An MP with a thick Scottish accent grilling an 80yr old partially-deaf Australian-born American is excruciating. Need translators. #Murdoch—
Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 19, 2011
Guido is looking forward to crystal clear tones when Morgan is hauled before Lord Justice Leveson.
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Comment of the day!
An MP with a thick Scottish accent grilling an 80yr old partially-deaf Australian-born American is excruciating.
IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO!
No Gordon if he had meant you he would have said:
“A thick MP with a Scottish accent grilling an 80yr old partially-deaf Australian-born American is excruciating.”
Forget phone hacking, what about a judicial review for the serious matter of the Iraq war where thousands of people lost their lives and were injured. What about a judicial inquiry about MPs expenses and why so few were/are prosecuted. Is there another cover up or agreement between the Met and government?
Root and branch investigation of corruption at Westminster including second jobs, lobbying, relatives jobs/contracts connected with Westminster. Clegg, Cameron and Milipede when are you going to instigate the biggest and most needed inquiry.
Piers-Pughe Morgan (his real name): “Why does everyone take an instant dislike to me?
Everyone: “It saves time!”
Dont worry Piers you corrupt lying shit….your next…look out for the arrest warrant on your door mat, lm sure Sven will be happy, as will all the people you hacked for the Mirror!
Dumb twat.
Was Piers the one who started the phone hacking?
He was one of the first, he passed all skills onto Campbell and baldwin, then to Maguire!
Mirror fucked, BBC fucked, Guardian fucked, Liebour fucked!
Now is the time, if you have anything on a Labour MP sell it to Murdoch. You’ll never be in a better position than now! If you have anything on Miliband don’t sell it. We need this salivating moron to stay in charge of Labour.
Dunno, it’s a fairly recent trend. They never hacked mobile phones a century ago in Fleet Street’s heyday. Someone told me why but I forget the reason.
It’s not his accent that is thick, it’s him.
Than that makes him perfect Leadership material !
Milibean’s sphincter must be quivering by now as he sees the scenario being played out for all the world to see on the BBC.
Too right ‘smoggie’. I bet his arse is going like trumpeter’s lips.
Like the Speaker’s missus’ flaps, vibrating in the open window overlooking the Thames.
I heard him being interviewed on Bring Back Communism’s radio 4 this morning and asked what questions he would be asking. I only understood less than half of what he said.
Where do they find these cretins?
Mainly in Scotland by the look of it.
Almost off to the pub, but not before asking conservatives whether
-they have started counting all public sector job adverts in Guardian newspaper (adverts for which the big money is paid) and make an estimate of how much revenue that has represented for the Guardian over the period 1997-2010. Remember also the personal links between Guardian and labour (government): Myners, Wagg Prosser, MP on media select committe used to write for Observer, Ashley’s father a labour peer);
-they have started preparing a law that requires all government advertising to be properly spread over all the media groups in the country and publishing acounts of its advertising budget.
Get on with it you lazy farts! Stop looking into those headlights. I’m giving you all this free advice as non-uk geezer who can make lots of money if labour returns to office through shorting sterling and gilts. So take this advice.
Morgan needs stringing up for what he did to the good name of the British Military.
What he did was for worse and showed far greater gullibility than anything Cameron has done.
I’ve got a bottle of champagne chilling in readiness for Piers’s appearance. I’ll probably still choke on it when he opens his smarmy mouthm but anyway…
Yes Piers, just wait until you are at the end of Watson’s tongue.
teabagging
Watson will have to go easy on him as a fellow traveller.
We should bring up Watson’s record on expenses.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Will Mr Morgan be requiring a Spanish Translator at a later date?
I think he meant to say: A thick Scottish MP grilling an 80yr old partially-dead Australian-born American is excruciating. Need translators
Tom watson blew it, how is someone at the top of a world wide company meant to know every detail of 1% of his buisness.
Rupert has played a blinder, James is very impressive.
