InsaneApache
01-18-2006, 12:54
Tomorrow Channel 4 will be screening Tony Blair Rock Star, a “documentary” recording the Prime Minister’s teenage enthusiasm for rock music and his desire to make a living in the pop industry. I’ve placed the word documentary in inverted commas because straight, and reasonably fair, interviews with Mr Blair’s contemporaries are intercut with an impersonation of him as a teenager designed to make him look entirely ridiculous. The drama sections are comic fantasy, only loosely related to the evidence the film makers collected. The aim is to belittle the Prime Minister. As Channel 4 put it: “Blair is portrayed as fame-obsessed, someone who had no interest in politics but forever craved the limelight.”
Deary me (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/default.stm)
I would glady have forked out £2000 on a Gretch for Linton to play on, if he'd promised to stay out of politics.
How does a boy from an upper-class public school become leader of the working-class movement and attract the middle class to its cause?
By lying?
So thoughts guys. Would you rather have seen him on pop idol or as the Prime Minister? Now where did I put that plectrum?
Deary me (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/default.stm)
I would glady have forked out £2000 on a Gretch for Linton to play on, if he'd promised to stay out of politics.
How does a boy from an upper-class public school become leader of the working-class movement and attract the middle class to its cause?
By lying?
So thoughts guys. Would you rather have seen him on pop idol or as the Prime Minister? Now where did I put that plectrum?