Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has reportedly suffered a serious back injury:
Breaking: Rupert Murdoch was hospitalized for serious back injury after accident on son's yacht, will be out of office for weeks recovering.https://t.co/SfpKyKI3U7
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) January 17, 2018
More from Vanity Fair:
Rupert Murdoch suffered a serious back injury while vacationing on his son Lachlan’s yacht in the Caribbean earlier this month, three sources familiar with the incident told Vanity Fair. The 86-year-old media mogul was helicoptered off the boat and was, until recently, recovering in a Los Angeles hospital, one of the sources said. The incident is said to have happened shortly after the New Year’s holiday.
Last Friday night, Murdoch sent an email to his senior management informing them of the accident: “I hope you all are having a great start to 2018. I suspect it has been better than mine,” he wrote, according to a source who’s seen the email. “I am writing to tell you that last week I had a sailing accident and suffered a painful back injury. While I am well on the road to recovery, I have to work from home for some weeks. In the meantime, you’ll be hearing from me by email, phone and text!”
We give CNN’s Brian Stelter a hard time around here, but at least he has the graciousness to put aside differences and wish Murdoch well:
Awful. Wishing him a speedy recovery https://t.co/WtyBGD4Pww
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 17, 2018
Other tweeters were generous, too — with their hatred, that is:
lmao good
— T/yler Wood, Dilbert Genius (@woodmasterfresh) January 17, 2018
Nothing trivial I hope..!
— David Scott (@DavidPoppops) January 17, 2018
Karma, Rupert, it’s called karma.
— Barbara Walsh (@AtreiyaN7) January 17, 2018
🥂 Best news I've heard all day… #Karma
— Nicolai (@nickh1877) January 17, 2018
was he trying to suck himself off
— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) January 17, 2018
Rupert Murdoch had diarrhea so hard it blasted him into the sky and he broke his back when he fell back down
— Ryan Manns (@ryan_the_manns) January 17, 2018
Shame on gravity for half-assing this one.
— Omni Lovato (@AdjectiveNouns) January 17, 2018
wishing a speedy recovery to the floor that had to have Rupert Murdoch's old ass spatula'd off it
— Oldbert Thirtysevenko (@AlbertBurneko) January 17, 2018
I hope Rupert Murdoch got folded in half like a flip-phone and spends the rest of his days on a not-quite-sufficient morphine drip.
— Derek (@ricketyoldshack) January 17, 2018
Sad news this, I always wanted to be the first person to seriously injure Rupert Murdoch on a yacht
— Doctor Pseudonym (@dismalplaces) January 17, 2018
Shame about Rupert Murdoch,shame he didn’t go overboard.
— uzi🌚 (@NookaJimi) January 17, 2018
The only bad thing about Rupert Murdoch getting injured on a yacht is that he didn't fall overboard with a concrete block tied to his ankle. Fuck him.
— Louie Gourmet (@xDILDOZERx) January 17, 2018
Please join us in wishing Rupert Murdoch a swift case of MRSA while in hospital, and none of the benefits of the science he’s denied for years. https://t.co/FD3OHQM8YP
— WithAGirlPod (@WithaGirlPod) January 17, 2018
GOOD. and i mean that very sincerely. typically I wouldn't wish ill will on others. but he's a uniquely odious human, and a genuinely hope he's suffering.
— Barry Mac W (@BarryMacDoubleU) January 17, 2018
Dear @rupertmurdoch : I hope you're in unquenchable pain, you fucking fascist. You've ruined American politics for a generation. Shame on you.#HopeItHurts
— Former GOP John (@FormerGOPJohn) January 17, 2018
Hopefully he's in constant agonizing pain.
— Justin Brock (@MrVegeta83) January 17, 2018
Deng. Too bad he didn't die.
— JR (@roadburdened) January 17, 2018
Do better, Reaper.
— Capuchin Time (@DrPeterZaius) January 17, 2018
It'll be "breaking" news when he's Fucking dead
— Red Bob (@robmclean1986) January 17, 2018
so excited at the possibility of Rupert Murdoch dying I'm practically giddy
— dog and robot dog (@canary_burgundy) January 17, 2018
rupert murdoch please hold off til tomorrow so i can have a good birthday present
— Tide Pod with a Dad Bod (@THE_Smoot) January 17, 2018
Let me know when he pops his clogs! I've got champagne on standby
— BOO (@REBELTROOP) January 17, 2018
the world would be better without rupert murdoch
— polite doofus (@LargeBeer) January 17, 2018
it would be great if Rupert Murdoch died and was in a great deal of pain when it happened. Really really great. wonderful actually.
— dog and robot dog (@canary_burgundy) January 17, 2018
Rupert Murdoch has had a fall, hope he doesn't get well soon, but suffers horrendous pain but his mind is alert and susceptible to his condition. When the old fucker dies I do hope he pisses himself a good few days before and remains undiscovered..
— Ste O'Brien (@stemark01) January 17, 2018
fatal please
— JOLLY BHOY (@fultybhoy4) January 17, 2018
you are the reason we have Trump
please die soon…— : Brendan O'Malley : (@brendanomalley5) January 17, 2018
please please please let Rupert Murdoch die
— The Meeting Tree (@themeetingtree_) January 17, 2018
I wish Rupert Murdoch the absolute worst. Hope he stays in severe pain until he dies.
— RBG MISSILE (@RBG_4LIFE) January 17, 2018
It’s amazing progressives don’t all explode, what with all that compassion inside of them.
