“Tiger Wife” Wendi Deng Mauls Murdoch’s Pie Attacker, in NMA Animation [VIDEO]

Wendi Deng (pictured in a pink jacket) is the Chinese-born third wife of the News Corporation overlord Rupert Murdoch. And now, after a speedy leap to her husband’s defense when confronted with a protestor/prankster brandishing a “pie” on a paper plate, she is being lauded as a “tiger wife” by some people.

In that spirit, Taiwan’s Next Media group has sprung its digital animators into action, in a video that reports the event and also turns Mrs Deng, 42, into an actual, leg-mauling tiger. There’s also a rather disturbing three seconds long scene of the 80-year old media baron giving his four-decade younger wife – to use the crude, childish parlance of one of Murdoch’s rags – a bonking. Let’s see how much Chinese netizens enjoy watching that.

The pie attack put some British slapstick into the tense proceedings at the House of Commons inquiry, where Rupert Murdoch and his son James – now chief executive at News Corp – were called before a government panel. They were ordered to be there to answer questions related to the decade-long hacking of the voicemail accounts at the News of the World – and perhaps other Murdoch papers/stations? – in search of scoops. The hacking victims proved to be anyone from murdered children to politicians or celebrities – all in the name of the News of the World’s trashy sensationalism that Murdoch apparently thinks of as journalism.

Hopefully, the prankster’s pie won’t distract the world’s often short-sighted media from the weight and complexity of the charges leveled at these senior News Corp executives – including long-time News of the World editor, Rebekah Brooks – which are serious and heinous, and reveal institutional corruption and criminality.

On that tricky segue, here’s Next Media’s take on Wendi Deng: