god, max, you've really got me laughing out loud and staying on here much longer than warranted by your incredibly evil minded but unfortunately totally unintelligent, by now simply dim witted games, at this stage you're really in serious danger of losing your status as spin master, dissembler and fact twister in chief. tell me, as you seem to take great pride, why, i haven't a clue, but nevertheless that's what you're doing, in pretending to great knowledge about the world at large, what is the numero uno club in paris? btw, that's paris france, not texas, hehe. max, take some advice, just take your prozac, and you won't have to suffer from paranoia any more, actually, all will be well. Are You Ready to be Happy? No matter what things in life upset you, there is a Prozac-Pez Dispenser for you! Order your Prozac-Pez Dispensers using your AMERICAN DEPRESSED card! http://www.thegoodnamesweretaken.com/ProzacPez/prozac.htm
Tony Blair's official spin doctor Alastair Campbell has delivered a robust defence of his role amid claims he has abused his position, deliberately misled journalists and laid down the law to ministers. Appearing before a powerful committee of MPs, he came under concerted attack from Tory members who demanded he released copies of the so-called "Campbell Tapes" of daily briefings to political journalists. Mr Campbell denied ever describing Chancellor Gordon Brown as "psychologically flawed" or briefing against ministers including Frank Dobson and David Clark. He said he knew he had been blamed for the attacks, but said he had no idea where they had come from. "I have not briefed against any member of the cabinet. I happen to think you can put across the government's case in a coherent and coordinated way without briefing against anybody," he said. The MPs particularly pressed him to hand over tapes covering a briefing Mr Campbell had given concerning a controversial telephone call earlier this year between the prime minister and Italian premier Romano Prodi. Tapes row One newspaper had suggested Mr Blair had attempted to intervene with his opposite number over a possible business deal by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. Mr Campbell dismissed the allegation, insisting he had never briefed one way or the other on the contents of the conversation, and said he would hunt for the tapes. But, to the anger of the Tories, he signalled it was highly unlikely he would be able to provide them as they had probably been reused. "You should not invest too much seriousness in them. They are not kept for posterity," he said. He said he would consider whether written transcripts should be kept of all future briefings he gives to political journalists. But he added it would have to be considered whether such a move was a good use of public money. 'Mildy obsessed' Mr Campbell slapped aside claims he was more powerful than some cabinet ministers and, turning his fire on the Tory MPs, declared: "Your party is mildly obsessed about me and Peter Mandelson (minister without portfolio). My role is hugely overstated. I could not move policy even if I wanted to," he said. He admitted he had written to social security ministers Harriet Harman and Frank Field warning them against leaks of government policy. But he insisted he had been acting as the prime minister's official spokesman - not on his own behalf. "In terms of anything I would say to a minister, it is not me that is speaking it is the spokesman of the prime minister." The public administration committee is investigating the alleged politicisation of the civil service and the job of official spokesman, which was removed from the civil service by Mr Blair. Mr Campbell's appearance had been anticipated for weeks by politicians and journalists who had been looking forward to a volatile clash. Tories David Ruffley and Richard Shepherd led the assault on the tapes - leading Mr Campbell to declare: "I can see 'the Campbell tapes' is going to be your headline." But he also delivered a comprehensive defence of his position insisting it was right that, unlike his predecessors, he was now able to rebut political attacks on the prime minister. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/118730.stm max, better watch out, they'll eat you alive, and worry about that afterwards. just like dubya is prone to do
max, don't give me your standard bullshit and lies, just give me some facts. and let those here who travelled give you the idea.