Loved the references to Labour, paarties (Mrs Murdoch was good then) even got alistar campballs name in there.
That was Cameron, erm Alaistair Campell’s idea..
Accurate albeit illiterate as usual Billy
Why did we have to have 5 minutes on which door they used?
Watson looked like a prize nob-head.
Sheridan was clumsily attempting to uncover some secret meetings with Cameron.
It exploded in his face when Murdoch revealed he’s entered the back of No10 numerous times when Brown/Blair was in power.
Wasn’t Sheridan the MP who said in 2008 that ex-ministers who criticise Gordon Brown should be injected with rabies? Scots look after their ain.
Your comments suggests that he looked like a nob-head for a specific moment in time!
Clearly this is a permanent feature
Type-casting
He is a pie shaped dog t u r d.
How can anyone always look like they are straining to shit a wardrobe?
This is clearly showing these MPs have absolutely no clue about what is involved in running global corporations which own hundreds of businesses and subsidiaries.
Murdoch’s 1 MP’s 0
Neither does the public and I can’t see the BBC taking the time to explain to them that the CEO in America wouldn’t be expected to be on top of all the details involving one Sunday newspaper in Britain.
I thought that also. No wonder the country is in the shit.
Watson claimed to be unaware of what Damien MacBride was up to even though he sat at the next desk. Presumably he was too busy stuffing his face and waiting for the pubs to open.
Watson came across like a prefect grilling a new lad at school but the new lad made him look like a prick.
Did you all hear Simon Hoggett of the Guardian huffing and puffing that Murdoch gave an impression of an old man with Alzheimer’s? He was totally pissed off as he believes Murdoch acted the part and got sympathy for it. Now we need to find who helped this 3rd rate Labour comedian into the enquiry.
Bring Back Communism’s Radio 4 have given up asking anyone other than Labour and Guardian people about this enquiry. They are now putting second stringers in as interviewers so when the shit hits the fan the loony left champagne socialists presenters will state it was not me guv. Such arrogance and lack of shame.
i sold the gold at $250 because it was the right thing to do
It was the other Ed’s idea to sell the gold. being at the front he thinks he has the brains.
My MP smells of poo.
… and it’s just hit a record high – $1602
Time to buy it all back then.
The Committee have not landed a single punch.
I think the Murdoch’s themselves have done the only damage to their reputation.
They are a pair of jokers.
and you cant be a tax payer…your a liebour supporter…they dont do tax payers, just tax dogers like the Guardian!
twat
I will be buying subscriptions to the remaining NI titles just to piss you off leftie.
Meanwhile the Guardian survives another year, not by increasing its subscriber base, but by dodging more tax…
And it still gets the loads of public sector jobs after the phantom cuts.
The BBC will report that the Murdoch’s stonewalled and evaded questioning and only report on Murdoch senior sneaking into the Back door to see Mr Cameron after the last election and leave out the inconvenient facts about him repeatedly doing the same for Brown and Blair.
So far as I can tell, the Murdochs have been as open as possible and are fully co-operating with all aspects of this.
The corruption appears to come from lower level hacks who were (at the time) doing everything they could to keep labour in power and attack the perceived enemies of “The Party.” People who were much like Morgan himself at the time.
How much hacked information was used by the labour spin and dirty tricks smearers?
Misterned. Crick is leaving Labour’s Newsnight programme. They are looking for a new commentator with the insight and foresight that you seem to have.
Guess what: Beeb have twittered that Cameron asked Murdoch to enter no 10 throught the back door….but have completely forgotten to report that Brown did too!
Get your application in now.
Give it a rest Guido barking up the wrong tree. Peirs, Baldwin….will go the same way as your Hari Huhne kristallnacht
Illiterate as well as a lefty mong
And not one member of the Labour Paaarty will be implicated.
Dream on, raghead.
Moussa Hunter….still not been deported yet, l bet we can get Tom Baldwin to hack your phone like he did Dr kelly, then maybe your will mysteriously slit your wrists!
