***** OFFICIAL British Parliamentary Hearing on Murdoch Media Scandal LIVEBLOG Part III *****

[L. Coyote]

http://www.democracynow.org/

Ruppy "I forget" OH Fish LLL thread part 2
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1520692

[malaise]

1. Is this thread three

please post links to the other two threads

[Dappleganger]

2. Please put "Part 3" in your thread title so we can continue to follow

and others will know there are two other threads which are full. Also please post links to those other two threads. Thanks.

[L. Coyote]

3. Done

[malaise]

5. Lil Jimmy appears to think that pops is a

doddering old fool who can't answer anything

[KurtNYC]

6. he is burning clock time

telling nice happy stories

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Is there anything that has to be taken to the top? A. Only a crisis

A. This is just a tiny part of my business

- Rupert

[Botany]

7. Jimmy it also about the delegating

He must have dropped delegating 5 times in 2 minutes ..... aka other people did this stuff

[KurtNYC]

8. "to my knowledge certain things were not known"

how do you know that you don't know something? unless you know what you "don't know."

[Botany]

12. but things were delegated so he didn't know what he ...

.... knew.

[beac]

13. shades of Donald Rumsfeld...

known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns

:crazy:

[JBoy]

18. The person responsible is somewhere north, south, east or west of me.

[KurtNYC]

15. Murdoch is looking very Montgomery Burns

to James' Smithers.

[valerief]

19. Bwah! Perfect! nt

[valerief]

17. RummySpeak. nt

[KansDem]

22. Perhaps he was channeling Rumsfeld?

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.

[GliderGuider]

9. If Jimmy uses the term "rest on" one more time....

:nuke:

[WinkyDink]

10. Murdoch Threads 1 and 2:

1: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1520246&mesg_id=1520246

2: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1520692#1521277

[Aerows]

11. I love them being pinned down like insects for a science project

They are so clearly lying, and the committee members are plainly stating their skepticism.

[Ruby the Liberal]

14. Accusations of nepotism (do you regret your choices)

[tridim]

16. My takeaway so far.. Republicans (Conservatives) should not be legally allowed to run companies

They admittedly don't know anything, ever. In every case they succeed only by breaking the rules.

Same deal on both sides of the pond.

[Ruby the Liberal]

20. Rupe - People don't have a right to expect privacy

"Nope" when asked.

This guy is pathalogical.

[Dappleganger]

21. Ooooooh, he said "Watergate!"

[Ruby the Liberal]

23. Continuing "We are an even more open society than the US"

[Ruby the Liberal]

24. Why is he yammering on about Singapore?

[WinkyDink]

28. Murdoch likes the Totalitarian Business model. No gum-chewing!

[Botany]

29. James (direct quote)

Well, it is a question and it is an important question one that is to be a subject ...... :puke:

you can't make this shit up.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

25. "GOOD LUCK SELLING THAT.

Rofl.

[beac]

26. Yes, Rup, a free and open society depends on knowing

who Jude Law is screwing. :eyes:

[CleanGreenFuture]

27. James' stuttering is burning up a lot of time.

[WinkyDink]

30. Dumb like a fox.

[WinkyDink]

31. WTH cares about your old man, Rupert? He's SPINNING, now.

[CleanGreenFuture]

33. Lamenting about what he wants for his children.

[Ruby the Liberal]

32. Rupert wishes them to leave him alone.

[malaise]

36. Rupert clearly has signs of dementia

Why did this scumbag have so many people living in fear?

[terip64]

40. I think it is an act. n/t

[Botany]

34. did Ruppy just talk about Gallipol?

A WW I battle please :rofl:

between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916, (Wiki)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

35. WTF is this now?!! They're just letting spew bullshit talking points. nt

[WinkyDink]

37. "As a, as a, as a....and, and, and...um...."

[Safetykitten]

38. If I had to listen to that fucking toad speak at work...hideous.

[WinkyDink]

39. Collins's questions give softball a bad name. "Have you been frustrated?"

[beac]

41. "I'm frustrated b/c my daddy's empire might collapse before I get to be KING!"

[KurtNYC]

someone attacked murdoch !

they grabbed someone, suspended the hearing for 10 mins. Just heard "Whoa!" and saw the cop rush over.

[KurtNYC]

52. Line 4 the wilson room...

are they hacked right now!?

[Ruby the Liberal]

42. What just happened?

[obama14]

45. Attacked.

Looks like someone tried to attack him.

[Safetykitten]

43. What happened? On a related note, is British art that bad?

[cal04]

47. guardian: Someone has just tried to attack Rupert Murdoch.

