How "The Sun" Shown On Bush/Blair After Phone Chats With Murdoch

[kpete]

Tony Blair had three conversations with the media magnate Rupert Murdoch in the nine days before the start of the Iraq war, the Government has disclosed.

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Yesterday the Cabinet Office said there were six telephone discussions between Mr Blair and Mr Murdoch in 20 months, all at crucial moments of his premiership. The subject of their calls was not revealed.

http://miaculpa.blogspot.com/2007/07/oh-my-fucking-gawd.html


The calls... and the editorial response

How 'The Sun' shone on Tony Blair after his phone chats with proprietor Rupert Murdoch


Phone call: 11 March 2003

The Sun says: 12 March 2003

"Like a cheap tart who puts price before principle, money before honour, Jacques Chirac struts the streets of shame. The French President's vow to veto the second resolution (on Iraq) at the United Nations - whatever it says - puts him right in the gutter."


Phone call: 13 March 2003

The Sun says: 14 March 2003

"Charlatan Jacques Chirac is basking in cheap applause for his 'Save Saddam' campaign - but his treachery will cost his people dear. This grandstanding egomaniac has inflicted irreparable damage on some of the most important yet fragile structures of international order."


Phone call: 19 March 2003

The Sun says: 20 March 2003

"Time has run out for Saddam Hussein. His day of reckoning is at hand. The war on Iraq has begun... The courage and resilience of Tony Blair and George Bush will now be put to the ultimate test."

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2782514.ece

[pacalo]

1. "...puts (Chirac) in the gutter" -- classy language.

We know that anything the Sun says, the opposite is true.