You will be missed by the BBC and Red Ed’s house.
so long
Interesting that you do not believe that ex News International hacks who are implicated in alleged illegality have nothing to answer for, so long as they are employed by a labour leader.
What hypocritical double standards you boast of.
Nice that you are admitting to being a scum loving piece of shit. Saves the rest of us telling you, eh Koussa!
Currently Hari looks like he’s been well nailed to the wall via his little head. In particular, the whole David Rose business has, so to speak, banged another bandoleer of nails into said organ tip http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2011/07/who-is-david-rose.html
I think James Murdoch doing OK – thought he was a bit thick but seems able to handle these fools without too much difficulty
I thought that as well.
No Need to worry H@rry , he aint after ya job
They are both coming across as sincere. Wearing nice suits and taking their punishment face-to-face like men. Good move by the old fox.
Contrary to what the B-bbc’s talking mong’s were priming the listeners to this morning, I.e. that they will either be claiming the equivalent of the fifth amendment, or lying through their teeth.
I liked the question that they were asked about what coaching or training did they undertake before this appearance? And they said that the legal team addressed the likely allegations and told them to be honest and open and transparent and answer everything as fully as they can!
The Committee were clearly not prepared for that.
If it was me I would just blame anyone else. Whose idea was it anyway? Sue’s?
The other thing is this. The Committee are clearly feeling their way as they go along. They will improve as time goes by, so the Murdoch’s did well to get in first with these greenhorns. The Met will not have such an easy time and by the time they get to the Labour culprits the Committee will be battle hardened and brutal.
As I said, sly ol’ fox.
Here’s hoping.
Leave poor Piers alone he’s done nothing wrong.
liar and a cu N T
Piers will be in jail within months, hope he enjoys his last few months on CNN!
fool,u will will rot in jail
what a fuckwit
is that rupe’s wife behind him?
she is hot. i bet he cant wait get get finished up here. none of that that are going home to a smoking hot little chinese check. go rupe!!
Yeah that’s Takeaway Wendi. Not bad at all – no wonder Rupe is half deaf and blind.
Me so horny….me love you long time !
yeh, fiffy million dollar
They need to put Watson back on. The rest of the panel have been useless.
What, and Watson wasn’t??
corrupt watson is a tool…lets see him trash Mcbride when the inquiry puts him under pressure!
Watson was and is useless. Stick to the burgers Tom.
Stick to dishing put advice on friendly printers and how to fill yer boots with expenses, whilst getting pissed in the Commons Bars.
Down with Brown, the Murdochs are looking completely incompetent. James is babbling and Rupert sounds like he is unaware of what his senior aids are doing in his business.
The committee is landing punch after punch.
I agree, although the cttee should be ripping them to bits.
I think this will go down badly for the Murdoch’s. They just seem so…..pathetic.
You’re obviously watching a different hearing to me.
Probably he’s more deaf than Murdoch.
Bryan…are you watching Cbeebies…..you cant be watching the panel, the panel have been fucked over!
Brown and Campbell through the back door a number of times with Murdoch!
Selective memory again retard boy!
Yes – if his memories aren’t at variance with the facts .S**t sticks to a sheep’s dags & Pugh-Morgan is
some sheep .
Rupert ” I am not really in touch”
These MPs are incredibly lame; their questions are insipid, almost meaningless and largely pointless.
This is going nowhere, very, very, painstakingly slowly.
Lets hope the old one doesn’t die of boredom.
This lot must have watched Chilcott’s lot to learn such forensic questioning techniques. Restoration of the importance of the HoC, indeed. Absolutely useless.
God this is dire….
And it’s apparently being watched worldwide…
Bollocks. They always say that about a Celtic v Rangers game but nobody but a few expatriate jockoes are watching.
