Murdoch Committee suspended 10 minutes

Source: eg. BBC

1656:

Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi stood up and appeared to strike somebody in defence of her husband.
1655:

Rupert Murdoch appears to have been attacked by somebody in the public gallery.
1654:

The sitting is suspended for 10 minutes - after some kind of disturbance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14193124



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according to the BBC reporter, and the pictures (foam is on the flanner's face, haven't seen pictures of Murdoch)

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1701:

James Murdoch looked shocked that security staff had failed to protect his father properly, Nick Robinson says.
1701:

Nick Robinson says Rupert Murdoch's wife was "up like a shot" to defend her husband.
1659:

BBC political editor Nick Robinson says Rupert Murdoch was apparently hit in the face with a plate of shaving foam by a man shouting: "Greedy."
1657:

A man with white substance - possibly paint - on his face has been taken away by police following the incident.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14193124



I also feel shocked. Violated.

someone with a pie and a pie tin get in to the hearing????

I don't want any instances that could possibly generate sympathy for the ol' bastid. I want this hearing - and all subsequent events, including trials - to go off without a hitch. I will be highly pissed if Murdick gets rewarded for playing the doddering old fool who deserves our mercy.

He is playing that role, to a degree, isn't he.

They're also playing the 'family solidarity' card. Well.



Edit: "Gallipoli", eh? True, that, mates..

http://twitter.com/#!/JonnieMarbles

We had no idea about #piegate. Seems the splatter was acting alone!
http://twitter.com/#!/UKuncut/status/93352602133200896

He should have gone after James if he was going to do it at all.

I thought the pie attack was for people who are getting away with things?

Murdoch is over.

Claims to have read Dickens, eh?

What a good opportunity for them just to walk out (into the arms of their own 'security').

Typical official Brit cock-up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14193124

(I just had to take the cat to the vet for his annual check-up).

Rebecca 'interrogation' now.

Source: NY Daily News

AAAAhhhahahahahhaha!!!

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/07/19/2011-07-19_rupert_murdoch_scandal_media_titan_at_parliament_in_phone_hacking_scandal.html

".... out of the mouths of the babes & the sucklings, come forth words of wisdom ...."; or something like that.

It's kind of similar to the Native American Plains Indians counting coup & giving the finger to their enemies.

Cheers! to Johnny Marbles, latest member of the Shoe-Thrower Hall of Fame.
:toast:

Source: Chortle

Occasional comedian Johnnie Marbles has been arrested after a custard pie attack on Rupert Murdoch during a Commons select committee.

The 80-year-old media mogul was hit with a plate full of shaving foam while giving evidence to the media and culture committee.

Murdoch was protected by his wife Wendi and a female lawyer who leapt to his defence to protect her husband.

Marbles – whose real name is Jonathan May-Bowles – tweeted before the attack: ‘It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat.’


Read more: http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2011/07/19/13656/comedian_held_after_murdoch_attack

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Video of one of his performances at the link.

Also, here's the moment it happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtN2fHm5fdw

wrong thread

immediately followed by his wife giving the guy a right hander.

This photo seems to back that up...

The woman in gray is the real heroine. Mrs. Murdoch (in pink) had to climb around her to deliver her slap, at which point the pieman was already being pulled backward.



:headbang:
rocktivity

I mean, at least hit the old bastard in the face with a real cream pie. He might be hungry!

"Hey I'm so funny, ha ha, ha ha ha...why isn't anyone laughing?"

:eyes:

And believe me, I have no sympathy for Rupert.
I just think this asinine stunt actually slowed down a serious proceeding.

Just think if the pie gets stuck in his throat, and he can't breathe, and he slips and DIES!

:eyes:

It is, for one, the only public justice, pitiful though it is, we will ever see against such a powerful gangster like that. But it is a kind of public shaming act that we won't see otherwise. I just wish we had a full frontal!

It would have been awesome as a real banana cream pie, but I am guessing that it is easier to smuggle in the pieces to quickly put together a shaving foam pie than sneak in a fully made bcp.

