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米鳖右派福克斯电台：邓文迪，我们的英雄
福克斯电台：邓文迪，我们的英雄
2011-07-20
原文标题：She Is Woman, Hear Her Roar -- Wendi Deng Murdoch Fights Back 作者：Kristi Stone Hamrick 译者：印权斌
文迪爆发了。
我们这些沉迷于24小时滚动新闻的人正麻木地看着一出被称为“听证”的群氓批斗大会在英国议院上演。一件奇事突然发生：一位女人起来站在自己男人身边，但不是因为性丑闻。
默多克父子正就《世界新闻报》丑闻的前因后果作证。
（你们这些有正事儿做的读者也许不知道，因手下人使用一些策略——包括窃听、犒赏爆料人、用独家新闻上把竞争对手打得满地找牙——传媒大亨默多克正遭受质询。政客们却聒噪起来，争相挤在镜头前表示此事令他们何等惊骇。不过，仅仅是惊骇而已。）
接着，在这出戏的当间儿，一件有趣的冲突将整个窃听事件抛到九霄云外。
一位自诩为喜剧演员、名叫马布勒斯的人据称在这庄严的时刻现身圣所，企图向老默多克脸上掷一碟“白色奶油蛋糕”，以博得15分钟的名望。
当然，按正派的新闻写作风格，我只是转述事件，尽管一切已被全世界镜头记录。在试图羞辱这位毫无还手之力的囚犯（默多克）前，这位滑稽的马布勒斯发竟在推特抒怀：
“一生所作所为，此刻最壮最美”。
在这紧要关头，前排球冠军队成员邓文迪飞身跃过桌面将闹事者和他的蛋糕一同打翻在地。没人能在向她丈夫扔蛋糕后一走了之。
当一个女人用行为证明1999年嫁给默多克所许“生死与共”诺言的诚意时，一股清风吹散了陈腐的政治气息。她赋予情侣（power couple）一词以力量（power）。
尽管文迪原籍中国，但人们想知道她是否也流着希腊女战士的血液。毕竟，她做了所有妻子和母亲在自己家庭受到白痴侵扰时想做的事：还击。
文迪对丈夫刻骨的爱令我们近来经常看到的某些政客妻子相形见拙——后者为保住绯闻老公的乌纱，咬牙切齿地为之站台，乞求公众施以怜悯。
周二听证会的英雄不是企图通过打击而得分的政客们，也不是出于己利贪婪报道默多克媒体过失的同行对手们。
周二听证会的英雄是一个女人，面对恶意挑衅，她没有在恐惧中战栗，没有等像摆设一样的警察出手相助。她就是文迪，她的吼声振聋发聩。
当闹剧平息，默多克脱下弄脏的外套，谢绝中断听证的要求。他与文迪高贵地坐回原处，彬彬有礼地回答质询。
全世界见证了一对真正的夫妻如何在公众面前共渡难关。
那些将来想找麻烦的人，你们要小心了。她飞得比子弹快，她不费吹灰之力越过听证会的桌子。她不是鸟，不是飞机。她是超人邓文迪，我们的英雄。
She Is Woman, Hear Her Roar -- Wendi Murdoch Fights Back
Wendi got game.
Those of us addicted to streaming news feeds at all hours of the day were numbly watching the public flogging that was hyped as hearings in the British Parliament on Tuesday, when the extraordinary happened. A woman rose up to stand by her man without a sex scandal in sight.
Rupert and James Murdoch were testifying about their recollection of events surrounding what has grown into the News of the World scandal.
(Those of you with better things to do might not know that the media mogul Murdoch is being questioned about the tactics some of his reporting staff undertook, including wire taps, paying for news tips and generally beating the competition to shreds with scoops. In response, politicians are clamoring for a chance to say – on camera – how horrified they are about the entire ordeal. Simply horrified.)
And then, in the middle of the spectacle, a good old-fashioned smack down put the entire event into perspective.
A self-proclaimed comedian “Jonnie Marbels” allegedly showed up at this solemn moment of pontification to attempt a shot at 15 minutes of fame by smacking the elder Murdoch in the face with a “white foam pie.”
Of course, in proper journalistic fashion, I write allegedly, despite the fact that it was caught on tape – worldwide – and that prior to attempting this humiliation of the prisoner in the stocks, the oh so funny Marbels “tweeted:”
"It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat"
But former champion volleyball player Wendi Deng Murdoch flew across the table to smack down the pie and put the heckler on the floor. Nobody was going to toss a pie at her husband and get away with it.
A breath of fresh air moved through the stale political air as one woman decided that she really meant “for better of for worse” when she married Rupert Murdoch in 1999. She put the “power” in power couple.
Though she is a native of China, one wonders if there isn’t a little Amazon in her blood. After all, she did what every wife and mother wants to do when someone behaves like a cretin towards her family. She fought back.
Her fierce loyalty to her husband was not the pale version that we’ve been forced to watch so often lately as other political wives grit their teeth to stand beside philandering mates, begging to stay on the public dole.
The hero of Tuesday’s hearings will not be found among the tired political figures trying to score points at Murdoch’s expense, or the journalist competitors to his media empire who salaciously report on every twist in this story of media misbehavior, in part out of self-interest.
The hero of Tuesday’s hearing is a woman who did not wait for some rent-a-cop to come to her aid or who trembled in horror at the malicious prank. Wendi was woman; hear her roar.
When the foam dust settled, Rupert Murdoch took off his spoiled jacket, and declined a break in the hearings. With dignity, he and Wendi again took their places, respectfully answering questions.
The world got to observe a real marriage at work in a moment of public difficulty.
But future pranksters, beware. Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall hearing tables with a single bound. It’s a bird; it’s a plane... No, it’s Super Wendi! My hero.
Kristi Stone Hamrick is a media consultant. News Corp. is the parent company of Fox News.
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