JIM TREACHER: “Rupert Murdoch gets Barack’d again:”
At yet another fundraiser in El Paso [on Tuesday, Obama] let fly with the following canard about immigration: “One CEO had this to say about reform. ‘American ingenuity is a product of the openness and diversity of this society… Immigrants have made America great as the world leader in business, science, higher education and innovation.’ That’s Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, and an immigrant himself. I don’t know if you’re familiar with his views, but let’s just say he doesn’t have an Obama bumper sticker on his car.” There are only two minor problems with this. As TheDC’s Matthew Boyle notes: “Obama may have taken Murdoch’s comments a bit out of context, though. Murdoch legally immigrated to the United States and acquired U.S. citizenship in 1985. The immigrants Obama was trying to help with his ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ are in the U.S. illegally.” Details, details. The other problem is that in 2008, Murdoch advised his official biographer Michael Wolff to vote for Obama in the NY Democratic primary. Why? “He’ll sell more papers.” But hey, it’s not like he put it on a bumper sticker.
Of course, saying that Murdoch “doesn’t have an Obama bumper sticker on his car,” sort of implies that most in the news media do.