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...Heroes were in short supply. Gilligan defended the basic thrust of his reporting, but admitted he had overstated the case against Alastair Campbell, Blair's communications chief, for "sexing up" the September dossier on Iraq's weapons. BBC managers, reeling under a ferocious assault from Campbell, looked hapless as they described a stout defense of Gilligan mounted without checking the foundations of his report. Excerpts from Campbell's diary released last week showed how eager he was to "out" Kelly after he advised his bosses he didn't think what he told Gilligan could possibly be the source...
...someone please tell me which country I'm living in? Last week I sat down and watched a popular new television phenomenon. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy turned out to be a hilarious reality show in which five New York City homosexuals fix a hapless straight guy's home, hair, clothes and culture in order to win the heart of his female love interest. Here was a wonderful example of straight men and gay men communicating, laughing and getting along. And the gay guys were all about affirming the straight guy's relationship. At one point, the straight...
...STOPS HERE, adopted by President Harry Truman (shown here in 1959 at the Truman presidential library in Independence, Missouri). Observed Brad Nelson of Ypsilanti, Michigan: "Unlike Truman, it seems that George W. Bush would rather pass the buck." William C. Ellerman of Silver Spring, Maryland, quipped, "By making the hapless CIA agents the fall guys, Bush signaled that THE BUCK STOPS ANYWHERE BUT HERE." And Ron Bonn of San Diego deduced, "Bush has evidently amended Truman's sign to read THE BUCK STOPS OVER THERE AT TENET'S PLACE...
...This government had so much good will in 1997. Alastair is the one most responsible that they have this reputation for mendacity, and have made so many unnecessary enemies." In person Campbell seems an unlikely Goebbels. Breezy, articulate, charismatic, accomplished on the bagpipes and a lifelong supporter of the hapless Burnley football club, he gives off a blokish charm and confidence. Veteran reporters he has publicly tongue-lashed and undercut by leaking to competitors still tend to like him personally. As chief political reporter for Robert Maxwell's pro-Labour Daily Mirror when Neil Kinnock was party leader, Campbell became...
...However, in the Philippines last week, as self-confessed Indonesian bombmaker Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi and two Abu Sayyaf kidnap-gang members strolled out of a supposedly high-security prison cell on July 14, we were reminded yet again that this war is only as effective as the most hapless institution drafted into the fight...