Oh My - Tony Blair was banging Murdoch's wife?????

[malaise]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/06/14/rupert-murdoch-wendi-deng-divorce-story-gets-juicier/2424115/
<snip>
Curiouser and curiouser. Day Two of the Rupert Murdorch-Wendi Deng divorce story turned juicier when ex-British prime minister and Deng pal Tony Blair got dragged into it.

Soon after news broke Thursday that billionaire media mogul Murdoch, 82, had filed for divorce from his third wife after 14 years of marriage, journalists in the U.S. and the U.K. with close contacts to Murdoch and his media empire, News Corp., began twittering about a scandalous possible reason for split.

Said scandal turned out to be the claim that Deng, 44, had an affair with Blair, 60, who happens to be godfather of the couple's two young daughters, Grace, 11, and Chloe, 9.

Blair, the former New Labor PM who was embraced politically by the conservative Tory/Republican Murdoch when he was in power, denied the claim through a spokesman today. But the way the denial was worded led to more speculation.
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Get the popcorn DUers although I'd prefer to be watching a trial from the Hague
These supporters of war crimes are all crippled inside but isn't it wonderful to watch the hypocrites.

[monmouth3]

1. And here I thought Whitey Bulger would be more interesting..Delish...

[malaise]

3. I love the denials everywhere

Blair is a pathological LIAR and a war criminal; he is still under suspicion for one David Kelly's 'suicide', so I'll go with the rumors of the affair. They're all decrepit scumbags.
http://www.google.com.jm/#q=blair+wendi+deng&spell=1&sa=X&ei=MdS8Ud_LKozU9gTpsoGoAw&ved=0CCYQvwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47883778,d.eWU&fp=f11c2527bdcf34a2&biw=660&bih=268

[monmouth3]

14. I like how you think girl..."decrepit scumbags" would be my thought also...LOL

[Berlum]

30. "I did not use my dong to dick Deng." - Tony B.

[malaise]

32. Hahahahaha

Where's the graphic

[Ken Burch]

39. I think I saw "Dong Dick Deng" on a menu in a Sichuan restaurant.

Not sure I'd order it, though.

[pangaia]

51. Have you ever been to Sichuan?

Deng is the family name of Deng Xiao Ping.
It was also the family name of a good friend of mine in, of all places, Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
And my wife is Chinese, although her family name is not Deng, nor is she from Sichuan.

But to join in your humorous Sat afternoon, When I was in Sichuan once, we took a bus that was run by a similar bus company with an interesting name, at least when translated into English..-- Long Dong.

[Ken Burch]

78. I meant a Sichuan-style restaurant. No offense intended and my apologies for causing offense. n/t.

[pangaia]

113. No offense taken, whatsoever.

I was just curious if you had been to China
A little of my background and a humorous rejoinder by way of the name of the bus company. When I was sitting on the bus with my then girlfriend and told her what the bus name meant in English, she was a bit embarrassed, to say the least.

[Ken Burch]

129. I bet. Have a nice weekend. n/t.

[R B Garr]

104. There's a restaurant in Orange County CA called Young Dong

That did give us a little chuckle as we drove by. But it must mean something good, because they picked that for their name.

[adieu]

66. Dang, dawg

you've dun dropped him in the dung.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

91. I wonder what Cherie Blair thinks of all this?

[malaise]

95. Good question

although she chose to marry the narcissistic sociopath

[Rosa Luxemburg]

96. It always surprised me.

Her dad was OK

[TexasTowelie]

94. This French couple guessed it back in the 80s!

Les Rita Mitsouko - Ding Dang Dong (Rolling on the floor)

[rppper]

112. Ding dang a dong a dong ding dong.....

Ministry got it years ago.......


Check out this video on YouTube:

[Ken Burch]

19. Wait...Blair was banging Whitey, too?

[malaise]

20. That would be the trial of the century

[flamingdem]

61. Whitey was hot in his day

nice eyes.

