Murdoch unloads on the left!

[Dmitri Veans]

Murdoch unloads on Kerry, Obama, the left

 

News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch, in a discursive speech Monday evening, blasted Secretary of State John Kerry and attacked the left for creating an “identity crisis” that he charged has undermined American strength and fostered terrorism around the world.

And he drew a connection between U.S. foreign policy and domestic culture, arguing that “in recent years, there has been far too much institutionalization of grievance and victimhood.”

The Australian-born media mogul, a naturalized U.S. citizen, also touched on the Republican presidential primary, which he said “has articulated a deep distaste for the slow descent of our country.”

“Before delivering my modest message,” Murdoch joked at the outset of his address accepting the Hudson Institute's Global Leadership Award, “I feel obliged to alert college students, progressive academics and all other deeply sensitive souls that these words may contain phrases and ideas that challenge your prejudices — in other words, I formally declare this room an ‘unsafe space.’”

 

After a few words of praise for former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had just introduced him to the hawkish think-tank crowd, Murdoch quickly pivoted to a sweeping indictment of U.S. foreign policy under Barack Obama, though he did not mention the president by name.

 

“For a U.S. secretary of state to suggest that Islamic terrorists had a ‘rationale’ in slaughtering journalists is one of the low points of recent Western diplomacy and it is indicative of a serious malaise,” Murdoch said, referring to Kerry’s recent mangled attempt to draw a distinction between the assault on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the more recent Paris attacks. “For America to be embarrassed by its exceptionalism is itself exceptional and absolutely unacceptable.” (Kerry quickly walked back those comments, remarking the next day that “such atrocities can never be rationalized, and we can never allow them to be rationalized.”)

Murdoch also laid out a mission for the next U.S. president, according to a copy of his prepared remarks.

 

“For America to have a sense of direction, two conditions are essential: A U.S. leader must understand, be proud of and assert the American personality,” he said, noting that Kissinger had offered a forthright defense of American exceptionalism in his book “World Order.”

 

“An identity crisis is not a starting point for any journey; and secondly, there must be clear goals informed by values and by a realization of the extraordinary potential of its people,”

 

 Murdoch continued.

 

He then offered a brief tour of 20th century diplomatic and military history, hailing the U.S. role in defeating Japan during World War II and standing up to North Korea — fortitude he said the United States had lost in recent years in favor of a culture of self-obsession.

“The left seemed to be happy for the incarceration of millions, whether in Vietnam under Ho or in China under Mao,” he said. “Why agonize over inhumanity when you could blithely celebrate yourself?”

 

Praising Kissinger’s role in nudging China toward a market economy, which he called “a modern miracle” that had lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, Murdoch said, “this fundamental, irrefutable truth must be denied by those who despise America and detest economic freedom.”

 

“The soft left,” he added, “cannot countenance that remarkable human success.”

In a seeming digression, Murdoch also weighed in on the U.S. domestic debate over hydraulic fracturing, which he said “has become a litmus test of principle.”

“Those governments that forbid fracking are the flat-earth fraternity, yes, including New York state,” he said. “They believe that the Earth revolves around them.”

 

Environmentalists fail to recognize the need for oil and gas to remain the dominant sources of energy, he charged. “To deny that reality is to condemn the most vulnerable to the indignity of poverty for the sake of an ideology -- that being the ideology of self. The triumph of the me over the needs of the many.”

 

Liberal “self-indulgence” had hobbled America’s sense of moral purpose, Murdoch suggested, asking: “How can we in this room be content with poverty, intellectual or economic, and how can we be content with a world defined by the ideologies of those who seek to please and appease?”

 

“We are here not to apologize for America, but to celebrate America,” he concluded. “We are here to reflect upon the world as it might have been without America — a much, much lesser world.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/henry-kissinger-rupert-murdoc...

