Blair hating update

Bouyed by the success of its green-ink supplement last week, the Daily Mail has gone one further and printed an entire edition thus today (although it shows up in black and white in scans, right).

I refer the honourable reader to the reply I gave some moments ago. (Although I realise that this once-sacred piece of the parliamentary catechism will mean nothing to some of you: it was the ritual reply to the question on the order paper asking the Prime Minister to list his engagements for the day, which was the excuse to ask a supplementary question about more or less anything, until PM’s Questions was reformed in the early Blair years.)

However, it is worth noting, as David Aaronovitch does, the casual and offensive insinuation in the Mail article that Tony Blair and Janice Kelly, David Kelly’s widow, lied to the Hutton inquiry:

Witnesses, who included Dr Kelly’s widow, Janice, and Tony Blair, were not questioned under oath.

Meanwhile, in other Blair-hating news, the Mail failed to mention in its report of Tony Blair’s being awarded the 2010 Liberty Medal, that he would be giving the $100,000 prize money that he “rakes in” to two of his charities, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the Africa Governance Initiative.

But then The Guardian didn’t either.

Update: The Guardian has published a correction. The Daily Mail has not.

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• http://www.prozrachny.com Neil McGowan

  Britain’s leading Quisling comes up with more empty distracting tosh as the evidence for Blair’s stinking war is lablelled “built on sand”. No comment on *that*, however, JR?

• http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/3W7NIFFU67YAUP7GWUXMC27LC4 Billion

  ”Meanwhile, in other Blair-hating news, the Mail failed to mention in its report of Tony Blair’s being awarded the 2010 Liberty Medal, that he would be giving the $100,000 prize money that he “rakes in” to two of his charities, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the Africa Governance Initiative.”

  Tony Blair forgot to mention to Parliment, the military and the public that Iraq didn’t have any WMD’s , as a result over a million people murdered a nation destroyed.

• http://twitter.com/Broxted Ciaran Rehill

  Sir, I have evidence of Blair kicking the face off a baby otter. Is there no end to the man’s talents? Why do folks constantly harp on about a few thousand dead troops? Why not look at Tony’s achievements, 3500 new laws, ending jury trials, the loss of right to silence, nicking Maya Evans & Walther Wolfgang…

• Dravazed

  Why would anyone hate Mr. Blair? A man of unimpeachable probity, exemplary humanity, and boundless generosity.

  Just ask the Iraqis.

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• http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/HHXWAI36BFRLTEGCYXYEI3VHBU DaLaconic

  wow, this journalist is every bit as sinister as he looks. He still thinks that murdering hundreds of thousands of iraqis to shore up the profits of US oil companies is just fine, simply to appear consistent in his views. He will be a great asset to truth shaping in the Dave New World

• http://reactionarytimes.co.uk/ CreamOnTop

  You don’t need to lie or insinuate with Blair just tell the truth how he back fitted policy to rhetoric.

  Oh and the wars. The failure to control our troops when we finally ended up claiming we were there to free them…

  And no one mention the hundreds of un-necessary deaths because not cleaning hospitals and foundation status chasing were such good ideas.

• JohnBEllis

  Too bad … When I saw the title to this and clicked the link, I thought it might take me to a club worth joining. And I bet there’d be more takers for it across the country at large than Mr Rentoul could find for his TBAS* ….* – “Tony Blair Appreciation Society”

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• finsburyparker

  Not surprised he took the ‘Liberty Medal’,….Who else has taken so many ‘Liberties’ whilst in a position of trust & power?………Apart from G. Bushwhacker!

  G. Peasemould.