[malaise]

62. I would pick him over those two any day of the week

[monmouth3]

24. I think you meant to respond to malaise..Haha..n/t

[malaise]

34. I think not

[DJ13]

2. Didnt Murdock's News of the World have Blair wire tapped?

[malaise]

7. That would have been news from Deng under

[Skidmore]

41. You are wicked.

[malaise]

43. Hahahaha Murdoch is from

Down Under

[Skidmore]

45. So he is. So he is.

[Eleanors38]

56. Sounds like Blair was tapping Murdoch.

[The Magistrate]

4. Damn, Ma'am....

This may need pop-corn and a regular reading of the Daily Mail....

[Hekate]

80. The comments in this thread alone, Sir, are enough to have me reaching for my fan

[Gravitycollapse]

5. I like how you put it in such a way that gives zero agency to the woman.

[malaise]

8. Sorry - I don't give a flying fuck about Wendy Deng

War criminal Blair and the enabler Murdoch now - butter for my popcorn please.

[Gravitycollapse]

10. It's not a matter of not liking her. It's framing her as only existing as a man's property.

[malaise]

11. Start your thread on the subject n/t

[Gravitycollapse]

12. I'm kindly requesting that you modify the thread title so that it isn't sexist.

[hobbit709]

18. lots of luck with that one

[Gravitycollapse]

22. This is why we can't have nice things.

[hobbit709]

28. Yuo know what Mark Twain said about the only people who had the right to use we.

[Gravitycollapse]

33. Was it something about how we shouldn't be making blatantly racist jokes?

[ananda]

98. We understand.

My tapeworm and me.

[malaise]

35. +1,000 n/t

[Gravitycollapse]

44. This is a second request that you remove the sexist content from the thread title.

[RC]

154. Remove sexist content from a thread title about an adulteress affair?

You gotta be kidding. There is nothing wrong with that title.

[Hippo_Tron]

139. I think it's more due to the fact that nobody has the faintest clue who Wendy Deng is

Wendy Deng isn't being minimized in the OP's title because she's a woman, she's being minimized because she isn't famous in her own right. If Tony Blair was having sex with Murdoch's son or nephew, I wouldn't bother mentioning the son or nephew's name in an OP about it.

[pacalo]

68. "Murdoch's wife" is how people know who she is -- she isn't famous

in her own right.

[Gravitycollapse]

85. You are only furthering my point.

[pacalo]

89. Whatever...the fact that she's Murdoch's wife needed to be pointed out.

[Gravitycollapse]

92. Well, of course. That is the only way to further the slut rhetoric.

If she possessed an independent identity, it would be more difficult to debase her.

[hobbit709]

93. And what would you call a married woman that has an affair?

[Gravitycollapse]

101. I wouldn't call her anything. She would be unfaithful for what she did.

The term "slut" is a pejorative against women. It is inexcusable to use it under any circumstance.

[pacalo]

106. Start your own OP to find others who are interested

in focusing on language that bothers you. The OP's comment was appropriate; to frame it otherwise is rather neurotic, imo.

[Gravitycollapse]

111. Sigh. It is so fitting to be accused of neurosis.

[pacalo]

116. It is what it is. It's also threadjacking.

The administrators gave you tools to use, "trash this thread" being one of them. Why don't you use it on this one & stop trying to turn it into a Meta subthread.

[Gravitycollapse]

120. Criticizing the contents of an OP is not thread jacking.

Keep telling me how I'm neurotic.

[pacalo]

121. The fact that you are belaboring the issue is proof enough.

Trash the thread, then move onto something else more to your liking.

Bye bye.

[Gravitycollapse]

124. Feel free to ignore me.

Or don't. Doesn't bother me either way. After all, I'm just another neurotic feminist.

[Frosty1]

136. They just don''t get it!

Words matter!

[Samantha]

127. I agree -- that is exactly what makes this such a huge story

Many would have breezed right by this thread if her name had simply been supplied.

Sam

[Hippo_Tron]

140. How is that furthering your point

It would be the same thing if it were Murdoch's son, nephew, brother, or husband. Someone not famous in their own right doesn't get pointed out by name in a story like this. They get called Murdoch's son, nephew, brother, or husband.