Someone has just tried to attack Rupert Murdoch. His wife Wendi seemed to slap the person.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/19/phone-hacking-rupert-murdoch-rebekah-brooks-mps

4.58pm: The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg thinks it's a bandage on the young man's face – Nick Robinson says it is shaving foam and the young man hit Rupert Murdoch with it.

4.57pm: The suspect looks like he has a substance like white paint on his face.

My colleague Jackie Ashley tells Twitter: "Wendi can throw quite a punch."

4.56pm: The BBC says the young man has been handcuffed. Sky showed the footage again – it seemed to be an attack from Rupert Murdoch's left.

4.55pm: A young man in a checked shirt has been detained by police.

4.54pm: Someone has just tried to attack Rupert Murdoch. His wife Wendi seemed to slap the person.

[Dappleganger]

51. Yes, you could see her hitting back (she's in pink).

I couldn't see who lunged at him.

[Safetykitten]

61. Don't be fucking with my meal ticket!

[malaise]

55. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

hahahaahaha -the greatest summer show ever :rofl:

[Aerows]

44. What the hell just happened

Someone tried to attack them?

[Aerows]

48. Probably staged by Murdoch

to curry sympathy. I know I'm terrible, but I've never been to cynical before LOL.

[Aerows]

50. currying sympathy by attacking them

Murdoch paid. You know they always do such things.

[Dappleganger]

54. Agreed, Breitbart learned from the best.

[Aerows]

57. Yep

More chaos just to make it a circus, to detract from the questioning.

[WinkyDink]

46. Keith and John Dean comment: http://www.thertv.com/41

http://www.thertv.com/41

[WinkyDink]

49. They're lucky it wasn't the tumbrels.

[dipsydoodle]

53. Suspended for 10 minutes due to distruption

That was just as the dead lady next to Uncle Festus had starting asking questions.

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.

Times are British Summer Time.

Yes his wife did leap to his defense. So much for fucking security over here. :(

Rupert Murdoch looks to have white paint on him. Turns out its foam.

[Safetykitten]

58. And live rat snack break for the creepy old reptile.

[Aerows]

59. I'd bet money

that it was a paid "attack" to give them a chance to get their shit together and garner sympathy. These dudes are so dirty, I wouldn't expect anything different. You know they have security out of the ass, and whomever attacked was passed through.

[dipsydoodle]

62. Don't be ridiculous.

.

[beac]

66. WHY do you think that's "ridiculous"??? The Murdochs are

capable of ANYTHING and could use a little ginned up sympathy about now.

Or were you being sarcastic?

[dipsydoodle]

69. No I wasn't being sarcastic.

They'd have a job fixing that given they should have been out of the building ages ago.

[beac]

74. Um, the same is true of the attacker, dipsy.

Perhaps a good moment hadn't arisen yet? And/or his instructions were "Once we go over 2 hours, pie me!"

[dipsydoodle]

81. I'm appalled at our security for this event

:hi:

[beac]

86. That we can agree on!

:hi:

The earlier situation w/people holding signs should have given them a clue that they needed a few more bobbies at the door.

[dipsydoodle]

88. Bobbies ....lol

Found thus :

@JonnieMarbles Jonnie Marbles
It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat
26 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone

That's the guy who did it.

[Aerows]

117. Ridiculous

This is all agent provocateur to garner sympathy.

[Aerows]

115. It's like questioning

people putting paint on the wall to cover blood as gentle craftsmen just doing a job.

[Aerows]

106. If you think that's ridiculous

Agent provocateur?

Are you claiming they do not exist?

:rofl:

[KurtNYC]

56. check the BBC's audio right now

http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_8167000/8167511.stm

Line 4 the wilson room...

[Nostalgic]

60. I only saw that b!tch Wendy slap someone.

Aww man, they had to cut away just when it was getting good.

[L. Coyote]

63. Shaving cream attack is a FAIL! KO commenting now:

http://www.thertv.com/41

[Hubert Flottz]

114. Next up Rupie's pet scape goat...

[Ruby the Liberal]

64. From The Guardian

4.57pm: The suspect looks like he has a substance like white paint on his face.

My colleague Jackie Ashley tells Twitter: "Wendi can throw quite a punch."

4.56pm: The BBC says the young man has been handcuffed. Sky showed the footage again – it seemed to be an attack from Rupert Murdoch's left.

4.55pm: A young man in a checked shirt has been detained by police.

4.54pm: Someone has just tried to attack Rupert Murdoch. His wife Wendi seemed to slap the person.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

65. Somebody tried to "pie" Rupert with shaving cream.

[Gin]

67. CNN saying it got him right in the face....ha!

[Dappleganger]

68. Any pics yet?

Momma needs a new desktop picture.

