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Wendi Murdoch (in the pink suit) lunges towards a man trying to attack her husband during a meeting with British Parliament in London on Tuesday.
In an already dramatic meeting with British Parliament, today a protester hurled a foam pie at embattled media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Luckily for Murdoch, the exec’s wife, Wendi, jumped to his defense by swiftly punching the guy in the head, blocking the full on foam attack. (Check out the slow-mo version). Murdoch walked away with no more than a messy suit jacket.
Member of Parliament Tom Watson, who was seated on the committee at the time of the incident, was so impressed with Mrs. Deng's reaction he remarked, "Mr. Murdoch, your wife has a very good left hook." Perhaps it’s from her days as a volleyball-player in China.
The man taking credit for the attack is British comedian Jonnie Marbles. He cleverly coined the hash-tag "#splat" for in a pre-pie throwing tweet. Police hand-cuffed him and took him away right after the incident. Though, it’s unclear how he even got in.
During the proceedings, the 80-year-old Murdoch denied any wrong-doing or responsibility in the hacking scandal. He said he was "shocked, appalled and ashamed" by actions of the now-shuttered News of the World tabloid.
He defiantly answered "no" when asked if he should step down. When members of Parliament raised questions concerning recent allegations victims of 9/11 may have had their phones hacked as well, Murdoch confidently replied, "We have seen no evidence of that at all and as far as we know the FBI haven't either."
The widely covered inquiry, which Murdoch referred to today as "the most humble day of my career," comes after countless allegations of phone-hacking practices carried out by Murdoch's company, News Corp (also the parent company of Fox News). Along with tapping into the voicemails of countless celebrities and politicians, News of the World was accused of hacking into and deleting the voicemails of missing 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002, leading law enforcement officers and the Dowler family to believe she was alive. Dowler was later found dead.
— By Harry Grabow
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Forget about Murdoch's crime, lets talk about Dick Cheney hacking US Intelligence and citizens. This criminal was selling US National Security details to Murdoch, Fox News, Lymbough, Drudge and other terrorists. Where is the US Congress, Obama Administration and Justice Department to deal with this relevant crime. Lymbough even took time off to erase his fingerprints and Cheney's DNA splashed on all conservative anti -government propaganda.
Cheney is either perfected coated with teflon or knows where everybody's body is buried. He's never been touched. He defied a court order to release the minutes of the energy committee he chaired, nothing. If I wanted to get away with anything I would call Dick.
they are all to busy meeting in the oval office with nbc man jeffry imelt.where do you think. oh and george soros.
Murchdoch cannot have it both ways.
1. he is a feeble-minded old man who was duped by a conspiracy of his employees to use the exact same dirty tricks in all his properties.
2. he is fully fit to continue managing his empire and to root out the corruption.
When he said "I am not responsible", there are many ways to take that:
1. I have no conscience. I behave irresponsibly.
2. I didn't do it. Someone else did.
3. The buck does not stop on my desk.
(1) is the only interpretation that makes any sense.
Another sinister and far reaching thing Mr. Murdoch has done is he lifted through his influence the affirmative action like media accountability where networks (TV) had to employ in lead roles more diverse actors (actors of color) Murdoch had one of his minions get the leadership of the body that governs those things (FCC) lifting accountability which opened the flood gates of essentially white washing media especially television if you look at the last 10 years it has been disgraceful. Then the kid who successfully lead this change left his post and now works for News Corp. It's evil. Forgive me for not naming names or being more specific because it happened and I am still feeling the pain.
Maybe Larry can look into Rupert giving money to the Obama campaign back in 2008 or News Corp's PAC donating more money to Pelosi and Schumer as well in 2010.