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Alastair Campbell was whoring his book on The Daily Show of all place the other night. Just goes to show how desperate he is to shift product, I suppose. What price dignity?
Worth it for Jon Stewart’s pay off.
Posted on August 1st, 2007 at 3:22 pm
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Thanks for posting that interesting (and funny) viewing. I don’t think you can blame Campbell for wanting to promote his book though.
I don’t blame him at all. It was just an incredibly perverse platform on which to do so, I thought. What did he think he was going to get? As it was, Stewart was merciful.
I couldn’t watch all of it the other night.
He was given far too much of an easy ride.
I remember AC guesting on ‘They Think It’s All Over’ (a laddish sports quiz show for those not from these shores) and thinking :
1. Why the hell is he on there?
and
2. Why is this guy being such a good time by the host and his mates? Are they so interested in chasing ratings and their own careers that they don’t give a toss who the have on.
Made me wretch.
Well there was the sporting connection - he did for the reputation of English rugby the same he did for that of British politics. Think what Sean Bean did to Joely Richardson in ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’.
That a man who corrupted our political system utterly,and falsified intelligence in a conspiracy to attack another sovereign state can now hawk his memoirs around news studios tells us all we need to know about the fragile condition of our national culture.
Were he indicted at Nuremberg for what was deemed at the time to be the most heinous crime of all:conspiring to attack another country to whit,he would be dangling from a rope right now.
In fact it would be hard to think of someone who makes the case more convincingly for the reintroduction of capital punishment.
A liar with the blood of up to a million Iraqis on his hands feted and lauded as a bit of a lad in his home country tells us all we need to know about our capacity for genuine moral integrity.
I couldn’t stomach Campbell’s insistence that he wasn’t responsible for David Kelly’s suicide.He told Andrew Marr some weeks back that the scientist’s death was not his responsibilty.
Most of us have worked out,if and when we give it any thought at all,that Kelly probably didn’t commit suicide at all but is far more likely to have been a victim of the same dark forces on whose behalf Campbell worked.
Yes our claims to moral rectitude are abjectly hollow when people like Campbell are at large and free to hawk their memoirs.