Rupert Murdoch's first "deleted" tweet

Here is someone who hates everyone. [SMH]

Update: Though the deletion was widely reported, the tweet is evidently still live.

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http://twitter.com/scottanansi Scott Anansi Rossi

wow, he needs Jesus.
http://twitter.com/russellcavanagh Russell Cavanagh

He needs a kick in the ging gang goolies
Auz

He doesn’t hate everyone. See… “Good to see santorum surging in Iowa. Regardless of policies, all debates showed principles, consistency and humility like no other.” https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/153527584766967808
- xian
  
  I like that he worked the phrase “santorum surging” into one of his tweets.
Chuck

Maybe he’s referring to the number of days some people have been unemployed.
David Zwerdling

Maybe Rupert Murdoch has too many newspapers for someone can’t grammar.
http://twitter.com/Sandstorm302 Sam T

Reading this tweet as “I’m still mad about the phone hacking thing”
silkox

Christ, what an asshole.
http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith

Doesn’t Murdoch employ professionals to populate his twitter feed? Or is there a meta fail thing going on here? Say stupid things for attention?
jaytkay

Maybe broke country is for having too many parasite plutocrat leeches.
psulli

Why don’t more Brits use their G5 to get to their holiday island vacation home? It is faster so there is more time for work!
http://www.frogworth.com/blog/ Peter Hollo

I’m not sure why people are saying it’s been deleted. It’s right here still:
https://twitter.com/#!/rupertmurdoch/status/153539815483252738
- http://www.frogworth.com/blog/ Peter Hollo
  
  As is Wendi Deng’s “RUPERT!!! delete tweet!” reply, which is how I found it:
  https://twitter.com/#!/Wendi_Deng/status/153540124158857216
  
  As an aside, I’m quite surprised that the Wendi Deng account has been marked as Verified. Huh!
Kommkast

I have a new idea for a book, “Shit Rupert Murdoch Says”.
- niktemadur
  
  Good one, but if just for one’s own sanity, the less attention paid to this miserable Professor Farnsworth lookalike and his minions, the better.
  
  So I’ll just take the bare minimum, thank you, this one putrid tweet is my weekly dose.
Catbeller

Rupert Murdoch… doesn’t pay any taxes in the UK, and I don’t think he ever did. I don’t think he and his corporations pay much in the US, either. Perhaps if we stripped away his tax breaks, we wouldn’t be quite so broke.
i_prefer_yeti

Hey, he said “maybe.”
http://mordicai.livejournal.com Mordicai

Who elected this jerk? Wait, you…you don’t get to decide that you hate being oppressed by misanthropic plutocrats? You just have to take your lumps or else people call you a socialist? That seems weird. Might makes right? I thought we were supposed to put an end to that, eh?
http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan

It’s also interesting that he thinks a country with one of the fewest statutory holidays has too many of ‘em.
http://www.mrericsir.com MrEricSir

Britain isn’t broke, but ironically the government doesn’t have enough money thanks to Murdoch.
bob d

Oh, what a ~~hateful asshole~~ lovable scamp!
buster_friendly

Me like woopert he silly. No, not really.
Guest

I think that tweet is a perfect metaphor for all the turds in all the punchbowls that every one of his media outlets are.
Durty Burton

Since the notoriously computer-illiterate 80 year-old Rupert Murdoch only sent his first email two years ago, some are suspecting the his new Twitter feed is actually being written by his 43 year-old wife, Wendi Deng, who joined Twitter on the same day as her husband. Deng’s first language is not English, which might explain the curious syntax of Rupert’s tweets.
- http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
  
  What first language is then her of?
  - Cunning Amphibian
    
    Gold Digging
Cunning Amphibian

@ Lemoutan: Deng came to the U.S. in 1988, studied at Cal State Northrige and Yale, so a European like me would naively assume that the knowledge of the American language is, if not a prerequisite, then an ability you would have to aquire for successfully completing your studies…
Apparently, that’s not the case. On a side note, here in Europe we have recently copied the American higher educational system. (And, oh irony, the “reform” is called Bologna…)
taras

Maybe Rupert Murdoch right?

Not much healthy debate here about what he said. We Brits do have far more holidays than people in the US, and you can’t argue that it doesn’t affect productivity.
taras

Oops, I mean “HUR HUR STUPID MURDOCH, Y U H8 ORDANARY PPL U MILIONARE BASTARd”