Rupert Murdoch Calls Phone Hacking Victims 'Scumbags'

Rupert Murdoch, Twitter user extraordinaire, has fired off a doozy of a tweet. As you can see, Murdoch didn’t appreciate members of the Hacked Off group talking with the UK’s Prime Minister, David Cameron. Hacked Off consists of some celebrities — such as Hugh Grant — who had their phones hacked by News of The World. It’s a group dedicated to gaining an accountable UK media, in response to the phone hacking scandal.

Murdoch immediately faced backlash for the comment and so he backed off a bit, explaining to one person, “never referred to any particular people, just some ‘dodgy’ self promoting celebrities.”

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