The Committee for Culture Media and Sport are having good sport with James and Rupert Murdock this morning.
(Live on Current TV)
What is striking is how little Rupert seems to know, and how often James tries to answer for him.
What is not surprising is how unresponsive and uninformative James' answers are to any substantive question.
For example, "How much has News International paid in settlement for hacking and spying?"
Long answer: All payments were vetted by the people in charge and approved of individually. All payments were made with propriety. Payments are made in many locations for different reasons. We have reviews and supervision of what payments are made and the underlying reasons.
Short answer: We don't know.
Some of the questioning has been brilliant, many of the answers have been meek, unsure, and not informative, especially from Rupert.
In one weird way, it feels like James is Dick Cheney, and Rupert is W, as to how serious questions are not answered, but talked around and avoided.
Eleven people have been arrested, the top two cops have resigned, the second, rather petulantly.
(John Yates) told the committee: "I can assure you all that I have never lied and all the information that I've provided to this committee has been given in good faith.
"It is a matter of great concern that, for whatever reason, the News of the World appears to have failed to co-operate in the way that we now know they should have with the relevant police inquiries up until January of this year.
"They have only recently supplied information and evidence that would clearly have had a significant impact on the decisions that I took in 2009 had it been provided to us.
Talk about sleaze. He was in charge of the investigation, he found no wrong doing, and now he is blaming the media for his own failures. Between the allegations of bribes and worse, this top copper may see prisons from a whole different perspective.
One more quick observation. If James talks about quality, propriety, doing what is right, or how great we are to cooperate with the cops, I may vomit.