Splat! Rupert Murdoch Pied

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.

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.

[quote]”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.[/quote]

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.

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