Blair continues his love affair with Murdoch and the wingnuts

Ugh, this guy makes me sick to my stomach. He's truly revolting and has no shame about sucking up to Murdoch and his wingnut media machine. The latest story is about Blair's chat with the right wing media mogul last week in NY during the 60th anniversary of the UN. Boy do I sympathize with my friends in the UK who have to tolerate that guy.

I primarily watched CNN coverage which was pretty good, the best they've offered in years but what I did see of the BBC seemed OK to me. Pointing out the failure of an administration that failed miserably to protect Americans is completely fair to me and Clinton's criticism is off as well as far as I'm concerned. This team ran on the theme of keeping Americans safe and they did not even come close and while it's embarrassing, the fact remains that they were failures. These people have a hard time listening and being gentle never seems to register with this team. Remember, Bush doesn't do nuance, as he bragged about before.

"Tony Blair... told me yesterday that he was in Delhi last week and he turned on the BBC World Service to see what was happening in New Orleans, and he said it was just full of hate at America and gloating about our troubles," the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation said.

"If it's an accurate record, Mr Murdoch has provided a fascinating glimpse of his private relationship with Mr Blair," he said. "It may not come as a great surprise that the Prime Minister aims to please Murdoch but it comes as a bit of a shock he goes this far." He added: "Mr Blair, it might be said, is hardly the best judge of the impartiality of news coverage, given his behaviour in the run-up to the Iraq war."

If only this was his only interaction with Murdoch, but no, his team apparently even changed internal memo's to dilute the realities.

Tony Blair promised Rupert Murdoch that he would be consulted on any change to Britain's policy towards Europe, according to a diary kept by a former Downing Street press officer.

The idea that an Australian-born newspaper magnate should have a veto over Britain's relations with Europe will infuriate Labour supporters. The version that will appear in the diary, to be published by Hodder this month, will read: "apparently, News International are under the impression we won't make any changes without asking them."

Birds of a feather...