August 23, 2010

Mosque Rage Is About Rupert Murdoch and News Corp.

By Michael Wolff

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Frank Rich neatly traces the entire brouhaha about the near-Ground Zero Islamic center back to Fox News and the New York Post. I can attest to the obsession inside of Murdoch’s News Corp. about Muslims. I’ve had conversations with Murdoch in which he, in pseudo-scientific fashion, parses the problem with Muslim intelligence (in brief, they marry their cousins), and conversations with Roger Ailes about the great Islamic plot to bring the terror war to his house in New Jersey. In other word, all this stuff out of New Corp. is the real, unfiltered thing: retro, primitive,...