The Ronald Reagan act ...

Was in full swing at the "Murdoch Hearings" in Parliament. For a man who was supposedly so in touch with his media conglomerate that the term "micromanager" was bandied about constantly, it's amazing how much he didn't know about what went on under his nose. Hey, it's worked for me. I don't now how many times I've gotten out of trouble by acting the moron.

So, while none of us ever expected any great revelation before the MPs, JP has culled some gems from the blather:

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10) Rupert Murdoch doesn't like pie.

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5) Both Murdochs were completely ignorant of the fact that their media outlets hacked into cell phones over and over and (repeat 4,800 times)...

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3) Pieman who'd gotten the jump on Murdoch was the only person in the UK who hasn't had his cell phone hacked.

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Heh ...

Update:

And Digby asks a question I always have when these big shots act stupid:

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Here in the US we call Rupert's strategy the "Ken Lay" defense, which amounts to "I didn't know nothin' about anythin'" which has always brought to mind a big question for me: if they didn't know anything about what was going on in their companies, why in the hell were they paid so much money? It should, by all rights, inspire some sort of re-evaluation of CEO pay if nothing else.

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