Johnny Marbles, Wendi Deng Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch
Where was the News of the World when you most needed it? During Britain’s political circus known as hackergate, comedian Johnny Marbles apparently felt News Corp. ruler Rupert Murdoch, though a "greedy billionaire," looked hungry and wanted to offer him a little pie.
However, Marbles’ kindly act was cut short by The Woman in Grey (British spelling) in the Channel 4 News Twitpic posted above. I’m assuming she was starving — those hackergate hearings are to salivate over — and wanted the pie for herself. She must have reasoned: Murdoch, whose octopus-like company has more than enough dough to bribe police and buy political votes from all the whores in the British Parliament (and elsewhere), can certainly afford to buy his own pie.
Perhaps sensing that The Woman in Grey (TWiG) was going to run away with the pie without offering anyone a slice, The Woman in Pink (aka Wendi Deng Murdoch) literally threw herself between Murdoch, TWiG, and Marbles, apparently slapping the comedian before losing her balance. Pieless, she came crashing down on the floor. Gee whiz, that pie must have smelled awful good. [See Murdoch pie video below.]
Ironically, it turned out that Marbles was the one who got to taste most of his own pie, as clumsy Deng Murdoch allowed said pie to fall on the kind-hearted comedian. Poor Murdoch only got a few foamy white specks on his jacket. It’s unclear whether he had the chance to lick them off.
Prior to the pie offering, Marbles, paraphrasing Sydney Carton’s last words in A Tale of Two Cities, had tweeted: "It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat."
For my part, I can’t hardly wait for the inevitable movie version of The Murdoch Circus.
Quote source: The Hollywood Reporter
Have we identified who TWiG is yet?