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Rupert Murdoch Defends Moses Movie Casting: “Since When Are Egyptians Not White?”
Showbiz411 ^ | November 28, 2014 | Roger Friedman

Posted on 11/29/2014 10:56:58 AM PST by CharlesOConnell

Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter tonight to defend 20th Century Fox's new movie "Exodus" that casts Christian Bale as Moses, and a variety of white actors as Egyptians. There’s been scuffle on Twitter ever since Murdoch made his observations. And a lot of this stems from a quote director Ridley Scott gave Variety about why he didn’t use Egyptian or Arab actors for the film. He said: "I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such," Scott says. "I'm just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up."

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To: mjp

Like some FReepers, leave it to the Egyptians to try to pin Cushans & Nubes w/ all the problems at their sites ....


41 posted on 11/29/2014 2:13:43 PM PST by mikrofon (Weekend BUMP)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Since black is the new black.


42 posted on 11/29/2014 2:24:30 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: CharlesOConnell

It’s a spaghetti middle-eastern?


43 posted on 11/29/2014 2:27:50 PM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Born to Conserve

Yes, the Dudley Moore.


44 posted on 11/29/2014 2:31:43 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Big Mo’s favorite was Mary, a white Coptic Christian. Big Mo (police be upon him) proclaimed the best sex is with white women


45 posted on 11/29/2014 3:39:09 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: CharlesOConnell

I’m a Bond fan and wouldn’t have a problem with a strong black actor in the role. That being said, people should make their own movie and hire who that want. Look at the new Annie with the lead and war bucks (new name) played by black actors. The girl can sign and Jamie Foxx will do fine, so what’s the problem.


46 posted on 11/29/2014 3:42:49 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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All-white Moses row: £90m Ridley Scott epic slammed over lack of black actors playing Egyptians
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3231967/posts


47 posted on 11/29/2014 4:30:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: CharlesOConnell

What a beautiful woman! Boy, am I a sucker for green eyes.


48 posted on 11/29/2014 6:50:11 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Brother Cracker
And God said to Moses,
"All Jews... will have big noses."
49 posted on 11/29/2014 6:53:40 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: CharlesOConnell

You go Rupert....


50 posted on 11/29/2014 6:55:23 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
...but she spoke Egyptian (as well as nine other languages) dressed like an Egyptian, worshiped and ate like an Egyptian and was fully accepted as an Egyptian by her people (or most of them in any case).

But did she Walk Like an Egyptian?

51 posted on 11/29/2014 7:01:18 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: arthurus; Travis McGee; CatherineofAragon; Pelham

Study up

25th dynasty short lived

Not tropical negroid

Kushites......not from Sudan or Ham

Straight haired and aquiline and bronze

Only tropical negroes in Egypt were in servitude

Ramses II...Moses semi grandpa had reddish blonde hair....the proof lies in Cairo

This is all part of the same war

Destroy the political and cultural power of whites...especially Christian

But it even applies now to Egypt...so silly

If you were southern you’d have already felt this yoke on your own cultural neck


52 posted on 11/29/2014 7:05:34 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Sorry. I responded before seeing 45 other people responded the same thing...groan.


53 posted on 11/29/2014 7:05:43 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Kaslin

You’d be surprised how many here are PC suzies about this


54 posted on 11/29/2014 7:06:50 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: wardaddy
These two look like modern Egyptians.


55 posted on 11/29/2014 7:20:10 PM PST by thecodont
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To: thecodont

A week at Sanibel in July and I’m quite darker than either and I’m stone cold Mississippi wood

But I’ll tell you who was part black

Dinah Shore ...famous Nashville Jew from mid last century

Good looking gracious blonde southern woman

I don’t know that she ever claimed to be Egyptian though


56 posted on 11/29/2014 8:14:43 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: LibWhacker

Too bad they couldn’t persuade the angels to let Yul play the role again.


57 posted on 11/29/2014 8:18:01 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: cloudmountain

Well, they speak Arabic, but most Arab-speakers today had ancestors who spoke other languages.It is as if the people of Britain had chosen to given up their own languages for Latin, the language of the Roman conquerer, or taken up Norman French.


58 posted on 11/29/2014 8:25:02 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Like WOW!


59 posted on 11/29/2014 8:25:43 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: SunkenCiv

Usually European actors play Jesus. Mel Gibson went against that by making Jim Caviezel up to look like a Palestinian.


60 posted on 11/29/2014 8:30:04 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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