Rebekah Brooks’s Text Message to David Cameron: “We’re Definitely in This Together!”

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Political week at the Leveson Inquiry concludes today with an appearance by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who “rejected suggestions that he traded policies for electoral support by Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers.” Oh yeah? What about Cameron’s landmark piece of (fictitious) legislation: every man, woman, and child in Britain is required to buy a daily copy of The Sunand destroy two copies of The Guardian?

Was Cameron’s relationship with Murdoch and Tim Burtonesque Murdoch protegee Rebekah Brooks too cozy? Cameron says no. The Inquiry says, check out this 2009 text message from Brooks to Cameron on the occasion of a speech to his own political party: “I am so rooting for you tomorrow not just as a proud friend but because professionally we’re definitely in this together! Speech of your life? Yes he Cam.”

Two funny things: one, the text literally says “professionally we’re definitely in this together!” In the eventual movie version of the Leveson Inquiry and hacking scandal—The Sun Also Sets, out Christmas 2016—the message “professionally we’re definitely in this together!” would be cut from the script due to lack of believability. Two, “Yes he Cam,” oh my God.