The reason why this, and other previous bcp acts, is brilliant is that it works so well on those that feel they are better than everyone else, that they can get away scott free and don't have to account to anyone. When it happens they are usually outraged because some pleb made fun of him in public. And yet on the surface it is harmless, even humourous as it has its roots in comedy, so it leaves the victim with not much recourse. If he insists on prosecution he looks even more like the asshole who deserved it.

"The only public justice we will ever see" -- spot on.

Remember the Bill Gates pieing? I played that clip over and over.

... having seen it happen live on MSNBC. Those Bobbies prancing across the room, so prim and proper, I could swear it was John Cleese of Monty Python. I am still giggling. :yourock:

{GUDUNG CRASH!)

:silly:






(A tad bit better than losing his 'Bowles' I suppose)

and the actual facts. There was no actual custard in the pie. This is very good news to me because custard pie is my favorite and far too delicious to waste on Rupert Murdoch.

if they had reached H2S stage, the old egghead, murdoch, would've felt right at home amidst the aroma.

on a side note, whats with these passe' autocrats having to be protected by female oriental bodyguards? i mean - wendy deng is his wife and all; but, shades of kim il jung, it's like all these petty tyrants have been watching the old Bond movies of Connery vintage, or Austin Powers, for pointers on how to play their roles on the world stage. how cliched can all this get? and what's next on the cards - white furred Persian cats & swimming pools with piranha?

Unfortunately, I am a terrible cook and get mine from the bakery.

Regarding Wendy, the female ninja wannabe, I have read in several places that she really dislikes Rebekah Brooks. However, Rebekah is liked by all the grown up Murdoch children. I bet that makes for interesting conversation at family dinner parties.

plus childhood memories of using the Reckitt's clothes whitener, 'robin blue', mixed with lime juice or vinegar, to generate the smell of rotten eggs in class.
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does this tale vaguely remind you of that other media tycoon - who fell off his yacht in the Atlantic, back in the 80's or 90's? (i don't recall his name; but his first started with an "R").

It was Robert Maxwell. At one time he was an owner of the Daily Mirror and also a member of parliament. He died in 1991 after falling off a yacht. He was definitely a larger than life character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell

> However, Rebekah is liked by all the grown up Murdoch children.

There was a report across several papers last week that Murdoch's daughter
was very scathing at the way that Brooks had "f*cked up the company" ...

security in that place.

Source: la times

The hearing was interrupted when it appeared that someone tried to strike Murdoch, perhaps with shaving cream.



Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/07/murdochs-struggle-to-defend-themselves-before-parliament.html

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Almost Pied

I owe you a pint! :)

Is does our side no good. It's immature.

If it's a Tea Party member to one of ours?

:)

:)

:rofl: :spray:

And his wife Wendy slaps the attacker.

This is becoming a farce.

A pure guttersnipe who slept her way up the social ladder.

The police were only on the look out for bombs, guns, certain fruit and pointy sticks.

"It seems that Murdoch was enraged that the police hadn't prevented
the attack. It made him wonder what he was paying them for ..."

:rofl:

A perfectly fine method of protest is turned into "aggravated assault" in the minds of too many

The "attack" allowed Murdoch to break for 15 minutes and regain his composure. He was getting increasingly frustrated and annoyed by the questioning and it was really starting to show, he kept banging the table when answering questions (that is, when he was answering, he was often left searching for an answer).

Until he got "attacked" he looked like he was going to lose his temper or might just start shouting at MPs in Parliament.

After the "attack" he was far more composed and, since he's an 80 year-old man who has just been hit in the face with a shaving foam pie, actually gained some sympathy plus he's deflected a lot of attention away from him and on to the police (who were also giving evidence today whilst not checking people for cans of shaving foam).

been one of the victims or one of their family members. I might've been OK with it.

was all a touch too convenient for the Dirty Digger.

Despite these antics the hearings did reveal the remarkable fact that NI were still paying one of their Private Investigators legal fees even after he was convicted and sent to prison for phone tapping. Strangely neither Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch or Rebekah Brooks claimed to have any idea who was signing off these payments. Such absence of financial control is most unlike the Murdochs so these statements have raised a few eyebrows amongst the rest of the UK media.

Equally significant James Murdoch did not rule out the possibility that the phones of 9/11 victims and their relatives had been hacked by people paid by NI. If that does not trigger a full investigation by the FBI nothing will.