Pie! Apparently not pie but….

Rupert Murdoch was hit “squarely in the face” by a plate of shaving foam, CNN’s Dan Rivers reports. Murdoch is testifying before UK lawmakers on phone hacking by his reporters.

Pie has the honor of being a part of a long tradition. If he was hit with shaving foam, this is something new. And something new is a bad sign. You have entered a region that is essentially unknown. We know the pie region. We do not know the shaving foam region.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

15 replies on “It’s Over for Murdoch”

  1. I take it you’re not big on sports…or maybe the Mariners have just been losing for so long that you’ve forgotten what a shaving cream pie looks like.

  2. 4– beat me to it. I’m sure the shaving cream pie tradition existed before Jay Buhner showed up in Seattle.

  3. There once was a man in a scandal…
    for hacking which charges were fit…
    he thought he’d receive just an earful…
    but instead got a pie full of…

    SHAVING CREAM! Stay nice and clean! shave every day and you’ll always look keen!

  4. And now Murdoch’s story is ended
    I think it is time he should quit
    But to any of you he offended
    Stick your head in a big pile of…

    At least that’s probably what will happen.

  5. Old Rupert was called on the carpet
    by lawmakers having a fit.
    He stumbled during testimony
    and fell in a big pile of shaving cream,
    be nice and clean.
    Shave every day and you’ll always look keen.

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