Au contraire Smoggs old fellow…. there are indeed millions of us watching from afar and falling about laughing as the committee are made to look like the dumb jackasses they are, and we continue to give thanks that we all had the foresight to piss of out of the country years ago (taking all our assets with us too).
Piers’ dynamite combo of palpable smugness and total lack of self-awareness is should be a wonder of the world.
This has been surprisingly leaden. I hope the Brooks questioning will provide more fireworks.
hahahaha
he is telling them that all this fuss is over a chicken feed part of his universal empire.
NOW was less than 1% of his business. He let ginger minge run it for a flash now and then
These MPs are revealing how simple minded and simple thinkers they are.
News Int is a global corporation and what these 2 guys are saying is correct; it is chickenfeed for the old man…
The whole thing is a farce.
I am afraid the HoC will be a laughing stock at the end of the day.
Watson was a useless bully:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/janetdaley/100097714/culture-committee-tom-watson-has-done-the-impossible-made-rupert-murdoch-a-sympathetic-figure/
Is a few £100k that significant in a £20bn company?
Should the CEO really know where every £ goes?
It’s very likely that James didn’t want his old man to know what a hash he was making of things.
MP’s listed and claimed every last penny while filling in their expenses.
Perhaps they expect such forensic detail by people in the real world?
I’m sat here interviewing the interviewer’s interviewer watching on BBC iPlayer. I ask a slightly smug, but weary, Piers what he thinks of the proceedings thus far. He brushes a curly lock from his right eye and replies,
“Good pertinent questions from tom_watson – rest of the MPs hopeless so far.”
Spot on!
Unbelievable, the MPs are rubbish, even Watson (who I greatly admire) is dire. A sad day for me.
You use the modern vernacular “who” instead of “whom”.
It is also a very sad day for me to know that the ostensibly literate, but laced and laconic, Jimmy is found wanting as a man of letters.
If you hold any position in journalism, you should be shown the door forthwith, like some News of the World sozzled hack.
The day had started with such promise, Jimmy has hardly been able to sleep the night before as the anticipated destruction of the evil Murdoch Empire was now surely only hours away. To see him now though, after the event which came to nought was to see a broken man. He looked up at me through weary eyes, ” unbelievable” his voice was but a whisper, ” the MP’s are rubbish, even Watson ( who I greatly admire) is dire” his voice breaking with emotion and with tears streaming down his face “. A sad day for me…..
I hope the lovely Louise Mensch (née Bagshawe) asks a question soon. Her dulcet tones are rather pleasant.
So you like her lip service?
Why can’t I have a lovely blonde Tory lady for my MP?
Actually thinking about it I would swap him for a lot, lot less than a lovely blonde Tory lady……..
Not going to say who is but he sits on culture and media select committee, light jacket, “wrote” for the Observer………
A thick Scottish MP needs a grilling. Makes more sense.
Davies has actually been far more forensic and thorough than the other MPs.
Mehdi agrees:
Hasan is a jehaddy termite twunt
…. yes true, and patronising ….. and smug and conceited …. can’t wait for that criminal Keen to be on, hope I havent missed him …. he knows a thing or two about ‘impropriety’ with public funds
He’s a Borolad – if you don’t have a criminal record you’re a tart.
Oh Dear I’ve missed all the fun. School run and heavy storm.
Has twatson done enough to make militwit grateful enough to give him that place on the shadow front bench then?
No
But piss flaps morgon is tweeting his arse just in case he does get the job.
No…he fucked up big time.
Not as big a fuck up though from sheridan!
Who seems to have an unhealthy interest in back doors!
Top marks to Davies. It’s finally coming to life.
Rupert Murdoch has just dumped Les Hinton in it.
That Oriental bint sitting behind the Murdochs is giving me a boner !!
She is Mr Senior’s wife
thats his wife. i have spun one off over her
She’s got the male members of the Committee drooling, with her appeal to their Basic Instincts.
Sharon Stone, eat yer heart out.
Davis has been alright, but not landing any real blows.
