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October 4th, 2006You might call me a Tory, but I’ve always enjoyed the British government’s relationship with its people. It’s open, and it’s cordial. It’s honest in ways that ours will never be, and I like that about England.
Once settled, it is straight down to business with a question from Christopher, 11, who wants to know if Number 10 is bigger than it looks. Relieved to be avoiding questions about Iraq or police inquiries into cash-for-peerages, Mr Blair replies enthusiastically: “Yes — I mean a lot bigger, we call it, like, the Tardis.
There are several flats and there’s about 250 or 300 people that work here … people are in and out of your flat the whole time.” Huq asks if he ever wishes he could have a bit more privacy. “Sometimes yeah,” the Prime Minister replies dolefully. Next up is a question from Rima, 14, who stumps Mr Blair with a question about who is the most important person to visit Number 10.
“I suppose the best known would be Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton,” he replies, before remembering that the current US president is pretty important too. “George Bush is obviously er …,” he stutters before asking an aide: “Has George Bush actually been here, yeah, no he’s been here, yeah … and then you get other people that come in from time to time.”
With the Prime Minister still reeling, Huq slips in a sly question about whether he ever cooks for the family. “Can you cook even?” she demands. A flustered Mr Blair insists that he can, though admits that his children probably would not be very complimentary. “I think if I, if I had more time, I kind of feel I could be better at it,” he says. Brushing aside Huq’s rather impertinent question about whether he has mastered beans on toast, he adds: “The best dish I can, I can cook sort of spaghetti bolognese or something like that probably.”
The one touch of gravitas in the interview, pre-recorded in June, is a question from Amy, 12, who wants to know his best and worst experiences. Mr Blair chooses the events on July 6 and 7 last year. “We won the Olympics one day, and then we had the bombs the next day, which was an extraordinary high to a low.”
It’s nice that the media in their country can be trusted to not give the wrong party affiliation (deliberately o’course) of a pedophile in an effort to smear those of a certain persuasion. You didn’t hear about that? Last night, Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor ran a segment on Pedophile Congressman Mark Foley, which is all fine and well. It’s a viable news story, especially when you consider the Republican cover-up of the story. That’s not the problem — the problem is that they labeled Foley a Democrat on a visual in that screen. He is not a Democrat, of course, and never has been. Someone at Fox News decided to say he was, even for just a moment, in an effort to fool viewers and minimize damage to Republicans. For all the nonsense that Republicans give about “The Clinton News Network,” they’ve never done anything remotely like this.
There is only one place, in my opinion, where people should be getting their news from: The Office of the Independent Blogger. If that’s not your sole source, however, I fully recommend a little thing called a newspaper. It’s much better than televised news, and certainly better than talk radio and The Fox Network.
If the coverage of Mark Foley is an indicator of Fox News’ credibility, this news story shows us how shallow our present government is. They designated twenty million dollars last year to a future celebration of Victory-in-Iraq/Afghanistan Day. Where I come from, the government doesn’t have to spend twenty million to be hapy about a successful war. It doesn’t cost money to pray and send your thoughts into the universe, after all, and it doesn’t cost twenty million to give a speech declaring victory. A speech declaring victory can cost you your credibility in the eyes of the World and your own people, but not twenty million dollars.
The greatest thing you can have is your credibility, moreso than any dollar sum. Credibility, your abilities and love, and not necessarily in that order, either. Jack Abramoff doesn’t believe that, and neither does his friend Karl Rove, who has to know that history will judge him and his Boy poorly for such things as this, the latest chapter in Abramoff’s Saga.
From: Jack Abramoff
To: ‘octagon1′
Monday, March 18, 2002 8:31 AM
Subject: RE: SundayI was sitting yesterday with Karl Rove, Bush’s top advisor, at the NCAA basketball game, discussing Israel when this email came in. I showed it to him. It seems that the President was very sad to have to come out negatively regarding Israel, but that they needed to mollify the Arabs for the upcoming war on Iraq. That did not seem to work anyway. Bush seems to love Sharon and Israel, and thinks Arabfat [sic], is nothing but a liar. I thought I’d pass that on.
Jack Abramoff knew all about the War in Iraq a long time before anything was going down. It must be nice to be the President’s advisor’s friend. You know all about upcoming wars and can direct your clients to companies, like Halliburton, that they can invest their patriotic dollars into. This century sucks!