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Monday, January 23, 2006

Off-Topic Post: Blowjobs and Going to War Across the pond, Chicken Yogurt is covering a news scandal concerning a heretofore unknown politican (to me anyway) who made a bid to become the leader of the only effective opposition party in the UK and was then "outed" by the gutter press that Rupert Murdoch runs. In reading Chicken Yogurt's blog he linked a piece by Max Hastings in the Guardian.
Most striking of all, there is something shockingly wrong with our process of democratic accountability when Tony Blair remains in Downing Street after taking the country to war on a false pretext. Yet we can be confident that he would be obliged to resign if exposed in dalliance with a prostitute of either sex. For the media to investigate misgovernment requires endless labour for uncertain results and often little thanks from readers or viewers. Uncovering sexual lapses is incomparably easier. All that is needed is to persuade a second party to talk, usually for cash. It is even possible for newspapers to argue that to refuse lovers a right to tell their stories is to compromise free speech.
My point: Well George and his poodle say there is a "special relationship" between the USA and the UK, I think I know what it is now, it is the gutter that journalists live in.

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