Murdoch Slams 'Aloof' Obama, Loves iPad

Rupert Murdoch kicked off the New York Forum economic conference last night with swipes at President Obama, environmentalists, and America's immigration system. The media mogul, on a panel discussing corporate reinvention with other business leaders, said, "it's irresponsible of President Obama—I shouldn't say corrupt—to seemingly stand aloof on various important issues while focusing only on a select few," Forbes reports.

Murdoch described health care reform as "a fiction" and declared himself a climate change skeptic. Immigration policy is "an absolute scandal," he said, lamenting a lack of visa for entrepreneurs. One of the few things he did have a good word for was the iPad, BusinessWeek notes. "This is a fantastic invention,” he said. “It combines the ability to present all forms of media to all people, from 3-year-old children to 100-year-old men." (More President Obama stories.)