asked about that comment last week, Murdoch — ultimately, Beck’s boss — said Beck was right, even though he maybe shouldn’t have said as much.
“On the racist thing, that caused a grilling. But [Obama] did make a very racist comment about, you know, blacks and whites and so on, which he said in his campaign he would be completely above. And, you know, 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.”
(Via ThinkProgress)