 

 

 

[Virginia Foulk]

Thank you for posting this.  Always encouraging to find some of the men and women with a voice to speak out like Murdoch just did. We need more to do so.   

[Dmitri Veans]

Would also be nice to see leadership on the republicans side start steeping up on the sunday news and make these points. 

To many are afraid of the media and have not yet realized that we all love a republican willing to stand up to them.

 

[DE]

Enjoyed the read..thanks DV...

[Dmitri Veans]

Thanks DE

[kevin kiernan]

Just remember that Murdock has attended the Bilderburg meetings many years now. The NWO is definatly an agenda for him.Although his rah rah sounds good. You must understand what his goal is.He will endorse a candidate that fits his needs. And he wants a progressive. Fox News was backing Bush but now that this election has taken on a heartbeat that is so different then what was expected. He will endorse the one who fits well in globalization strategy.For he thinks he knows best of how our world should be growing towards. We must change how Washington does things. People like Murdock do not want to see the same change we want. He needs to keep his influence in Washington.

[Dmitri Veans]

With Murdock things keep moving to the right, his sons are far more conservative then he is but they do keep dragging him further and further right. 

[kevin kiernan]

I am a conservative. And I like what Murdoch  says.. But I want a government for the people and by the people. ..Not a government of for the people as how Murdoch or Soros or any of the Bulderberg world elites see`s fit.

[Dmitri Veans]

You and eye see eye to eye, I just enjoy it when even the supporters of the new world order get disgusted with how things are going. 

Reagan was a democrat who's views changed based on the direction of the party, some of the new world order crowd are starting to relies it's not what they had in mind. Keep the faith things are changing for the better. The people are rising up but not the way they planed. 

[kevin kiernan]

We have allowed Washington to become a system of governing that these people can influence very easily. With Lawyers and campaign financing that tell these politicians to jump. We have watched it go on for years. We have a chance to get it right, But I see we are blowing it again. The elites see what I see ,and know that they just need to bide time and they will get their agenda back on track. Please do not buy into what they are selling just because it sounds good. If you like what someone says, you need to find out what they are all about before you take their word on anything. If a young man wanted to marry your daughter you would just go by what he says before consenting. So do the work to find out what their angle is...EVERYONE HAS AN ANGLE.. Murdoch is a man who plays the conservative angle which will make us feel like he is on our team..Just remember that he wants to run the team as he see`s fit.

[Dmitri Veans]

I have faith because what you see as blowing it, I see as change for good. We the people are rising up and many of the ruling class will go down in this cycle. The house in my view is going to be more conservative again as it has after each of the last 3 elections. That is just stage one for the taking back America. 

The Senate is next but we need the base to see what they are as they put the breaks on the conservative agenda. Even McConnell sees the handwriting on the wall and has been working with real conservative to give the base more of what they want. I am not fooled by the move as it will end after the next election cycle. With Trump or Cruz as POTUS we will see the base move against the Senate and that scares the hell out of them.

It is a very good time for America as We The People take back the power from Washington, just remember Rome was not built in a day. 

[kevin kiernan]

DV, I say blowing it because we conservatives want everything to be conservative. That will not unite us as a country. To pick a conservative that has the best conservative values, and makes conservatism as his main focus will not fix the overwhelming problem of a out of control crony government.We need a politician who`s main focus is to fix Washington with term limits  ,reform campaign financing., AND MAKE POLITICIANS PAY A PRICE FOR ANY ILLEGAL ACTIVITY. Only one candidate has talked about criminal charges against Hillary or Obama for going to war with out going through Congress. They created a failed state with out any constitutional authority ,And only one person will bring charges against them if elected.

[Dmitri Veans]

I'm confused the democrats want every thing liberal and they fight for it, conservatives just want conservative in Washington to do the same. We are tired of hearing the right has to bend but the left doesn't. I'm dam glad you think we are blowing it,and I hope conservatives keep blowing it. You can support RINO's I'll support conservatives with a spine.