It's amazing how such a good week for Democrats — including President Obama's record-setting fund raising and election victories in Wisconsin and California — can at the same time be such a bad, bad week for Rupert Murdoch.
All hell has broken out over in the U.K, and now the phone-hacking scandal is threatening to invade the United States. Please tell us cats why Murdoch's minions wouldn't hack into the phones, bank accounts and medical records of American 9/11 victims.
Meanwhile, we're enjoying the show — from Gordon Brown's fiery speech to Parliament, to the hapless Tory government piling on, to the Bancroft family saying they'd never have sold Murdoch The Wall Street Journal if they'd known. (But of course, shame on them for not regretting the Journal sale well before this.)
What's most intriguing us, though, is a comment that News International CEO Rebekah Brooks made last Friday. In breaking the news to employees that the News of the World would publish its last issue on Sunday, Brooks predicted more scandalous revelations that would lead to "a very dark day for this company."
We cats find this tantalizing. First, we couldn't imagine what could be "darker" than hacking into the phone of a 13-year-old murder victim. (And then of course came the news about Gordon Brown's infant son's medical records.) Second, so much has happened since last Friday that we can't help wondering if Brooks' "dark day" revelations have already been revealed — or if they're still to come.
If the latter, there's only one event we could think of that, if Murdoch is somehow involved, would outrage the British public more than the murder of an innocent teen: The death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Who was that mysterious Fiat Uno driver?
Let the rumor mill begin!
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