Splat! Rupert Murdoch Pied

By: EW News Desk Team   Date: 20 July 2011

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20 July 2011

Rupert Murdoch was attacked during a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday by an angry protestor - with a pie. The CEO was called a "greedy billionaire" by the 26 year old man who tossed a shaving cream pie at the CEO of News Corporation.

Murdoch appeared stunned but unharmed.

In a report from CNN;

Murdoch's wife, Wendi Deng, who was seated behind him, leapt to her feet and smashed the attacker's hand with her own.

A police officer arrested the protester, identified by the British Press Association as a man known as "Jonnie Marbles" on the social networking service Twitter. CNN wasn't able to independently verify the man's identity.

"It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before," someone using the account posted before the attack, adding the word "splat" as a hashtag, or a term used to categorize and search for posts on Twitter.

The incident forced an abrupt recess in the Culture, Media and Sport Committee hearing, called to gather Murdoch's testimony on the phone-hacking scandal involving journalists who worked for the British subsidiary of News Corp., which Murdoch controls.

House of Commons Speaker John Bercow was "very concerned" about the incident, according to a spokeswoman.

"It is wholly unacceptable that a member of the public should treat a witness in this way," the spokeswoman said.

See the video and find out what really happened in parliament for yourself:


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