One more disturbing thing about Rupert Murdoch

[Bucky]

This is Rupert with his wife Wendi. Not his daughter, not his secretary, his wife.
shudder http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/03/05/deng_murdoch,0.jpg 38 years apart, in case you were wondering.

[Minnesota Libra]

1. Robbing the cradle these days. nt

[Warpy]

7. Just another old goat who trades in women and children

the way most of us trade in old cars or buy new shoes. She's just a thing. Her children (if he's capable) will be more things. When they get shabby or annoying, he'll just trade them in again.

It's hard not to feel a little sorry for gold digging homewreckers because we all know the same thing will happen to them eventually and they'll be left trying to explain to the kids about how Dad just throws families away every few years. Plus, you can bet she had to give up her young friends in favor of his old friends. It's not a happy life, and when he splits, she'll be left with no social support.

You know he's not going to have the decency to kick off any time soon.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. They already have 2 children

already involved in the fight for his millions when he snuffs it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendi_Deng

[Jade Fox]

14. Good analysis...

of the whole trophy wife situation.

I feel sorry for the kids. As you point out, men like this simply throw their families away every few years when they move on to a newer model wife.

[MoonRiver]

15. More like robbing the grave.

They deserve each other. :puke:

[npincus]

2. he was having a torrid affair w/her while married....

THREE CHEERS for Republican Values!

[tenshi816]

10. Ewww.

Rupert doesn't look like he's able to do torrid. Too strenuous.

[npincus]

16. Viagra, the miracle drug.

:cry:

[tenshi816]

18. I wonder if she made him

put a bag over his head every time, or if she just closed her eyes and thought of dollar signs.

[npincus]

19. the latter, I suppose.

as you put it: ewwwwwwwww.

[Heidi]

3. There are many worse things about Murdoch than the age of his wife.

For example, the fact that his company owns both myspace.com, which does not adequately verify the ages of its young users, and Fox network, which sells advertising around fear-mongering Fox programming about online predators and the kids who turn up brutalized, missing or dead as a result of the poor age verification at myspace. :grr:

Personally, I don't care how old his wife is, as long as she's old enough to consent.

[Bucky]

4. Apparently his older kids consider her something of a golddigger

It's part of the background for this open ruptures in his relationships with three of his four children by his two earlier marriages. Her full name, by the way, is Deng Weng-de, which is Mandarin for "Anna Nicole-Smith."

If I were her, I'd keep an eye on those Olson twins.

[Virginia Dare]

5. Hmmm, I wonder what Wendi's attraction to him is?...n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. As once asked on a British TV chat show to a wife 20 years younger

"So, Debbie, what first attracted you to millionaire Paul Daniels"?

[Bucky]

8. Let's go to famed ladies' man Henry Kissinger for the answer

Henry, whatcha got to say about this Wendi s Rupert thing?

"Vell..."

[tenshi816]

9. I'm sure she loves him for himself

and his obscenely large fortune has nothing to do with it. :sarcasm:

Actually, her expression speaks volumes. She looks completely bored and her eyes are blank.

[cigsandcoffee]

11. If two people love and commit to each other...

...then who am I to question the legitimacy of it? That's what fundies do with gays.

There is plenty to criticise Murdoch for without nailing his marital relationship.

[cybildisobedience]

13. his wife?

or his hostage?

She doessn't look too happy -- her expression seems to say: "You have NO idea what I have to do to keep this gig....."

[Beelzebud]

17. I'll go after issues of substance, not his private life...

Sounds to fundimentalist to me, to go after the guy's wife for her age...

Leave that sort of bullshit to the neo-cons...

[Skidmore]

20. Murdoch is a communications terrorist of the first order.

I don't care if he's married to a pygmy goat. What is more important to me is that he has been instrumental in destroying freedom and democracy the world over.

[Cleita]

21. There isn't enough money in the world for me to want to be

even in the same room with him and I'm the right age for him.

[onenote]

22. cheap shot and stupid to boot

Who cares that Murdoch has a young wife? Its not as if there aren't prominent Democrats with much younger wife. Consider Ted Kennedy (wife is 22 years younger), John Dingell (28 years younger), and John Conyers (around 35 years younger).

As others have said, there's plenty of substantive reasons to challenge Rupert; his marriage is definitely not one of them.