Rupert Murdoch apologizes, Rupert Murdoch, who founded the Account Corp. media authority that includes Fox Account Channel, apologized on Thursday for a Twitter bulletin suggesting that Admiral Barack Obama isn't a "real atramentous president."
Murdoch accepted Republican presidential applicant Ben Carson and his wife as agitating in a cheep Wednesday, adding, "what about a absolute atramentous Admiral who can appropriately abode the ancestral divide?" In a abstracted message, he encouraged humans to apprehend a New York annual commodity about disappointment a part of some blacks about the president.
Following a backlash, Murdoch tweeted Thursday: "Apologies! No answerability meant. Personally acquisition both men charming."
White House columnist secretary Josh Earnest said he didn't apperceive whether Obama was acquainted of the tweet.
"I did agenda that Mr. Murdoch tweeted an acknowledgment this morning. I aswell acclaimed that a Fox accumulated agent was asked about this and said something like 'I'm not traveling to adduce on Mr. Murdoch's tweets.' And I'm not traveling to either," Earnest said Thursday.
Carson, interviewed on CNN, said he advised the altercation "much ado about nothing."I apperceive Rupert Murdoch," Carson said. "He's not a racist by any accompaniment of the imagination. He's just cogent his opinion."
Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer whether he advised Obama a absolute atramentous president, Carson replied, "Well, he's the president, and he's black." Pressed again, Carson said it was an affair of semantics. "I'm the endure being who wants to accord with semantics and political correctness."
Former Obama abettor and accepted CNN analyst Van Jones, said on that arrangement that he begin Murdoch's cheep "outrageous and disgusting," and said that Fox Account had done added to attenuate Obama than any account alignment had anytime done for a president.
"This admiral has done aggregate he could do in the face of Rupert Murdoch," Jones said. "If Rupert Murdoch cares about atramentous people, he should acquaint the humans at Fox Account he does so, because you can't get that from watching Fox News."
Murdoch accepted Republican presidential applicant Ben Carson and his wife as agitating in a cheep Wednesday, adding, "what about a absolute atramentous Admiral who can appropriately abode the ancestral divide?" In a abstracted message, he encouraged humans to apprehend a New York annual commodity about disappointment a part of some blacks about the president.
Following a backlash, Murdoch tweeted Thursday: "Apologies! No answerability meant. Personally acquisition both men charming."
White House columnist secretary Josh Earnest said he didn't apperceive whether Obama was acquainted of the tweet.
"I did agenda that Mr. Murdoch tweeted an acknowledgment this morning. I aswell acclaimed that a Fox accumulated agent was asked about this and said something like 'I'm not traveling to adduce on Mr. Murdoch's tweets.' And I'm not traveling to either," Earnest said Thursday.
Carson, interviewed on CNN, said he advised the altercation "much ado about nothing."I apperceive Rupert Murdoch," Carson said. "He's not a racist by any accompaniment of the imagination. He's just cogent his opinion."
Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer whether he advised Obama a absolute atramentous president, Carson replied, "Well, he's the president, and he's black." Pressed again, Carson said it was an affair of semantics. "I'm the endure being who wants to accord with semantics and political correctness."
Former Obama abettor and accepted CNN analyst Van Jones, said on that arrangement that he begin Murdoch's cheep "outrageous and disgusting," and said that Fox Account had done added to attenuate Obama than any account alignment had anytime done for a president.
"This admiral has done aggregate he could do in the face of Rupert Murdoch," Jones said. "If Rupert Murdoch cares about atramentous people, he should acquaint the humans at Fox Account he does so, because you can't get that from watching Fox News."
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