Comedian Aziz Ansari, star of NBC’s Parks and Recreation, spent Sunday evening going off on an expletive-filled Twitter rant against both 21st Century Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch and Christianity.
While his co-star on the show, Amy Poehler, was busy hosting the Golden Globes Sunday night, Ansari was busy tweeting things such as, “Are you responsible for the evil s–t all Christians do or just the insane amount of evil you yourself contribute to?
The media mogul originally tweeted:
Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 10, 2015
Big jihadist danger looming everywhere from Philippines to Africa to Europe to US. Political correctness makes for denial and hypocrisy. — Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 10, 2015
Murdoch was soon chastised by Harry Potter’s J.K. Rowling for his comments, but the backlash he received from Ansari was more direct and, not surprisingly, more vulgar.
The comedian suggested that Murdoch should claim a share of responsibility for all of the ills in society, including everything from pedophilia, to the death of John Lennon, creating the Twitter tag #RupertFault:
***Some Tweets Contain Graphic Language***
.@rupertmudoch Are you responsible for the evil shit all Christians do or just the insane amount of evil you yourself contribute to?
— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) January 12, 2015
.@rupertmurdoch You are Catholic, why are you not hunting pedophiles? #RupertsFault
— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) January 12, 2015
.@rupertmurdoch is Christian just like Mark David Chapman who shot John Lennon. Why didn’t Rupert stop it? #RupertsFault
— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) January 12, 2015
To be clear, I am not religious and have nothing against Christians or Muslims, just ignorance like what @rupertmurdoch is spreading.
— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) January 12, 2015
.@rupertmurdoch, you’re already a vaguely evil media conglomerate guy and THEN you’re ALSO racist? FOR REAL?! You’re an evil overachiever!
— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) January 12, 2015
SHAME RUPERT SHAME RT @mt_hardison .@azizansari Christian rock music. #RupertsFault
— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) January 12, 2015
Fucking up a nice Golden Globes by making me go into a Twitter rage #RupertsFault
— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) January 12, 2015
Ansari ended his rant by sharing a link to an NBC news poll to corroborate his opinion that Murdoch was nothing more than “evil” for his dissent from mainstream media narratives:
When NBC News can legit put up a poll that says “Are you evil?” you’ve failed as a human being @rupertmurdoch: http://t.co/EumYY0FdbP
— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) January 12, 2015
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