Secretary of State John Kerry sank to “one of the low points of recent Western diplomacy” by suggesting Islamic State (ISIS) gunmen had a “rationale” for a bloody siege at French magazine Charlie Hebdo, media titan Rupert Murdoch says.
In a speech to the Hudson Institute, which honored Murdoch Monday night with its Global Leadership Award, he tore into the Obama administration foreign policy in particular — and the left in general, the New York Post reports.
“For a U.S. secretary of state to suggest that Islamic terrorists had a ‘rationale’ in slaughtering journalists is one of the low points of recent Western diplomacy and it is indicative of a serious malaise,” the executive chairman of News Corp. and 21st Century Fox and chairman of the Post said.
According to Politico, Murdoch decried America’s loss of direction, and blamed the current culture of self-obsession on the left.
I think Kerry is an awful SecState, but he wasn’t wrong here. If someone drives through an urban neighborhood, rolls down his window and yells “the ‘N’ word”, then is beaten to death when his car stalls wouldn’t you say there was provocation without justifying those who attacked him? That’s all Kerry was saying about the magazine that deliberately provoked Moslems with insulting caricatures of their idol.