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Rupe Disses 'in-the-Dark' Blind NY Gov

Murdoch: Paterson 'doesn't really know what's going on'

By Jane Yager, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 18, 2009 6:54 AM CST

(Newser) – Continuing his streak of casually slamming black Democrats, Rupert Murdoch yesterday said New York's blind governor, David Paterson, "can't read braille and doesn't really know what's going on." Murdoch's comments about Paterson, coming a week after he agreed with Glenn Beck that President Obama is a racist, support Michael Wolff's claim on Newser that Murdoch PR chief Gary Ginsburg has ditched his post, leaving Murdoch unscripted and drifting into dangerous territory, the HuffPo reports.

At a Wall Street Journal-sponsored conference of CEOs, Murdoch decried the state of New York politics, saying, "The congress there, the state assembly and the senate, are totally incompetent. With a governor who's a very nice, honest man who's blind and can't read braille and doesn't really know what's going on. It's not a joke, it's a tragedy we're facing at the moment."

New York Gov. David Paterson meets with reporters in his office at the Capitol in Albany, NY, on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)

News Corp.'s Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch mingles after breaking for lunch at the annual Allen & Co.'s media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, earlier this year. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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godawgs

Nov 18, 2009 8:15 AM CST

@alk no it's not. the people who make those skits do so with a certain intent. I mean when an entertainer on Fox says something it is taken as the gospel of the right wing (thinking glenn beck here) but not the same for the left....

alkaseltzersammich

Nov 18, 2009 6:18 AM CST

SNL is entertainment/comedy that borders on absurd on purpose for ratings and to be funny. Much like Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy etc etc etc. This is different from somone who represents a news agency.

godawgs

Nov 18, 2009 5:23 AM CST

@alk why? they both are making statements about the same person, in basically the same way. SNL portrays Paterson has a blind moron who isn't fit to be governor. Murdoch said the same thing, the only difference is that he owns Fox news and the left hates Fox News. Had Maddow or Olberman said this we would have never heard about it.

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