“Listen to the victorious Rupert Murdoch weep over the way the world has been treating him,” writes Slate’s Jack Shafer, in response to Murdoch’s complaint that he’s had to endure “criticism that is normally leveled at some sort of genocidal tyrant.”

“Not even the dozen Murdoch pieces I’ve written since the announcement of the Dow Jones offer compare Murdoch to Pol Pot, Hitler, or Mao,” Shafer continues. “I have cataloged his various crimes against journalism and called him a ‘rotten old bastard’ a number of times, but that term of endearment couldn’t have possibly penetrated his coarse hide. Or did my offhand comment that ‘any comparison of Murdoch to Stalin was unfair to Stalin’ upset him?”

Nah, we’re guessing Rupert’s grumblings have less to do with something Shafer wrote and more to do with the fact that evil megalomaniacal types generally tend to be sorta cranky.

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