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:
https://twitter.com/woodmasterfresh/status/953728654101630976
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
— Virgilcopia 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.
— Rudy 6iuli9ni ? (@AdjectiveNouns) January 17, 2018
wishing a speedy recovery to the floor that had to have Rupert Murdoch's old ass spatula'd off it
— Turkbert Cransauceko (@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
— Dr Fran van Plannaram Ph.D. (@dismalplaces) January 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/NookaJimi/status/953728471716564995
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
https://twitter.com/BarryMacDoubleU/status/953721369577091072
https://twitter.com/FormerGOPJohn/status/953735320146731008
https://twitter.com/MrVegeta83/status/953726995678093312
https://twitter.com/roadburdened/status/953725174662144000
https://twitter.com/DrPeterZaius/status/953731972291022848
https://twitter.com/robmclean1986/status/953723665576841218
https://twitter.com/canary_burgundy/status/953732799961485313
rupert murdoch please hold off til tomorrow so i can have a good birthday present
— aew couple's third (@TheDiscourse187) January 17, 2018
Let me know when he pops his clogs! I've got champagne on standby
— Political Nerd! (@REBELTROOP) January 17, 2018
the world would be better without rupert murdoch
— nick (@LargeBeer) January 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/canary_burgundy/status/953727856458326016
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
https://twitter.com/brendanomalley5/status/953721527941218304
please please please let Rupert Murdoch die
— Parents Against Prohibition (@themeetingtree_) January 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/RBG_4LIFE/status/953742659696328704
It’s amazing progressives don’t all explode, what with all that compassion inside of them.
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