Major League Clymer
Bush should have just waded out into the press core and started pummeling this fag. I don't think most Americans would have objected.
What a tastless, ignorant questions -
Blair should have shot back "we hear from other journalists that you are an a**hole , how do you respond to that"
Who was the reporter who asked the question?
Just once I wish Blair would respond with this question.
"where were these poodle comments when I was an ally of Bill Clinton?"
If I were the President, I would have said: "I'm sorry if I was unclear. I asked for a question from a journalist. Who's next?"
This reporter doesn't seem to realize that he just made a clymer of himself.
People on the live action thread said that the reporter was a Brit. No more information than that.
I think the jerk should be outed for pulling a stupid trick like that on his country's leader while meeting with the leader of the free world outside of Britain. There's a time and a place for everything, and this was decidedly not the time or place.
," began the questioner at a joint appearance by the two leaders "
That's interesting that the article refers to him as 'the questioner.' I think good reporting would tell us who the journalist is who asked this. What an awful question to ask the Prime Minister. This is a disturbing new twist, where journalists are now also attacking foreign heads of state. Joe Lockhart and countless journalists still should have to answer for referring to Iraq's Allawi as a 'puppet.'
These idiot journalists just don't seem to understand that there are actually foreign leaders supporting Bush. They are operating under the assumption that everything Bush has done on the war on terror he has done alone. Therefore, they have to imagine that any foreign leader that is supporting Bush is in fact being forced into submission by the Bush Administration.
However, beyond that, the truth is the truth. The British government, the former Spanish government, the Aussies, the Italians, the Polish, etc.... have all committed troops and support to our government's fight in Afghanistan, Iraq, and all over the world.
This paragraph sums it all up:
"A wide section of the British public deeply dislikes Bush, viewing him as a unilateralist. The detention of four Britons without trial at Guantanamo Bay, his refusal to sign the Kyoto global warming protocol, his rejection of an international criminal court, and his invasion of Iraq without a specific green light from the United Nations add to his unpopularity."
THESE ARE THE EXACT REASONS WHY WE RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT BUSH. SO, GREAT BRITIAN, SCREW YOU.
Note that even AP was embarrassed for him, kindly keeping his name out of the hands of the unworthy masses who might properly label him a scumbag.
Mr Blair, As an American, you have my complete admiration. You exemplify Integrity.
Thank you for being our ally.
It's funny. The four reasons this reporter gives for Bush's unpopularity in Britain are four of the reasons he is such a great leader. That we refuse to accept a Eurocentric view of US interests absolutely drives the Euros and our traiterous MSM nuts.
Wow!! I love the editorialized comments!
I could easily say this 'reporter' appears in a snit because Blair & Bush are genuine allies, verbally slammed the press, and probably is still suffering a hangover since Bush was re-elected.
Blair and Bush are my heros. No one is going to ever remember this reporter 100 years from now.
"I would answer that question by saying that some of the British media are, perhaps unfairly, characterized as being the poodles of Labour and the socialist left. I was wondering if that's the way you may see your relationship?"
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