Yep

The man knows Rupert like few others.



This also is interesting:

There will be many moves before Tuesday's date with Parliament...including much practicing for Rupert. I've seen this: they drill him. He can't stay on script without endless repetition.

I suggest someone like Tom Watson (the MP not the golfer) go at things from angles ol' Rupert hasn't prepared to obfuscate about.

Oh and when Rupert -- as he did yesterday -- claims "I COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAVE KNOWN" here's a nugget from the last time he testified under oath before Parliament.

Rupert Murdoch said he was "hands-on both economically and editorially" with his newspapers on the last occasion he gave evidence to a British parliamentary committee, the Press Association reports.

The media tycoon told the Lords communications committee four years ago that he was a "traditional proprietor" of the News of the World and the Sun, and decided their stance on issues such as Europe and which party to back in a general election.

That was four years ago during the height of phone hacking, BTW.

Yesterday he stated:

He said, however, that he attends to a lot of details in a multi-billion company with thousands of employees.

Funny how he's hands on, except -- of course -- when it might get his ass in personal trouble.

He'll pretty much be the living embodiment of Goya's famous painting of Saturn devouring his children over the next few days.