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First Class Badass?

July 20, 2011 10:22 pm

If I read one more post stating that Murdoch’s wife is a badass I’m going to scream.

Iron Man is a badass. The Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu characters in Kill Bill are bad asses. The Trưng Sisters were, and Navy Seals are, bad asses.

Mrs Murdoch is a smart wealthy women with fine reflexes. She jumped up to protect an 80 year old man from a shaving foam pie.

Badass?

I think any average non badass would have done the same.

The media is out of control.

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24 Thoughts on “First Class Badass?”

  1. Sterling (Chip) CamdenNo Gravatar on July 21, 2011 at 12:26 am said:

    +1
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  2. benNo Gravatar on July 21, 2011 at 12:45 am said:

    Simple people, the media. And I do mean simple.
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  3. joegNo Gravatar on July 21, 2011 at 12:56 am said:

    Shaft. Shaft was a badass.

  4. EsotericWombatNo Gravatar on July 21, 2011 at 10:03 am said:

    For me, the best part of those hearings was when James Murdoch was asked if he had heard of the legal term “willful ignorance,” and he said he hadn’t. At which point, Rupe blundered into the exchange saying “I have heard of it and I assure you we haven’t done it.”

    Totally convincing
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  5. GNo Gravatar on July 21, 2011 at 10:04 am said:

    The media love the beautiful woman old man scenario and this makes a good story even if exaggerated. The dull public understand this. Who wants to write about unemployment, the Bachmann family’s farm welfare and the continued coorprate hazing of America, when you can write about this?
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  6. protagorasNo Gravatar on July 21, 2011 at 12:08 pm said:

    It seems to me most badasses have security blankets of some sort. Money in the bank, superior technology, lots ‘o friends, people in high places, influence, etc.

    In a twist-about sort of way, they’re people making calculated decisions, which largely have been strategized to make them as safe and cozy as possible.

    People who do the same things without security blankets, I think we call psychos.

    In a cultural hypnosis of sorts were expected to believe these people are taking huge risks….but relatively speaking they aren’t.

    Speaking as someone who rollerblades at night, I’ve already done the math many times over for when one of my blades gets unexpectantly pulled out from beneath me. These boys and girls have done the math. She’s seen the pie thrown at other celebs.

    Just my take.

  7. protagorasNo Gravatar on July 21, 2011 at 12:10 pm said:

    Missus Murdock ;)

  8. BennetNo Gravatar on July 22, 2011 at 12:52 am said:

    This is true.
    My first thoughts after discovering who she is, were:” Wow!, so it is true, crusty old wealthy white men can obtain sexy younger vibrant women under the delusion of marriage vows. It’s not a satirical Hollywood myth after all.”

    But my first reaction can often be very general, and overly judgmental when I’m routing for the pie guy.
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  9. DougNo Gravatar on July 22, 2011 at 10:30 am said:

    Probably not a ninja, then, either.

  10. BoneNo Gravatar on July 23, 2011 at 3:59 pm said:

    I’m trying to think of a girl I’ve dated who would’ve done the same for me…..

    Drawing a blank here.
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  11. K. SyrahNo Gravatar on July 24, 2011 at 3:34 pm said:

    The media is watching it’s relevance slip further and further down, and they’re resorting to simple entertainment tactics. It’s sad, but it happens.
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  12. Billy FlynnNo Gravatar on July 25, 2011 at 9:35 am said:

    There was a time that you had to “earn” reputations; it seems in today’s instant media you simply need to be christened with it. I wonder if she drives a lorrie with a lift kit and a Union Jack in the rear window?
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  13. piaNo Gravatar on July 25, 2011 at 10:28 am said:

    I have slept my way through this. it bores me. However marrying for money–why not? It’s as honest as a couple of thousand a night hooker. Both women derive benefits but the marriage might provide more tangible and intangible rewards. (Ever since I moved into an apartment formerly occupied by a madam, my next door neighbor was “kept” by a man with two famous last names, and I was always taken for a “school girl hooker” I’ve kept an open mind on the subject. Though when the opportunities presented themselves couldn’t. I’m not sure that was the right decision now