[HiPointDem]

134. if we say 'margaret thatcher's husband' was doing such & such, does that frame him as existing

only as her property?

no, it doesn't. it tells us that margaret is the more famous or powerful.

and wendy deng wouldn't be in the news except for being married to rupert.

newsflash: language does not create the practices; the practices are mirrored in the language. maybe you should devote yourself to the reality rather than the reflection.

picking language nits accomplished nothing but furthering hypocrisy.

[malaise]

137. Very well said

[Gravitycollapse]

150. Language and practice inform one another. It is not a one way road.

Language carries both informational and performative qualities. Language is an action.

[HiPointDem]

156. speaking is an action. language is not. that's why it's a noun.

[lumberjack_jeff]

142. That's her business model. n/t

[Cha]

60. Excellent

rssponse, malaise!

[Luminous Animal]

25. She's just a recepticle to "bang", apparently.

[caseymoz]

83. I never thought of banging as particularly sexist.

It's reciprocal. She can say she's banging Tony. It's crude. But I don't see the sexism with this one.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. THAT would be the most AWESOME scandal EVER!

...well, perhaps eclipsed by the inclusion of Jeb Bush in some sort of tag-team maneuver...

[malaise]

9. Oh yes indeed

[DJ13]

13. perhaps eclipsed by the inclusion of Jeb Bush in some sort of tag-team maneuver...

[Cooley Hurd]

16. Help me out. Is that a Bush hovering over his own sick?

On edit: Duh on my part - yes, the thought of Jeb naked would make me puke on any rapid transit.

[Ken Burch]

23. ...With Rove running the camcorder, of course...

(We all know Karl would be the sort of guy who mainly likes to watch).

[Cooley Hurd]

27. OH, you just kicked it up a level!

I likee!!!

[Blue Owl]

15. Murdoch was too busy guarding FOX, not the hen house

[malaise]

17. DUzy

[flamingdem]

63. LOLLL

[Ken Burch]

26. In an apparently unrelated story, Tony Blair has just released his first country-western single:

"Deng Me, Deng Me, Someone Take a Rope and Heng Me".

[malaise]

37. Getting up off the floor

[nomorenomore08]

73. Now that's funny right there!

[polly7]

76. LOL!

[marions ghost]

29. Doozylicious

He's got the lockjaw. Yep, it's true.

Nudge Nudge Wink Wink"

[malaise]

40. If it isn't locked yet

It will be soon

[LittleBlue]

36. Ahahaha

I hope there's a video somewhere

To be cuckolded by Blair must be the worst feeling in the world.

[malaise]

38. Not if you thought Murdoch was attractive

[RudynJack]

42. Ya gotta give her credit.

Some women know how to fuck well (and not in the sense of being good at sex, but at working their way up).

Pamela Harriman comes to mind. She died as U.S. Ambassador to France. I have a grudging respect for women who use their talents to great success.

I tried to sleep my way to the top, until I found out that taking naps at my desk was NOT what the phrase intended.

[malaise]

46. To each her own

I'm sure she learned fast that there are no free rides. Still Murdoch couldn't come near me and I sure wouldn't be approaching him - not even for millions of dollars. Yuck!!

[RudynJack]

48. It's a specialized talent

to be sure. But a number of women (and men, too) have used it to great advantage.

[HiPointDem]

135. pamela digby churchill harriman was already part of the elite. wendy deng wasn't. no comparison.

Pamela Beryl Digby was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, England, the daughter of Edward Digby, 11th Baron Digby, and his wife, Constance Pamela Alice, the daughter of Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare, a peer in the House of Lords...Amid acres of Dorset farmland and woods, Pamela as a young girl enjoyed an idyllic lifestyle at the top of the county’s social tree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Harriman

[RudynJack]

152. Who cares where they started?

Harriman had smaller steps to climb.

The heir to the Johnson&Johnson fortune was a Polish housekeeper.

Harriman was a courtesan. She was good at it, and good for her.

[HiPointDem]

155. harriman was already at 'the top'. she married rich men because she belonged to the same class.

no 'steps'.

regardless of what wikipedia says, being married three times does not equal being a 'courtesan'. neither does sleeping with many men.

