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July 19, 2006

On Poodleness and Servility

Moving away from pure MENA commentary, I wanted to signal my amusement with this satirical comment in The Times:

RORY BREMNER must feel like giving up. For years he’s done his best to parody George Bush’s strangled syntax and Tony Blair’s White House poodle act, yet here he is, on the night, completely outclassed by the guys themselves. The Bush-Blair cross-talk, picked up by a lurking microphone at the G8 summit in St Petersburg, was beyond satire.

Can you imagine Bremner allowing a line like “Yo, Blair, how are ya doin’?” into his script? He’d be laughed off stage. As for Mr Blair’s stumbling attempt to justify a trip to the Middle East in advance of Condoleezza Rice, it is surely too cringe-making to be allowed on television. I’m not even sure if readers of The Times can bear to hear it again, but here goes: “Well, it’s only if, I mean, you know. If she’s got a, or if she needs the ground prepared, as it were. Because obviously if she goes out, she’s got to succeed, if it were, whereas I can go out and just talk.” As a bleak definition of British diplomacy and its limitations today, that takes a lot of beating.

Servile, but there is no small amount of truth. One does rather have the sense that Blair wants Bush to play with him just a bit too much, whereas Bush is just a vulgar whanker, but that is hardly news.

So, contra my old CIA mate, some whores still want to be seen with you.

Posted by The Lounsbury at July 19, 2006 07:15 PM
Filed Under: Politics - EU FP , Politics - Foreign Policy

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