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

it's kind of impressive, how little people care about sleaze any more. is there anything that could actually threaten that little shit's job security?

lol at Guido framing the story in exactly the same way as the NotW did originally - http://order-order.com/2011/09/12/50318/

Wow, that is tremendous.

The nut:

"But if you look at it because there was a nice gloss put on the story and an editorial that effectively gave George Osborne the benefit of the doubt then you could say well, George Osborne was almost indebted to Andy Coulson.

"Andy Coulson had done George Osborne a favour and perhaps it was time for George Osborne to reciprocate and do a favour back."

This story doesn't need 'phone hacking' as an element:

1) Girl tells/sells story to DMirror.
2) Said paper contacts Tory offices regarding story, to make sure it's not totally libellous.
3) GOsb 'confesses' situation to the 'powers-that-be'
4) Powers-that-be say "Don't worry about it, we're on the case"
5) They contact NOTW to draft a safety curtain with as much detail to spike the original slant, and enough editorialising to totally discredit the story's original source.

Same old.

is she saying s.thing new and potentially actionable* that has scared off the uk papers or?

*as they say though, he's never sued anyone over her claims before

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2-5 is total speculation, right?

http://www.britishblogs.co.uk/images/373908.jpg
Think there should be a "Photoshop this image of George Osborne onto other pictures" thread.

need higher res

Or get Private Eye to run it on their letters page every week.

2-5 is total speculation, right?

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2011 11:04 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes, officer. Mods, please add "allegedly" to every line.

I have a friend who knows the ppl of posh world. Years ago she passed along a story abt how the Cam/Osb crowd were friends with a dominatrix. A detail I haven't seen brought up elsewhere is that her pals would occasionally pop in and shit on the chest of clients who liked that sort of thing.

Think there should be a "Photoshop this image of George Osborne onto other pictures" thread.

Think Moira Stuart was wise to obscure her features behind those flowers though. Allegedly.

See, when Barack Obama found himself at a stag do in Wokingham, he was savvy enough to leave before the strippergram arrived.

Sad thing about this is that it shows the awful little sneeze expulsion isn't a racist on top of everything else.

i don't think this is really a gauge of that at all; which isn't to say that he is or isn't, just that whether he is should probably be judged on something less convoluted than 'why some of my preferred dominatrixes are black!'

enh who knows

i do think he should answer the question why he was hot to hire coulson

he'll never say 'bc he did me a solid', but what will he say?

xp

haha yeah

yeah despite her dominatrixing, the power relationship here runs along pretty traditional contours

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'bc he did me a solid'

I hope this is not a reference to some of the services offered by Ms. Rowe's colleagues, as mentioned upthread.

Better that than "he did me a sloppy".

There isn't actually anything much here at all except the lols and the direct connection between the prostitute photo and Coulson. We knew about George, cocaine and prostitutes, we knew that Newscorp and Coulson were positively spinning things to suit the Tories, we knew that Cameron wouldn't have hired him if he hadn't.

I assume this is one of those things that gets roundly ignored by the mainstream media who are terrified of the lawsuits until such time as it's all over the internet and they can do so with impunity.

There isn't actually anything much here at all except the lols and the direct connection between the prostitute photo and Coulson.

it's a Good Story though, a good theory: why did osborne back the toxic coulson? one might ask. this is a plausible reason.

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oh - 'her pals' in my previous post was not meant to imply fellow sex workers; I meant the tories she knew.

Oh It's An Amazing Story.

... but I'm assuming they were, uh, delivering the solids services to said Tories? Scatological rumours never go out of fashion it seems.

shit happens.

What's in that aerosol in the photo? Seems like a strange item to be sitting on the table.

Imagine these, uh, encounters get a bit smelly

https://images.jmcatalog.com/prdimgs/Mes3et674/MESS/MESS3.JPG

wait so she'd bring in tories she knew to shit on other clients? metaphorical fetishes, i like it.

to clarify, as I understand it: the tories would be hanging out at their dominatrix friend's place. A client would come to see her, & presumably be taken to a private room. The client likes being pooed upon. At some point, someone – presumably not the client (one imagines him masked) – decides it would be a laugh for one of the young tories to do the chest-pooing instead of the dominatrix. Then, as Mark says, shit happens.

yes, i mean i don't know if the details really hang together but I have had faith in the story ever since I heard it.

Has it been confirmed anywhere yet that Paul McBride is defending Coulson? Only seen it as a rumour.

I'm sure I read it in a news report last week sometime, can't remember where.

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/261888-andy-coulson-hires-former-sheridan-lawyer/

Damian McBride would have been funnier

grauniad has reported the story

And the Telegraph now.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8757740/Phone-hacking-Andy-Coulson-helped-spin-story-of-George-Osborne-and-dominatrix.html
Cabinet re-shuffle ahoy!

if only

News International chairman James Murdoch will be recalled to give evidence on phone hacking to the culture committee, its chairman John Whittingdale has said.

The decision comes after MPs heard conflicting evidence over how much Mr Murdoch knew about the practice at one of News International's papers.

Separately, it has emerged the mother of a 7/7 bombing victim is to pursue a civil case against News International over alleged phone hacking.

a quantum of pwnage

odds he might be a bit busy this time round?

Renault has u-turned on its decision to boycott advertising in all News International titles following the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World that led to the paper’s closure.

The car marque, which became the only advertiser to boycott a News International title beyond the News of the World in July as a result of the “seriousness” of the phone hacking allegations, says it has now reviewed its advertising plans following a series of discussions with the publisher.

A Renault spokesman says: “News International has apologised for the wrongdoing committed. We have sought and received reassurances that they are fully and actively co-operating with the Metropolitan Police enquiry, that they welcome a broad inquiry into press and police standards and that they are reviewing their internal procedures and practices to prevent such serious problems arising again.”

va va cunts

whoa http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/16/phone-hacking-met-court-order

An obscure clause – section 5 – of the 1989 Official Secrets Act, highly controversial at the time of its passing, allows individuals to be prosecuted for passing on "damaging" information leaked to them by government officials in breach of section 4 of the same act. This includes police information "likely to impede … the prosecution of suspected offenders".

The clause is aimed at those who deliberately derail investigations by, for example, tipping off a suspect about an impending police raid. But it is being used in this case in an unprecedented way, against individual journalists for publishing a news article. The Guardian's reporters did not pay any police officers.

yeesh

brazen.

should have tried the "you should tell us who your source is so we can disappear them give them a medal!" tactic instead imo

it worked so well in infernal affairs after all.

Milly Dowler's family offered a £2m settlement: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14975549