LOOKIN FER BAWMBS IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES. posted by Richard Seymour

Tony Blair today jumped into a huge pile of shit. At least, we know that his infamous dossiers were collectively the size, weight and quality of a dried cow-pat. Blair took his leap of bad faith at Prime Ministers Questions, offering an unabashed defense of the dossiers and their contents, claiming that not a single facts was disputed.

Quite amazingly, both Daisy Sampson and Andrew Neill took apart this ridiculous posturing (on the Daily Politics, the BBCs equivalent of the Indescribablyboring, sans Robert Fisk ). First, what about the alleged uranium being procured from the Niger, Neill wanted to know? Wasn't that claim based on forged documents? And what of the twelve year old thesis? Not a single fact in that plagiarised thesis was untrue, a former Campbell acolyte averred in coy defense of his one-time master. "But," Neill added, "IT'S TWELVE YEARS OUT OF DATE!!!"

Naturally, the government had "acknowledged" this "mistake". It wasn't the greatest "communications triumph". Quite. But then, lying through your teeth and being caught out is never a terrific PR conquest.