Dog Day Afternoon
This from today’s Independent:
After his stop-over in Washington, Mr Blair will fly on to California tonight to attend a conference with the media magnate Rupert Murdoch. An ally of Mr Murdoch, Irwin Stelzer, insisted Mr Blair was not Mr Bush’s “poodle”, but his “guide dog”, particularly over the Middle East.
Blair’s visit to Washington is a ’stop-over’. Fortunately the Lebanon crisis has emerged at the same time as Rupert Murdoch putting on his Californian shindig. Blair was going to America anyway, so now he can squeeze in a quick meeting with George. Synchronicity in action.
The guest list for Murdoch’s conference is impressive, Al Gore, John McCain, Bono, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bill Clinton – faces you don’t see collected together outside Bilderberg Group jollies.
I also like the fact that Murdoch ‘ally’, Stelzer, His Master’s Voice in other words, referred to Blair not as a Bush’s ‘poodle’ but as his ‘”guide dog”, particularly over the Middle East’.
Now, you can get two types of guide dog, dogs for the deaf and dogs for the blind. Which of these did Stelzer have in mind?
Posted on July 28th, 2006 at 10:59am under Blair, UK politics, US Politics
The lesser known “dogs for the independence-challenged”, i feel.
Thinking dogs for the stupid?
Dog of War ? … should I let that slip ….
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Curiously, Irwin Stelzer that journeyman journo has an article in this week’s “Spectator” ..with his instructions from Rupe.
Why Blair is standing by Bush now
Irwin Stelzer, Washington
“Whether Tony Blair decides to oblige the braying Brownites and step down at the next party conference, or hang in there until the 2007 Labour party gathering, doesn’t much matter when it comes to appraising the much-mocked Blair–Bush relationship. In relatively short order, both men will have reached the end of their careers in electoral politics, bringing to a close an amazing relationship between your Prime Minister and my President. And one that is badly misunderstood.” …..