Rupert Murdoch Forms External “Diversity Council” For News Corp Media Empire
Folding to pressure from civil rights groups and, uh, “community organizers” still upset about that dead chimp editorial cartoon.
News Corp. is forming an external diversity council in response to pressure over a New York Post cartoon that critics said compared President Barack Obama to a dead chimpanzee.
The cartoon appeared in February. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch published an apology in the Post, but civil rights and community organizations demanded further action.
NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said Wednesday that News Corp. had agreed to form a “diversity community council” that will meet semiannually with company executives.
Call me a dirty racist, but I don’t think it’s particularly constructive to compare any President to a chimp whatever their skin color. Over the eight years of the Bush administration, the comparisons of the President to a chimp were endless. Not to mention the allusions to Bush being a stupid cowboy, backward rube, coke-sniffing frat boy and on and on.
Keith Olbermann routinely suggests that Bush and/or Cheney are worse than terrorists. And yet, you never hear about the left needing to hire any diversity consultants.
Double standards are lovely, no?
