Why should you know them? Because you’ll need to distract people who lost their asses today in the stock market, that’s why. Or maybe you’re just tired of hearing Jenny from accounting blather endlessly about her stupid kids. Or OR you talk to angels and they feel horribly out of the loop, consumed as they are with harp lessons and baking cupcakes for God and protecting idiot mortals from themselves.
Regardless, you’re welcome.
While being questioned by Parliament on Tuesday about the allegations of phone hacking by at least one of his newspapers, News Corp’s CEO Rupert Murdoch was hit in the face with a plate of foam by Jonnie Marbles, a self-proclaimed comedian and activist.
Whether or not you agree with the action, what was really awesome was how Rupert’s wife, Wendi Deng, reacted. Seated directly behind her husband, she leapt to her feet and put a WWE-worthy smackdown on Marbles.
Max Beckham, a politics student who was there, told msnbc.com that as the attacker got up “he was muttering something under his breath. He was a little bit disheveled.”
“His [Murdoch's] wife, Wendi, jumps up and smacks him about three, four, five times, like hard, proper blows,” he added. “She was going for it. She tried her hardest to smack him really hard.”
Before letting loose on Murdoch, Marbles tweeted:
It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat
It’s been noticed by anyone with eyes that Michele Bachmann’s husband Marcus, who’s been in the news recently for his alleged “pray away the gay” clinic, doesn’t exactly emit super-strong heterosexual vibes himself.
Jon Stewart hinted at it in hilarious fashion a few days ago:
And really, anyone who’s heard or seen the guy can tell he’s got the swish. (The first time I saw video of him waving to a crowd, it seemed the only thing missing was a sash and a tiara.)
In an interview with Australia’s Sunday Times, Andrew Gibson — the adopted gay sibling of tabloid-bait Mel — said that when he heard those infamous audio tapes released by Mel’s ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, he didn’t believe it was really his famous brother.
“When I heard them I just thought, ‘That isn’t Mel’. He has never said anything abusive, aggressive or racist in his life.”
(Except for all those times he has, of course.)
Cindy Anthony tried to visit her daughter demon spawn, the acquitted-but-c’mon-we-all-know-she-did-it-anyway American scourge Casey Anthony — but was turned away.
An Orange County Correction Department spokesman says Cindy scheduled a visit for 7pm last night but Casey flatly refused to see her. TMZ is also reporting that after Casey’s not-guilty verdict was read, Cindy mouthed “I love you” but her ungrateful sociopathic offspring just rolled her eyes.
Awesome! That’s a fine way to treat the woman who gave you life and whose testimony helped plant the seeds of reasonable doubt that got your ass off the hook for murder.
For a chick without a whole lot of friends left, one might think Casey would at least be nicer to her family. Then again, look what she did to her own daughter.
