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    Wendi Murdoch gives exclusive interview to Rupert’s nemesis, The Guardian

    Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Wendi, at the e-G8 conference in Paris in May. (AP)

    Wendi Murdoch--who threw herself into the international spotlight in July when she smacked down a prankster seeking to push a shaving-cream pie into the face of her 80-year-old husband, Rupert--gave an exclusive interview to London's Guardian. It's a curious choice for the highly touted interview, since the Guardian had published the explosive reports on the phone-hacking at British News Corp. properties. which sparked the investigation.

    The 42-year-old Mrs. Murdoch co-produced a film, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," which was the occasion for the interview--her first since the pie incident.

    "All the Chinese ministers were very proud of me and wanted me to be a Chinese heroine," Murdoch told the Guardian's Patricia Danaher. "I keep getting job offers as a bodyguard."

    She was reluctant to address the phone-hacking charges in detail, but said the scandal has brought the family closer:

    It's tough, but you know, you get through it. It makes the family closer together. Rupert is a very strong man. He takes it, he takes the blame. He moves on. He's doing good. We have a hundred, 200 newspapers, 50,000 people, and a few people made a mistake. We have to learn from the mistake and move on. The majority of people [at News International] are amazing.

    She also talked about the unified approach to parenting that prevails in the Murdoch household:

    With our children, Rupert and I practice tough love. We love them, but we're tough and we discipline them--you have to finish your homework, do your chores, be polite to people, but also we show them a good example ourselves.

    You can read the full profile, published Saturday, here.

