Politics is a captivating thing to watch, especially when it involves the richest people on the planet. The Murdocks, very powerful right wing politicians such as Cameron and a perceived to be sexy woman, Rebekah Brooks. The beauty factor for Mrs Brooks and the fact she is reported to be the 5th most loved nearly but not daughter to Rupert (doddering-old-codger) Murdock. Maybe it is something to do with her outdated flowing curly red hair, hair which now resembles rusted heavy chains, pulling her down into the depths of deception, which is a place I believe she is quite comfortable to be in.
So out of a desire to be in the know I searched the BBC web site and managed to find the two hour culture select committee interview with Mrs Brooks. I am now think this woman is the most irritating woman I have heard. On three occasions I nearly nodded off to sleep as she droned away, answering questions not with acute journalistic style but more of dithering, struggling and I-will-not-implicate-myself-here format. I saw her prevaricate, I watched her body language closely, how she excessively blinked her eyes, trying to avoid her questioner. I could hear in the tone of her voice and her slow meandering she was holding back facts. She denied knowing things which she must of known. Strike me down if I am wrong but I can only come to the conclusion the performance I saw was of a liar, a manipulator and someone who was not undergoing the same forensic, accusatory tone of questioning she would give were she doing her journalistic role. The select committee were not quite there. They were not on the ball enough or offensive enough. She was there for the breaking but it needed a tenacious rottweiler to do it, and the were not up to the job. More of tenacious collie than rotty. I so wanted one of them to say explicitly "I don't believe what you are saying." She came out of it but that is as far as I would go. Her performance was not impressive, it was defensive and meandering. She avoided questions by her own confusing semantics of what the questions were about, trying to pretend she was answering them. After her performance she is now tarred and nearly feathered. Not quite, nearly. But absolutely one hundred percent the most irritating woman ever.
In the parts of the Murdocks interview I have seen, it is obvious they live on the deferral of responsibility. They dress it up in this ethereal cloud and tell the world it is made of concrete. They are inextricably linked to Mrs Brooks and they know it. Just as they know the world is now examining them under the microscope, except of course Fox News. Of course not, they own Fox. A good a reason as any to say such people should never be allowed a foot in the door way of impartial news, for it is so tainted impartial is a forgotten word. They will support Mrs B, for the reason Rupert loves her as his own. With any luck she will never work in the media again, but maybe in a year or two after the dust has settled her surrogate father will find her something nice, cushy and well paid to land in. Then she can brush all this investigation lark under the carpet shine off her Most Irritation Woman World Cup and start counting her rich fan famous friends in the Chipping Norton Set. Anyone for a party?
Saturday 23 July 2011
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