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Thread #42269   Message #614135
Posted By: catspaw49
21-Dec-01 - 08:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: POLL: Most Overdone News Story of 2001?
Subject: RE: BS: POLL: Most Overdone News Story of 2001?
I'll tell you one that seemed to me to have gotten beat to death here that spans the Atlantic. Tony Blair goes all out to support the US.

Well duh.

I mean he gave a well received speech and all but for the love of gawd, that whole story ran for weeks after 911. Were we supposed to be surprised somehow? These two countries have been tightly linked in wartime for the entire century and in recent times the support of the UK has been immediate and unqualified. So why not run the story and spend a few days saying thanks and all and drop it? A month or more afterwards, Blair was still at the top of the news, or at least on page 2! If China had jumped in with the same thing, now THAT would have remained news.

Outside of that, I agree with Chandra and the sharks......Sounds like a musical number from West Side Story........Maybe Chandra went swimming........

Spaw