"The clear best choice for next [UN] secretary general is ... Tony Blair."

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Not a joke, apparently. And yet this is the greatest end of article punchline since 'so-and-so was the drummer for Gay Dad.' That wacky NRO.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Say what you like, dude knows how to get things ~~done~~ bombed.

― Doctor Jaggernathy (noodle vague), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

::looks at calendar::

Nope, it's not 1st April.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

That article is both laughable and horribly depressing.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Besides typical 'UN OH NOES' paranoia, it's reflective of a crazily bizarre strand of thinking over here re: Blair among the right. It's always interesting seeing the expat Brits at the NRO heap revulsion on Blair while you have Americans like Podhoretz going, "But I don't get it! He stood with us against terrorism! That makes him good, right?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

ned, really, please stop reading nro. it can't be good for you.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Well they have had an ex-Nazi as Secretary General before... mind you, I'd take an ex-Nazi over Blair any day

― Mike Giggler (Dada), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

ned, really, please stop reading nro. it can't be good for you.

Heard it before, Stence, and I disagree. I *want* to know what they're thinking. I already know what I think and I don't need it endlessly reconfirmed per se.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

ned at this point its pretty clear you know what they think too

― and what (ooo), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

It's like when I used to read the Daily Mail as a teenager until I was twisted with hatred and rage. 's not healthy.

― Doctor Jaggernathy (noodle vague), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Sure, but they're still the ones with access to power, for now -- and that's the other key point. When said power gets threatened is when they get even more interesting to observe.

Noodle, it's interesting -- there are those out there who can and do reduce me to that state pretty readily. I pretty much avoid Coulter and Hannity, for a start. Malkin, RedState and especially the horror that is Hewitt get me there pretty quickly but they're also interesting to observe in a crisis (even of sorts) -- thus my checking in on them this past week, but unless something completely crazy happens re: Foley fallout that's all I'll need for a long while.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I *want* to know what they're thinking.

there is no they're there

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I've been done told.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah Ned I'm not really saying there are no Right writers worth reading. But sometimes there is a depressing fascination to reading too many of them.

― Doctor Jaggernathy (noodle vague), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, to be sure.

(As I had to note the other day, this is not my ONLY political reading, thanks very much. The full list of news and blogsites I trawl is pretty extensive.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

It is true that I frequent NRO more often than left-wing websites these days, but the former are never more entertaining than when deploying torturous logic and gnarled prose to defend utter nonsense.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Very. A lot of this stuff is *funny* precisely because it is so absurd. Of course it's the blackest of humor since the stakes are so high, but you have to learn to laugh (thus my reaction when I scanned the story at the start of this thread and hit its conclusion).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

Mr Silvio wants Blair as European President, which hopefully will kill the idea stone dead, (although I would miss the potential LOLs from Cameron as PM vs Blair as president of europe)

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/exposure/picture_gallery/slideshows/090415-silvio-berlusconi-quotes-gaffes.aspx_ss_image_4.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8307267.stm

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link

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