The Official Newscorp/UK end of season finale/Rebekah Brooks did 9/11 thread

http://www.alanconnor.com/log/2011/murdoch-pie-attack-i-was-there/

re: pie-thrower, i can't help but think...dude is only 26? he looks FKN AWFUL for his age :o

Mensch was saying to Jon Snow last night, in a comically diplomatic/poker-faced way that she was not a member of the 1922 committee because it is "not...really...representative of the views of MPs from my intake"

P big achievement to look like a more haggard version of Ricky Gervais while being 24 years younger than Ricky Gervais I guess

it is still amazing to me that somehow he managed to get the pie right in his own face

the guy has more talent than we thought i guess

that was wendi! after she slapped him she threw the plate back at him

They should be on a reboot of It's A Knockout.

All the "Thanks alot, pie idiot!" is a little OTT. I bet the hearing are getting more coverage today because of that stunt. No doubt even the articles that mainly focus on the pie are still explaining what it's all about, the non-pie aspect of it. The internet loves a backlash tho....

I don't think it's so much serious belief that it will have "played into RM's hands" or w/e, more just that it was a big deal to see him finally held to account and not the kind of thing you want derailed by facile student flashmob idiot shit

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/20/why-i-foam-pied-rupert-murdoch

Can't remember if this has been posted already? "Jonnie Marbles received no fee for this article" was funny, don't want another Max Gogarty on your hands

He said he "did it for all the people who couldn't", to which one of the 780-odd radged off commenters said "nobody asked you to"

I think "why I foam-pied Murdoch" as an article title still gives him too much credit, he got it on his jacket then got battered and pied by his wife, right?

the response might be OTT, because the internet sure loves a pile-on, but the anger is valid. the hearing didn't need any publicity, at least not in the UK. it was already top of the news material. today's stories should have been exclusively examining what the Murdochs and Brooks said to Parliament, and how it stands up to what we already know, and where the investigation will go next. instead a section of the press, especially the Murdoch-controlled section, has been able to change the focus of attention ever so slightly to the adventures of some mook who is so unbearable in real life that he has to pull softcore shite like this - and still fails at it - in order to get the attention he clearly craves.

If politics is all about tactics then this cunt is the Leeroy Jenkins of the anti News Corp movement.

my objections to him are as much aesthetic as political. oh you threw a cream pie how ~wacky~ and ~playful~ YOU CUNT.

This bit from a Forbes article I read is fuckin' killer:

At Rupert Murdoch's tabloids, refusing to play ball meant being pushed to the sidelines. One reporter who said he went through that was Charles Begley, News of the World's Harry Potter correspondent in 2001 when Brooks was its editor.

The then 29-year-old reporter said he wore a Harry Potter costume to work and officially changed his name to that of the fictional boy wizard, all part of the paper's attempt to tap into the Pottermania sweeping both sides of the Atlantic.

On Sept. 11, hours after the fall of the Twin Towers, Begley was stunned to be chewed out by News of the World management for not wearing his costume. He said he was then ordered to attend the next news meeting in full Potter regalia.

Shaken by the demand, Begley never showed up, and soon afterward parted ways with the paper.

Marbles didn't do it to protest against Murdoch, he did it to promote his 'comedy' act. Fuck him. It was one step below two old time music hall guys bursting in and going "I say I say I say" "I do not wish to know that, kindly leave the inquiry!"

I am still laughing at the idea of a Harry Potter correspondent.

Marbles is sub-Custos at best.

luckily, he's so obviously talentless and unlikeable that there's no actual danger that he'll successfully ca-
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2009/3/6/1236368746637/Piers-Morgan-001.jpg

lol

apparently CNN is going big on the murdochs, but very very small on their man piers having been a NOTW editor?

I hate Piers Morgan, not least because for a second he made me feel amiable towards Jeremy Clarkson (who punched Morgan).

Reasonably straightforward here:

ExNOTWjourno2 Marie X
It's Oh So Quiet... For Now. Not Tomorrow.

She'd already indicated another major arrest this week was in the cards.

I still don't understand why/how he is employed by CNN.

finding someone to step into larry king's shoes is like asking someone to put on a used condom

Now imagine Piers Morgan reading the Bible to Homer Simpson as the latter waits for death.

ok genuine lol @ goole

finding someone to step into larry king's shoes is like asking someone to put on a used condom

this is such a successful, succinctly gross image that i'm surprised it isn't part of the vernacular

http://clatl.com/images/blogimages/2011/07/20/1311176432-19_dengslap.gif

Courtesy of Atlanta's Creative Loafing.

Some quality outraged standing-up by Louise Mensch there.

That one guy in the suit that barges thru from the right, he doesn't really help much does he?

haha

Whatderyouthinkyerdooinmissy?

Damn the Sky News logo getting in the way there tbh

Mensch is probably thinking 'Enter Flanman'.

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Rumor mill stuff re: the hacking on Monday:

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2011/07/lulzec-news-international-emails/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG7IURgryjA

it is interesting how much closer this has got to cameron on account of the incremental newsbreaks that've happened in the past few weeks; tomorrow's headlines are about his dinners with the NI people. it is really up his ass now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsJwM1DnLu4

who's telling the truth here? was she directly quoting from his book? always a pleasure to see piers morgan squirming, mind

Morgan was telling the truth, in that she misquoted his book horribly. Whether he was telling the truth on the broader point that the allegations are incorrect remains to be seen.

ok thanks, feel uneasy siding with morgan but to claim a direct quote and be lying, in such circumstances, is kindof wow

Especially because she's legally protected by saying it in Parliamentary business. She will not repeat the allegation outside the HoP because INSTANT LIBEL.

The moment at 5:33 where she says "Oh, I'm so scared" is too funny though.

Surely you mean, "I'm tho thcared."

Probably bad fact-checking rather than a deliberate attempt to lie. There's a suggestion that she picked the idea up from the Guido Fawkes blog and didn't bother to verify whether it was true. Watching her fail to admit that is amazing, though.

It's an extraordinary performance - defensive to the point of being genuinely childish. She appears to be wearing a Metallica lanyard so one bonus point for that though.

any reports on the outcome of the 1922 committee meeting yet?

i was disappointed to hear about their show of support for him at the start; i'd think that, even with how close it's got to him, the trigger for a putative cameron departure would still have to come from losing the confidence of his own party. i'd thought being summoned to 1922 was an indication of this.

Private Eye suggesting that the provenance of the Sunday Mirror's scoops on Rio Ferdinand and Angus Deayton around the same time may also be dodgy. Richard Wallace was involved and now edits the Mirror, with the Eye banging the drum for him to be summoned to give evidence given Piers' evasiveness

Interested to see who the first non-News International guys to get outed in this will be . If there's a god up there there's surely gotta be tidal wave of shit heading for the Mail at some point

xp I don't think he was summoned - it was already arranged. Also, Bagshawe is Bunty.

Yeah, think Mensch told Jon's No it was a regular thing that had been postponed because of the various goings on?

She appears to be wearing a Metallica lanyard so one bonus point for that though.

She married Metallica/Chili Peppers manager Peter Mensch a couple of weeks ago - was chick lit "author" Louise Bagshawe until then

I can't see Cameron resigning or the party moving against him unless he has been careless and hard evidence comes out that he was involved more directly than we know. It may weaken his position given the serious lack of judgement in hiring Coulson and cavorting with Wade. Barring something spectacular it usually takes more than one bit of mud to take down a political leader.