[flamingdem]

47. This one is better than Snowden

[malaise]

49. That needed a graphic warning

Decrepit scumbags all

[flamingdem]

50. I didn't realize it was so huge!

Can see the coffee stains on Blair's teeth, bloody 'ell

[malaise]

64. Bwaaaaaaaaaah

I was actually going to ask how come he collected all that loot and couldn't clean and fix his teeth Blair looks like every man I have hated all my life - a dishonest fake.

[Arugula Latte]

71. Probably tea stains, though.

[flamingdem]

74. By George I think you've got it!

Tea does stain worse than coffee too. A jolly mess!

[Shrike47]

52. She was just looking for a younger man (younger than Murdoch can still be older than dirt.)

[marions ghost]

59. Yeah he wasn't exiting soon enough

looks like the old pirate might make the 90's.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

53. Not "banging," "shagging." He's British, you know.

[malaise]

65. I was trying to remember Rachel's word but I can't

even attempt to spell it. Is it sloopsing??

[PDJane]

103. Schtupping. It's Schtupping. Yiddish word.

[malaise]

117. That's it

Thanks

[msanthrope]

146. I nearly wet myself laughing over this post..you are a treasure! nt

[malaise]

147. Hahahahahaha

When I saw the real word so did I

[thelordofhell]

54. Rupert Murdoch would like to send a dedication to Tony & Wendi...........

[malaise]

69. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahaha

Never heard that before - I'm saving that one

[pacalo]

114. You're soooo bad...

[cloudbase]

55. Tony is a Friend of Bill.

Go figure. . .

[livingwagenow]

57. Is his 3rd divorce another example of the "sanctity" of marriage between 1 man and 1 woman?

A view espoused by Rupert and his right-wing media outlets.

Why can't right-wingers live by the code that they force down everyone else's throats?

Perpetual "Do as I say, not as I do."

Some things never change.

[hobbit709]

58. You guessed it.

They always want to stop you from doing what they are doing.

[malaise]

70. Those rules are for us plebs

Not them.
Welcome to DU

[alfredo]

67. This Jethro Tull classic comes to mind

"Locomotive Breath" - Ian Anderson

In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all-time loser,
Headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping --
Steam breaking on his brow --
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
At the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
In bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees --
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling --
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideon's Bible --
Open at page one --
God stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.

[malaise]

72. No sympathy for him from me

[alfredo]

87. Same here. I can't see how she could have handled his old man smell.

[malaise]

88. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

She probably covered her nose with dollar bills, pounds and Euros

[Jack Rabbit]

75. Like I give a you-know-what

All parties involved deny it, however . . .

I don't care who the Frat Boy's poodle was banging. Adultery wouldn't be the worst thing he did.

[elleng]

77. WOW, that's a good one, eh?

And Blair converted to Catholicism 'recently!' Think so he could be 'forgiven???'

[malaise]

79. Probably for the war crimes

but who knows.

[elleng]

82. Mebbe, but

'forgiven' for THOSE??? imo

[Spitfire of ATJ]

81. Is the investigation going to be called "The Blair Twitch Project"?

[malaise]

86. Twitch or Itch?

DUzy anyway

[caseymoz]

84. They're British. The term is "punting." nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

90. Did any of the offspring look like poodles?

That would be proof positive.

[malaise]

97. DUzy

[calimary]

99. ...and if she were having an affair with Sir Paul McCartney, you'd have a Deng Beatle!

...sorry...

[malaise]

100. Some great responses on this thread

One more DUzy

[HipChick]

102. I believe it..

[MichiganVote]

105. Well anyone with half a brain knew there's been an affair but this guy??

What a great bunch of sociopaths. Imagine the legacy of just what is known or speculated upon. Run a publishing biz for decades just so you can emotionally castrate two parents of a murdered child by giving them totally bogus hope, father two kids who you really have no intention of actually being a Father to, wife balls the Godfather of the children and the Godfather can't find his balls to admit that not only are/were there NO weapons of mass destruction--the dude himself is a master of self destruction.

