Crouching Tiger, Slapping Wendi

All hail, Wendi Deng. It took her a split second to attack the guy hurling a pie at Rupert Murdoch, slapping so hard that the sound was picked up by the cameras. According to the BBC’s Nick Robinson she then started shouting “I got him, I got him.” First tiger mums, now tiger wives. “Mr Murdoch, your wife has a good left hook,” said Tom Watson afterwards. Better than his, at any rate. For all the hype, it was a strikingly uninformative session. About ten minutes into this Trial of Rupert Murdoch, it was pretty clear the committee was not going to get a “you can’t handle the truth!” moment out the Dirty Digger. He is a man of very few words (I’d say fewer than 17 per sentence, the ideal tabloid length), and at times it seemed hard to goad him into giving a response, far less into anger.