Does Rupert get it?

From The Observer (here):

Rupert Murdoch has thrown his weight behind his beleaguered management team as he prepared to fly to Britain to deal with the crisis engulfing News International (NI). Expressing his "total" support for NI's chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, he said: "I'm not throwing innocent people under the bus."

Unless of course those innocent people are the hapless employees of the News of the World, in which case under the bus is precisely where they'll go ...