As a correspondent expressed an interest in reading how the reptiles decided to treat a recently departed member of the extended clan.
There are other obits in other places, but this is how the hive mind saw off one of a string of spouses, it being said that the Emeritus Chairman so loved the sanctity of 'death do us part' marriage that he's tried it five times...
Enough already, let us farewell #@:
The pond will withhold any commentary.
The tone is pretty clear, and people will be pleased to read that Anna didn't much like Australia, preferring the freedumb of the disunited States, no doubt a great relief to the emeritus chairman, who sold off his citizenship for a mess of Wall St pottage.
The piece was littered with snaps, which the pond has downsized ...
That's because it really is quite a long eulogy that's been put together by Jamie in a most sensitive and caring way ...
Then came two snaps suggesting fame by association, though perhaps hanging with Hawkie and with Diana isn't the most optimistic presentation of the joys of failed marriages...
Patience, there are still two gobbets to go, and two more snaps, with that reveal of disdain for down under about to come ...
Uh huh ...
And so mercifully to the final gobbet ...
The pond trusts this placates its corespondent, and regrets that it had to be relegated to a late Sunday arvo post, wherein the correspondent might well miss it ...
As for being judged for what you do, the pond couldn't help but throw in more signs that the Emeritus Chairman has gone the full FAFO, courtesy the WSJ ...
Not just one ... but here the pond must pause for a message from a man that the emeritus chairman did so much to help, and still helps on a daily basis via Faux Noise ...
That doesn't sound like what the WSJ was hoping for, but that's the art of FAFO...
You can celebrate the man, then put on a mocking mask, as the WSJ did in this one, presented here in two grabs...
And so ends the late arvo bonus, and so to end with more celebrations of life in the disunited States, with nutlickers never far from view ....
Well, DP, that’s pretty much the sort of Reptile rubbish I expected regarding the former Mrs Murdoch. Pump up the modest achievements (and hey, that’s not to denigrate her) while conveniently ignoring the benefits of Rupert’s resources and the extent to which the old goat did the dirty on her.
ReplyDeleteTo give credit where it’s due, though, to the best of my knowledge Rupert hasn’t buried her in a golf course as a tax dodge.
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DeleteBeing discreet, the pond didn't mention the way the old goat dumped her, or the age gap in the reason ...
“Why is your business strategy in China so bad?” If legend is to be believed, this is the first thing Wendi Deng ever said to her future husband during a packed staff meeting at Star TV in Hong Kong.
Murdoch fell hook, line and sinker. Just 17 days after his divorce from Anna was finalised, he wed Deng — who is 37 years his junior — on board his yacht Morning Glory which was anchored in New York Harbour. The couple share two children — Grace and Chloe — both of whom are now at prestigious US universities.
Those were the days, when the emeritus chairman thought he'd do over China like he'd done over the UK, Australia, and the USA ...