The name Kath Raymond WILL finally surface now that Hinton has been exposed!
Says an ex Mirror editor (i.e. labour loving = scots politicians loving), now working in the states!
Definitely sub 100 IQ. Like mine!
Piers CNN show is sinking, he must want a job at Fox News. A news channel people actually watch.
Think of how stupid your average punter is — and then think that half the population are dumber still.
Hence socialism.
I said the same thing myself. The questioners are showing themselves to be ignorant of how companies operate, and most of them are painfully plodding nonentities.
That’s because a lot pf them are left wing whiners with no idea about the real world and view things so simplistically sadly.
It’s a pity the enquiry isn’t about fiddling. The committee would then be dealing with something they are expert at.
Does anybody here think that any MP will be worried about these matters once they break up for their 4 month summer holiday?
watson might, after all he’s got his career to think of.
Now this is better Glen mulcaires legal fees
It’s simply not credible that, following the earlier scandal, the Murdoch’s wouldn’t have made it their business to know about any involvement with Mulcaire, especially something so potentially damaging as paying his legal fees.
I hope none of those protesters are on benifits.
uP Da wORKaz!
What, no coverage of the climb down on Llewellyn? You, the Telegraph and Ed Milibland must be fuming.
The number of times James Murdoch’s said he doesn’t know about various things suggests he’s either lying through his teeth or he’s incompetent. Probably the former.
Paul Farrelly impressive.
Or he’s running a big biz with tens of thousands employees and can’t possibly know everything
Tom Watson all burgers and no action.
Sheridan sounds like a wino. What language is he speaking.
The committee is a shambles.
I want to see a thick MP (Watson will do) grilling a thick newspaper editor (Morgan will do). THey should have great fun…if they play nicely.
I hope Brooks loses her temper or gets her baps out. Either would do.
haha i would rather get a flash of her minge a la sharon stone
that would fuck em all
Ginge minge would make me cringe.
Rusty roof damp cellar…
Murdoch’s not all bad. He owns 20th Century Fox, a very fine film studio that’s given us classics like Die Hard.
Guido is, as usual, greatly confused in his musings.
F*acist
spot on annon. guido is scraping the barrel of right wing filth. NotW is gone – guido next? we can only hope
xxxx
and you must be a commie working for Red Ed and the Beeb!
dumb tool
Nothing wrong with fasshism – Socialism’s bastard child and I do like their uniforms.
news corp international 10- committee nil
Compare James Murdoch’s answers to milligoon’s looped prepared answers (singular) to questions, and he wasn’t even under scrutiny!
I think these strikes are wrong at a time when negotiations are still ongoing.
Why is that MP impersonating Iain Dale? Is he gay?
Joel Klein is the guy behind the Murdochs in the green tie:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/12/joel-klein-news-corps-investigator
Morgan has done far worse than Murdoch and co. I look forward to the day when the truth comes out. Then we can judge Morgan for what he really is- a Brown turd.
Just caught site of Tom Watson daydreaming. Yum, yum, lovely greasy burgers.
Top tip : Get some spot cream Tom.
Or did he cut himself shaving?
Could be tomato sauce.
he is dreaming of mcbride…wondering how to put him in the shit and save his own job!
Gormless Gordon is fucked what ever happens!
Now he’s gone out for a burger, or is it that cream?
She’s got the male members of the Committee drooling, with her solititation of their Basic Instincts.
Sharon Stone, eat yer heart out.
James Murdoch is so wet and fey and a prime corporate BS merchant.
How come Phil Jupitus got on the panel? Are the Murdochs going to have to guess what the song is in a bit?
Tom Watson Scuttles off for a Pie
We ALL need translators to understand monoglot Scotchers!
Twat!
Rupert is impressive; lasting nearly 3 hours without a pee.
The last questioner, at long last
If more people followed Clarkson’s example and punched Moron’s smug stupid face the world would be a better place.A headbutt in the balls from Ian Hislop would also help.