You couldn't build an amoral compass any better than that. What a bunch of pigs.

[malaise]

118. Could't say it better except that you forgot this part-

preach to the world about your high morals, decency and right to rule the world.

[MichiganVote]

125. But of course. The bigger the lie, the bigger the defense.

These people are nothing but trash.

[Taverner]

107. A whore is a whore is a whore

Whether he is a war whore or a corporate whore, a whore is a whore

**My apologies to anyone in the Sex Industry. Yours' is one of the more honest business ventures known to man and woman.

[malaise]

122. And he is the quintessence of a whore

Nicely played

[MoonRiver]

108. OMG!

[TheCowsCameHome]

109. Blair must have had it in for Murdoch.

Just tryin' to be helpful, Tony?

[malaise]

123. Had it in

Very clever

[kenny blankenship]

110. It's cool tho' - all happened under Rupert's watchful eyes

He was the guy in the hood.

[CatWoman]

115. oh

my

[malaise]

119. Wink wink - check this

http://gawker.com/people-are-googling-wendi-deng-tony-blair-513208060
<snip>
People Are Googling "Wendi Deng Tony Blair"

In the wake of the news that Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce against Wendi Deng, people seem to be entering the above-referenced search terms into Google. Presumably, they're just trying to look up a column Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff wrote last year in the Guardian, headlined "Tony Blair and the Murdochs: A Family Affair," which includes this passage:

Blair becomes one of Wendi's first official social conquests, in her developing role both as Murdoch social emissary and social power player. Wendi Murdoch becomes a curious wrinkle in the power equation—a way for Blair to see himself as having control of Murdoch, of joining with Wendi to handle him.

It is Wendi Murdoch who, in 2008, when I am writing about her husband, urges me to speak to Blair; she personally sets up the appointment.

Wolff's column must have had quite an impact in some circles, though we can't quite gauge reader response since a note at the bottom of the piece says, "This article will not be open to comment for legal reasons."

There was some reaction on Twitter, though, back when the column was originally published:

[dflprincess]

126. This could make a great episode of "Maury" n/t

[Turbineguy]

128. Rumpy

Pumpy!

[Ken Burch]

130. Is this the part where somebody should point out that the traditional role of a "godfather"

is to oversee the religious and MORAL education of the children in question?

[malaise]

133. You think he switched religions to be godfather?

[Ken Burch]

145. If he did, he switched to the wrong one.

Blair went from Anglicanism to Catholicism. The Murdochs are Presbyterian.

Simply pointing out the irony between the traditional expectations of a person in that roll and his actual conduct after assuming it.

[malaise]

149. LOL

Looks like he forgot the Protestant Ethic

[Freddie]

131. Gotta give the British credit

They *really* know how to have a scandal!
When I think of Tony Blair, I think of adorable Michael Sheen in "The Queen". Now that there's real pics of him--image shattered!

[flamingdem]

157. What's the best source for news of this scandal

I'm a .. an anglophile that's it I care about the crown!

[DiverDave]

132. Who gives a damn? Not me

meh, big deal.

[Beacool]

138. I think that it's just gossipy B.S.

Either way, it's their business.

[pinboy3niner]

141. If any of this pans out, somebody may need legal representation

Know any lawyers?

(And congratulations to your niece!)

[malaise]

148. I know a few and would love an inside track on this one

Thanks

[Doctor_J]

143. I think Hugh jackman is also friend of Rupie

I sure hope this doesn't go that direction too

New soap opera - All Satan's Friends

[ForeignandDomestic]

144. No honor among thieves...

He and people like Bill Clinton; these people are the moral authority whose opinions should matter when it comes to making life and death decisions about other human beings such as war and many other things.

No wonder this world and especially the West is in it's final throes.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

151. Wonder if this is related?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/8749412/Sex-scandal-rocks-UK-politics

[malaise]

153. Interesting

I thought that one was related to the Cameron government - I read that there was a rumor about Coulson and Brooks???

[AnnieBW]

158. Did the Poodle Do It Doggie Style?

I know that Blair was "Bush's Poodle". Did they do it doggie style?