BERNSTEIN ON BLAIR: NIXON WASN'T SO COOL

By Carl Bernstein, Legendary Washington Post Reporter Who Uncovered The Watergate Scandal

THE Kelly suicide saga was yesterday reduced to a story about the shrunken stature of Tony Blair.


The once invincible Prime Minister, stripped now of the majesty of his office and dragged into the dock of a dingy courtroom at the foot of Fleet Street. The gravitas of his person and his position lost in this suitably seedy venue.

Consider the courtroom itself. More like a dull classroom than a seat of judicial might: Swiss cheese ceiling, filthy carpet, empty bookcases and cheap chairs from some Office Depot outlet, almost all occupied yesterday by the ink-stained wretches and broadcast journalists so despised (not always unreasonably) by the occupants of 10, Downing Street and The White House.


Plasma TV screens on either side of witness stand announced the day's proceedings: "Thursday, 28th August 2003 (10:30 am), Mr Tony Blair (called); examined by Mr. Dingemans." Mr Blair.


Not Prime Minister Blair.

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I didn't think Bernstein wrote anymore?

for "filthy carpet, empty bookcases and cheap chairs" substitute
filthy bastards, empty rhetoric, cheap foreign policy

if you really want to get to the hub of David Kelly's untimely death.

Was it really suicide? Makes me wonder if Enron's Cliff Baxter also really topped himself, June last year......

of those things we pretend we believe in.

...which refers to this as a "judicial inquiry... on the death, apparently by suicide, of a British weapons scientist, David Kelly."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/29/opinion/29FRI2.html

It's quite curious how many major sources continue to put that little bit of distance between themselves and the official story, given that the less cautious routinely refer to it as a suicide without the qualifier.

I think this illustrates your point--something we're pretending we believe in--rather nicely.

didn't they always say suicide?

Not often I read the Mirror I tell ya!

Just goes what happens when the lust for power replaces the need to serve the country that you are supposed to govern Mr Blair.