[Ruby the Liberal]

72. ^^ THIS ^^

:rofl:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

73. BBC is replyaing the "attack". He didn't reach Rupert - no harm done.

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

[Ruby the Liberal]

82. He must have got him. No longer wearing his suit jacket (everyone else still is)

[Ruby the Liberal]

70. Dude nailed Murdoch with a pie plate full of shaving cream before Wendi slapped him

OMG this is PRICELESS

:rofl:

[malaise]

78. The best summer series ever

:rofl:

This is way too good.

[L. Coyote]

80. Assault lawsuit against Wendi?

Isn't it illegal to slap people?

[L. Coyote]

71. Turn to DemocracyNow for live feed of suspect being cleaned up by police

http://www.democracynow.org/

on edit: They just broke again. Suspect in handcuffs, sans pies.

Back to KO and John Dean here: http://www.thertv.com/41

[spinbaby]

77. He's against circumcision?

According to the Guardian:

Jonnie Marbles has tweeted that he is the man responsible.

He is a UK Uncut activist.

[Gin]

84. god...we couldn't write this stuff..

[Spider Jerusalem]

85. Nope

"UK Uncut" is a group protesting the budget cuts in the name of austerity (and also protesting tax avoidance by corporations and the wealthy).

[spinbaby]

99. That's kind of too bad

Anti circumcision would have been the icing on the cake.

[Spider Jerusalem]

119. Circumcision is very uncommon in Britain

it isn't a routine procedure; apart from Jews and Muslims who circumcise for religious reasons, it's only really common among the upper social classes (in part because the NHS doesn't perform circumcisions except for medical necessity).

[libodem]

118. Spider

Nice to see ya, around.

[Safetykitten]

75. Now the Kudos to the old shithead...you brave man!

[Gin]

79. Rupert took his jacket off...so...some foam got him..

[L. Coyote]

76. LIVE feeds are now back.

[KurtNYC]

83. hopefully there are no more pies as Rupe is down to his shirt already

[Ruby the Liberal]

87. Piers Morgan! She is quoting his book on how he hacked a phone and won an award.

[beac]

89. Wow! She is really trying to give him coverage in the form of a "question"!

Isn't it true that your employees were no worse than those of other papers and that you couldn't possibly have known about that?

What a joke!

[beac]

91. And now she's suggesting they sue their lawyers!

Is she on the News Corp payroll????????

[Gin]

90. someone put a pie in his face...please

[KurtNYC]

92. shes not asking about the future

[Skidmore]

93. James Murdoch suggesting that the whole operation is ethical and

adheres to the highest journalistic standards sure makes for good comedy.

[sakabatou]

94. "You are the captain of the ship..."

A pirate ship...

[WinkyDink]

95. "Mr. Murdoch, have you considered resigning?" "No."

[Dappleganger]

97. He's in serious denial...

[KurtNYC]

96. "I'm the best person to clean this up" - R Murdoch

the buck stops one level below me

[Ruby the Liberal]

98. Mr Murdoch - will you resign? No.

Why not?

"People let me down and it is up to them to pay. I am the best person to clean this up."

What an ego.

[malaise]

100. Why is he being allowed to read this stupid statement

Go Cheney yourself Rupert.

[beac]

102. Yeah, he's "sickened" and "angry" alright...

that they got caught! :mad:

[myrna minx]

103. He's not sorry - and he's acting like *he's* the victim.

:puke:

[beac]

104. He thinks he IS the victim.

"Boo-hoo, they are making me lie about how much I care about ethics."

[myrna minx]

108. LOL - "NO excuses" - except for when you blame everyone else as well as the

sheer size of your empire. :eyes:

[WinkyDink]

101. Oh, Rupie is layin on the Aussie accent thickly now. You're no Curtis Stone!

[Gin]

109. cooperating with the police....I think it's the other way around.

[GliderGuider]

105. Did old Rupe just throw Jimmy under the bus?

"Oh, and James too, of course,,,"

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

107. Oh I feel fucking sick..... I think I'm gonna...

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[WinkyDink]

110. "I thought this matter had been settled.....James thought so, too." TOUGH S***.

[Aerows]

111. agent provocateur

Pie facing him to disrupt Mensch's harsh questioning. She had some hard questions that got squelched by the circus.

If you believe that security isn't capable of handling that, you are a fool. They paid someone to get through security and do it.

[L. Coyote]

112. Five minute break until testimony of Rebecca Brooks from under Murdoch's bus.

[WinkyDink]

113. Bwah! KO just called R&J "Burns & Smithers," and Rebecca is "Side-show Bob"!

[L. Coyote]

116. ***** OFFICIAL British Parliamentary Hearing on Murdoch Media Scandal LIVEBLOG Part IV *****

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1522028