Monday, July 02, 2012

It's that pot/kettle thing again

So, Rupert now says:

"Scientology back in news," Murdoch tweeted. "Very weird cult, but big, big money involved with Tom Cruise either number two or three in [hierarchy]."

The owner of Fox News, Wall Street Journal and New York Post followed the "cult" comment with another tweet.

"Watch Katie Holmes and Scientology story develop," Murdoch wrote. "Something creepy, maybe even evil, about these people."

While Cruise is often associated with Viacom's Paramount Pictures, the Los Angeles Times noted, he has also starred in films for 20th Century Fox--the studio owned by News Corporation--and is "known for being prickly about being challenged about his involvement with Scientology."

Murdoch, though, is standing by his comments.

"Since Scientology tweet hundreds of attacks," he wrote later. "Expect they will increase and get worse and maybe threatening. Still stick to my story."

After a user asked Murdoch for his thoughts on Mormonism, he responded: "Mormonism a mystery to me, but Mormons certainly not evil."

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I'm not one to often leap to the rescue of religion. For my part they are all weird! But this simply strikes me as the pot calling the kettle black. And, besides, isn't it the Amerikun way to kill anything that is "a mystery" or different in any way?

And, evil? Jeez, ya wanna talk evil? How about money? Doesn't the Bible, Capitalisms primary minions cattle prod, explicitly state that money is the root of ALL evil? Doesn't Rupert have a boat load of that stuff? Wouldn't that, aside from all the truly creepy and evil stuff we all know he does, make him evil?

Maybe Scientology is creepy. But Rupert is a creep in his own right... a creep to be held up as a shining example to aspiring creeps.

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