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Throughout the parliamentary grilling and pie attack, tweeters from around the world tuned in to the scene at London’s Portcullis House and offered their humorous takes on #hackgate. Here are 10 of the best.
Jamie Lovell likens Rupert Murdoch to the nefarious moguls in movies who can simply push a button and make their enemies go away. But on Tuesday, Murdoch had no such powers. Instead he profusely apologized for his newspaper's actions.
Alluding to Simpsons characters, sports journalist Malachy Clerkin says the dynamic of Rupert and James Murdoch was similar to that of clueless mogul C. Montgomery Burns and his right-hand man Waylon Smithers, who's often forced to do his boss's bidding.
The British pop singer chimes in about the elder Murdoch's deference to his son James throughout the parliamentary proceedings. Rupert kept his answers ambiguous and apologetic, while James was forced to dig into the nitty-gritty of the allegations surrounding the News of the World.
The tweeter calling himself Steve Death rips on the Murdochs for their consistently vague answers surrounding the scandal. Rupert repeated during the testimony that he had lost sight of the News of the World because it was a very small part of his News Corp. monolith.
The British comedian evidently snuck in materials for a shaving-cream pie, causing a major disturbance when he made a go at Rupert Murdoch. Just before he attempted to pie the News Corp. CEO, he tweeted his intentions — with a hashtag that didn't quite have the desired onomatopoeic effect.
Jonnie Marbles' clownish pie-in-the-face act should have a follow-up, proposes Ben Hewitt.
After Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng was seen winding up her arm, apparently in defense of her husband as he was approached by a person holding a foam pie, Washington-based writer Chris Albon hypothesized about MP Tom Watson's next statement to the embattled tycoon.
Jenna Wortham, a New York Times tech reporter, sees a windfall of attention sweeping toward Wendi Deng for her leap to Rupert Murdoch's defense in the face of a pie attack.
As Kamahl Santamaria, an al-Jazeera English anchor, points out, wouldn't a foam pie raise a few eyebrows upon moving through the metal detectors and guards?
The CNN host and former News of the World editor sees a silver lining for the Murdochs: despite their heavy grilling by the MPs, the pie-in-the-face incident would dominate the bulk of the news coverage. Morgan was indeed spot-on.
So much for keeping Facebook out of China.
Felix Roque allegedly hacked the email account associated with the website and nixed the domain registration in an effort to muzzle an insurgent political campaign to oust the mayor.
