I was thinking about Alastair Campbell and his little rants against the press this week and was amazed at his chutzpah.
I mean here is a man who spent his time in the previous government manipulating the press. I was thinking that as annoying as tapping into a c-list celeb’s voicemail to see how many times she has split up with her boyfriend, that the consequences are nowhere near as grave as 1000s of killed Iraqis. But hey what is the life of thousands of people that you are partly responsible for killing and maiming when you can have a cheap dig at ‘the right wing press’ or the ‘Murdoch machine’.
We watched over years as Alastair Campbell and other spin doctors manipulated the press and the country to further their own political agendas and to have the ability with a straight face to criticize the press for what he has made a career out of takes tremendous ram sized balls.
I was thinking all of this and then read this wonderful article on the daily mash
Repeat after me
“Forty five minutes. Invasion of Iraq. No weapons.”