While the liberal media love to frame Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch as a raging conservative, he certainly likes crossing that image on Twitter. On Sunday, Murdoch proclaimed Michael Bloomberg, the anti-gun, anti-Big Gulp liberal, should be the billionaire candidate running for president.
He tweeted: "With Trump becoming very serious candidate, it's time for next billionaire candidate, Mike Bloomberg to step into ring. Greatest mayor."
When critics wondered why on Earth he would back such a nanny-state mayor as the “greatest,” Murdoch replied: "Agree much about Bloomberg, nannystate, etc, but still a great philanthropic executive who, with Guiliani [sic], made NY the greatest."
Again, the “great philanthropic executive” is best known for bankrolling NRA-trolling groups like Mayors Against Illegal Guns. A couple of hours later, he followed up again with: "I did not say I would vote for him! Just a friend I admire."
Over on Poynter MediaWire, former Chicago Tribune editor James Warren quipped, “It's that Murdoch populist streak and his love of riches-to-mega-riches stories as warmly manifested by the former mayor. We do think Bloomberg should run, if only to assure that the National Rifle Association goes broke trying to trash him.”
