Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn.

[johnny9fingers]

Well, the first half score seems 3-0 to the Murdochs.

This could well be because the folk that sit on House of Commons committees are, um, all a bit dim,  or the prospect of being on the telly went to their heads. I have some thoughts.

I think Ol' Roops has found his true heir. James seems pretty good under pressure.

I think that the UK gets the representatives it deserves. Our MP's sitting on these committees seem all um, a trifle lacking.

Also I have to take my hat off to the Ol' Bastard. The moment it dawned on him that he wasn't going to have to:

1) sacrifice the anointed
2) play the senile old fool
3) compromise himself in any way whatsoever

he collected himself and performed like the octogenarian Antipodean-born business equivalent of Oscar Wilde at his first trial.

I also think I'm inclined to be on the side of the clever-think-on-their-feet-intelligent-bastards, than the slightly dim not-quite-to-the-point elected representatives of a slightly-dim-and-not-quite-to-the-point-anti-intellectual voting public. And I've always had a soft spot for Aussies.

I'm now so bored by the inadequacies of the folk who govern us that I really would consider taking a job from Roops, and at least be on the winning side.

Jeez. If no-one lands a polite-yet-telling blow in the second half, or there is no proper and corroborated evidence forthcoming, it's all over. And from the depths of defeat Roops and James have snatched a stunning victory.

Of course, we are all diminished by this: but so what?

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[david-deacon.livejournal.com]

They are going to have to find someone more sympathetic than Murdoch. If they can. We have had demogogues in the US: it took Edward R. Murrow (patron saint of US broadcasters) and the (then) chief legal representative of the US Army, Joseph Welch, to bring Joseph McCarthy down. Someone will get Murdoch, and I don't mean some gatecrasher with a pie-tin full of meringue.

[retrofire.livejournal.com]

It's just a show put on to create the desired illusion, for Murdoch to have the opportunity to tell the public what he wants us to believe, but the damage to Cameron is already done. Murdoch is very amusing in his role as innocent and humbled.