Despite Murdochs Snr and sprog enduring three hours of questioning by British MPs, only Mrs Murdoch Snr landed a telling blow – literally – thumping a protester who’d managed to smuggle a classic slapstick prop, a foam pie, into the hearing. He landed the pie on Rupert Murdoch, Wendi Deng landed a good right hook then hit him with his own pie. The Marx Brothers would have been proud.
The protester, a man going by the name – on Facebook at least – of Jonnie Marbles, managed to achieve the opposite of his intentions. Following his departure in handcuffs and a brief clean-up session, Rupert Murdoch reappeared without his stained jacket. In shirt sleeves, he far better resembled a cross between grizzled newsman and aged prize fighter. Still ready to scrap for what he wanted, and with a smidgeon of sympath on his side after the attack, he seemed much more relaxed as he took control of the questioning.
