his news corporation. you have an entire british public that feels like something has been uncovered here and they re finally going to get a moment where james and rupert have to sit down and answer for themselves and for all of these business practices that have sort of intimidated and terrorized a whole country. rupert murdoch s got to go! the murdoch entourage arrives with rupert and james. you have wendy dane sitting alongside rupert. here was this man whose power was so famous that so many people were frightened of and yet he s just the kind of balding guy in a shabby suit with spectacles and there was this possibility of finally confronting him with the thing that he had to most fear, which was the truth. good afternoon, everybody.
plateful of shaving cream or something in rupert murdoch s face. all the people around rupert kind of spring up, but no one springs up more aggressively than wendy dane. she jumps up. she swings at this guy and it s just pandemonium. the idiot with the shaving cream completely dispelled all of the tension. he created sympathy for an 80- year-old man who was being assaulted. mr. murdoch, your wife has a very good left hook. this was, of course, an enormously entertaining moment, but what it meant ultimately was that the headlines the next day were not about all the things that the murdochs said and didn t say during this hearing, but, in fact, about this shaving cream thrown in rupert murdoch s face. most say the murdochs gave as good as they got. the general consensus is the