Of course it was Wendi Deng who clocked the guy who tried to throw a pie at Rupert Murdoch in Parliament.
The media mogul's gorgeous wife had been speaking body language behind her husband that was so loud it distracted from his testimony.
Leaning forward, twisting, turning, and clenching her arms defensively whenever he spoke, she seemed protective from the start.
Being a cynic, I always figured Rupert's power and money won Wendi's heart - he's 80 and she's 42 - but still, she jumped to her feet faster than you can say "guy with a pie."
It was awesome to see Deng - a 6-foot-tall, serious volleyball player - leap up and spike the dude as one portly London bobby tried to hustle over to the pie-thrower and Rupert's son, James Murdoch, half-rose from his seat.
Not for nothing, but every hair on her head seemed to be back in place as she sat back down, just a couple feet from her husband.
The Murdochs couldn't have scripted it better.
"Wild Right Wendi" totally stole the show and took some of the attention away from the scandal over Murdoch's reporters bribing cops and hacking into the phones of murder victims.
The British public is so angry at the old "dirty digger" that Murdoch had to close his sleazy News of the World. Heck, even the head of Scotland Yard had to resign. And it's only going to get worse as new revelations come out about the methods his reporters and editors used.
Murdoch said Tuesday was the most "humbling" day of his life, and he seems genuinely sorry that reporters hacked into a murdered 13-year-old girl's phone.
Of course, he's also sorry that the empire he built may not go down to his son James right away, if ever. Sure, Murdoch folded News of the World, but only when advertisers like Ford and Virgin started to walk.
He did the same thing here. He loved the money coming in for his Fox News Channel with the likes of Glenn Beck, even after the right-wing demagogue said he'd like to choke Michael Moore to death, and that President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred of white people."
Only when advertisers abandoned Beck and he was no longer a cash cow did Murdoch jettison him.
Damage control, damage control, damage control.
Yeah, Rupert Murdoch, the ultimate media mogul with newspapers and TV stations all over the world, is on the ropes these days - but at least he's still got "Wild Right Wendi" swinging for him.
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