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    • Don Coolen  •  6 mths ago
      The marriage between Rupert and Wendi is the ultimate collision of two garbage trucks. It stinks in the bedroom, boardroom, and their dictatorial news organization. If you work for their
      slave camp, you are a loser.
      • Danny Smith 6 mths ago
        well said, thanks. Those fat & stupid Brits and ugly Americans working for News Corps. are sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiit anyway.
      • Franklin Brown 6 mths ago
        And that means you Rush and Glenn and the hoebag Ann Coulter.
      • Joe Eden 6 mths ago
        @Franklin Brown, you are an idiot, and your ugly mama should've aborted your crap head to begin with.
    • Much Ado About Something  •  Stamford, United States  •  6 mths ago
      It really is amazing what you can rationalize when your check book is of the extreme large size. He did not take the blame....his son James did. He passed the buck.
    • Uh huh  •  6 mths ago
      Family of sociopaths
    • Pat Walsh  •  6 mths ago
      I would not do her with Lightnings dik.
    • Judy  •  Detroit, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Sometimes a sociopath will marry his eagerest enabler....and then the media will give her a microphone and the rest of us have to be tormented.
    • Franklin Brown  •  Toledo, United States  •  6 mths ago
      They apparently didn't tell the one son it was against the law to use a wiretap.
    • franklin  •  6 mths ago
      Hey she is not bad looking.40 years difference! he has a toothpick and a very large ATM debit card,
    • Joex  •  West Palm Beach, United States  •  6 mths ago
      My Brothers Do you know zeitgeist movement? May be Zeitgeist movement is a solution for you and me do your own research. Today almost all world media in hands of New World Order puppeteers like Murdoch. They manipulate and brainwash people, many of us don’t understand or realize that we all victims of evil plans of NWO. Democrats and Republicans have both failed us. No one is looking out for OUR interests. Next, the Federal Reserve is a Private Bank that issues our currency and controls our Nations Credit. This is against Constitutional Law. It is the Treasury Department's job to do this. Recently the Federal Reserve printed Trillions of Dollars causing severe inflation. Then the Government used this money to give it to already Rich corporations as our tax dollars. This rigged markets and caused economic collapse around the entire world. These Corporations in turn used that money to give themselves bonuses.1. It consists of Homeless people, hippies, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, high school students. College students, adults, children, teenagers, democrats, republicans, libertarians, moderates, jobless people, people with jobs... every type of person there is.2. It is In every Major city around the entire world.3. All the protests in America and some other parts of the world are peaceful. But not every part of the world is protesting peacefully. Some countries have over thrown their dictators.4. it’s time to mobilize and aggressively move on common sense political reforms.We’ve had enough of… The Two-Party Oligarchy,Big Government,Big Corporate Power,The Concentration of Power It’s time to… ,Decentralize,Create New Political Parties,Restore the Rule of Law.The economic top one-tenth of one percent of the global population has launched an economic war on us. They are hoarding $39 Trillion in investible wealth, not counting the vast sums they have hidden in offshore accounts. In the United States, we now have the highest and most severe inequality of wealth in our nation’s history. While there is a record number of American citizens currently living paycheck to paycheck, in debt, unemployed, underemployed, without healthcare, on food stamps and in poverty, as our society is breaking down, global bankers have taken our tax dollars and given themselves all-time record-breaking bonuses. The same people who destroyed our economy have been rewarded with trillions of dollars in national wealth. It is now evident that both political parties and all three branches of government, along with the mainstream corporate media, have been bought off by global economic elite. As a broad-based network representing people across the political spectrum, we are working together to reach common ground and fight for pivotal political reforms. As long as the economy and government are rigged in favor of the top economic 0.1%, we will all lose.Here’s a general outline of our common ground platform:Enforce RICO Laws,Break Up the Big Banks,End the Fed,Break Up the Mainstream Media,Shut the Revolving Door,End Closed Door Lobbying,Increase Government Transparency,End Corporate Personhood, Amend Campaign Finance,Verify All Votes,Investigate War Profiteers,Investigate War Crimes,End the Wars,Reopen the 9/11 Investigation,Restore Civil Liberties,Uphold the Constitution,Clean Air, Water & Food,Reduce Healthcare Costs, Profiteering,Make Healthcare a Human Right,Improve Education For All, Reduce Costs,Reform Prison System,Reform Drug Laws,Immigration Reform,Rebuild Infrastructure,Protect Internet Freedom,Empower States’ Rights,End Corporate Welfare,Raise Taxes on Richest 0.1%,Reduce Taxes for 99%.These are the core common ground issues that we must urgently rally around and support. Unless we organize and take decisive action, we will all suffer the consequences of our collective inaction. Any politician who does not urgently move on these issues must be voted out of office and replaced by people who will aggressively fight on this fronts.
    • Old Geezer  •  6 mths ago
      I wonder what Escort Service Murdoch first got her name from?
    • Zombie Birdhouse  •  6 mths ago
      Her theme song - "Star Star" by the Rolling Stones.
    • David D...  •  6 mths ago
      2 ugly dongs
    • American Me  •  Hillsboro, United States  •  6 mths ago
      What is she but a gold digger waiting for his death. They both are very dishonest and ugly.
    • JJ  •  6 mths ago
      Wendi give vely vely good #$%$ to old fart.
    • Adam  •  Indianapolis, United States  •  6 mths ago
      enuf sad
    • Susan  •  Richardson, United States  •  6 mths ago
      They both look the same, EVIL
    • Universalist  •  Live Oak, United States  •  6 mths ago
      "Rupert is a very strong man. He takes it, he takes the blame"
      another woman living in denial - is she related to bachman/palin ?

      rupe has denied any wrongdoing - it was just the people he hired & gave a free reign as long as they made him a lot of money - nothing wrong there rupe - just good old fashioned rape & pillage -
      maybe rupe's ancestors owned fiefdoms & he is just carrying on the family legacy -

      rupe njeeds to be punished - no not with wendi in only thigh high leathers with a whip - rupe likes that kind of punishment
    • Constantine XI  •  6 mths ago
      It's funny how Fox News and their other Newscorp organization are all about having "nemeses." Either you agree with them and their monocultural vision, or you get lumped in with Latinos, Muslims, Gays, liberals, atheists, and others who are the "them." Such people who scapegoat minorities and opponents had a lot of power in the 1930's in central Europe. It's sad to see the return of such sentiments.
    • J As  •  Indianapolis, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Please yahoo, no more close up shots of those two-I think my laptop screen just cracked! Yikes-you would think a couple of billion could buy some dermatology treatments and a facelift.......................for both of them.
      • Franklin Brown 6 mths ago
        You mean you wouldn't use them for your sexual fantasies?
    • Jack  •  Kansas City, United States  •  6 mths ago
      they are devils ...what a devils rule world's tvs, radios , news ,.... and no one know !
    • SucMucDuc  •  6 mths ago
      How would you like to wake up to that ugly #$%$ every day. She can't get enough money to do that. They must sleep in separate houses.
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