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Can I get an amen.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/rupert-murdoch-wonders-twitter-400-pound-woman-got-153729009.html
Rupert Murdoch wonders if 400-pound woman got that way from food stamps, welfare
Earlier this week, news of a woman who fell through the sidewalk on the Upper East Side of Manhattan made headlines. Luckily, the woman, Ulanda Williams, who had been waiting for a bus when the sidewalk collapsed, survived the six-foot drop with only a broken arm and some bruises and cuts.
But adding insult to injury, Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who has been freely tweeting of late, made some disparaging comments in a tweet about the incident. The post from @rupertmurdoch, Jan. 15, 2013:
How did fat lady who fell thru street get to 400 lbs? Welfare, stamps, etc? Then leave us all with 20yrs immense health bills.
Not only did he assume that Williams was on welfare, but he may have missed some of the details in his own New York Post, which had noted that being heavyset may have been to her advantage.
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Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)"Why doesn't he just hack her phone and find out for himself"
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(53,475 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)of course, the story practically wrote itself for Murdoch when he saw "Ulanda Williams" and "400 lbs"....