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...

 

 

 

[DE]

DV..I see it as you do...this is what We conservatives are fighting for...and these two..the duo .are fighting for...Cruz and Trump...

[kevin kiernan]

What are you talking about. I do not support RINO`s. Rand Paul is no RINO. Hey if your only interested in making policies conservative. And you do not fix the way Washington operates, then you are blowing it.So you think all Democrats are liberal. Trust me not all. But if you said all liberals are Democrat`s, you would be very close to right.The Tea Party is out to fix Washington. It`s has 98% conservatives, but the agenda is not a conservative one. Fixing Washington, making it smaller and less intrusive, while getting rid of career politicians is what the Tea Party`s mission is.It  does not have a conservative  mission per say.I for one am not interested in Liberal bashing. Our country has been divided enough. And that plays right into the hands of the so called progressives. Keeping us arguing over our different lifestyles is perfect cover for them to operate....YES WE ARE BLOWING IT.

[Dmitri Veans]

The fix is to replace blue-dog democrats that have moved into the republican party. A vote for Rand Paul is not a fix it is a bandage but the problem still remain. If you read my posts you will see I support replacing those blue dogs with conservatives with a spine and will to fight.  Read my post about the house and you will see. 

I along with a large group of people are working to fix the party not just hire a president to fight with both parties. Think small think Paul, think large vote the RINO out and get Cruz or Trump to take over the RNC, that's thinking big. 

[kevin kiernan]

Your saying Paul is a RINO ?

[kevin kiernan]

I started out here just trying to warn what Murdoch is truly about. I have mega amounts of research on the who is who in the NWO scheme of things. Just do not get you shorts in a tivy because he soothes your conservative soul. He has a huge plan about how him and a selected few see which direction the world is going..

[Dmitri Veans]

On every board I post on there are people who seek to look at all the good taking place in Washington and frame it in a way that that might demoralize some. But I see Boehner gone, I see the RINO's like Renee Elmers falling 25 points behind her conservative rival. I see the open republican seats abandoned by RINO's in the house and I see a base ready to take names and kick some but in this primary season. 

I see at the same time the democrat party in ruins as they have lost power in state's house and senate, I see over 30 of the governors are now republican. To those who chose to frame everything as gloom and doom I suggest you go work for the media or find a Democrat board where the sentiment should be found.

I am happy as a pig in shit by the changes in the Republican party.