Jon Stewart on How the Rupert Murdoch Scandal Makes Fox News Sad

Well, in Newsville they say that Fox News' small heart grew three sizes that day…

Coverage continues after the jump.

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Rupert Murdoch Miraculously Survives Attempted Pie Attack

Oh, this is terrible. This is so so terrible.

Rupert Murdoch — CEO of News Corp, which owns news outlets around the world, including Fox News and the New York Post in the United States — was brought before British Parliament to discuss his involvement in the phone-hacking of a murdered girl, 9/11 victims, multiple celebrities and a U.K. head of state. And some guy came out of nowhere with a pie tin full of shaving cream with which attempted to hit Murdoch in the face.

Great. Now this news story is turning into a circus…

A protester rushed at Rupert Murdoch as he gave testimony to British lawmakers Tuesday, setting off a scuffle and spattering Murdoch with what appeared to be white foam in a foil pie dish in a shocking interruption of a hearing into the phone hacking scandal that's rocked the media baron's global empire.

After more than two hours of testimony, a man in a plaid shirt appeared to run toward Murdoch before being struck by his wife Wendi Deng.

Police in the back of the committee room were holding an apparently handcuffed man with white foam covering his face and shirt. The foam also appeared to have hit Murdoch's suit.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Murdoch family now, in this very trying moment.

Maybe some of our phone messages, too. It's definitely possible.

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Stephen Colbert on Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire Troubles

Do you know what I would do right now if I were Rupert Murdoch and I found myself caught in the widening gyre of this News of the World scandal? I'd climb into the sack of a kangaroo and have it hop me away back to merry ol' Australia where nothing ever goes wrong and everybody always smiles.

But I suppose such childishly simplistic views of the world have no place in News Corp. or any of its properties…

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John Oliver Comforts Jon Stewart Over the Dissolution of American Pride

It's kinda cute the way the U.S. media jumps all over "news" stories like Casey Anthony's murder trial and Anthony Weiner's Twitter crotch and Sarah Palin's Sarah Palin. Though, it is genuinely humbling to watch Rupert Murdoch's News of the World implosion unfold from across the pond and see how far we truly have to fall…

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