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News Corp Chairman & CEO Rupert Murdoch made a rumble at the Milken Institute Global Conference.

Murdoch told the audience...

"I'm a supporter of President Bush, but I do believe he's a bad -- or inadequate -- communicator."

... Bush is "persuasive, strong and articulate" but that "he seems to freeze whenever a television camera appears."

Motioning to Paul Gigot, editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, Murdoch said, "Apart from your newspaper and mine, there's a sort of monolithic attack on him every day of the year."

..."The atmosphere is absolutely toxic," Murdoch said of the partisanship of U.S. politics and much of the media.

...Murdoch also lamented a U.S. populace that can't agree on how serious a threat militant Islam is, and he suggested skepticism about the danger of man-made global warning.

And the scientific community is united in that.

...Murdoch said that "alleged climate changes" and other problems are far more manageable than is the threat of Islamic terror, which will worsen significantly if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons.

"It's a tragedy that we're not more united" in the war on terror.

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