Did he, or didn't he?
I am mystified:On September 7th, 2006, Oliver Kamm talked of "Brown's Coup". One cannot fault his calm and rational language:
"The Chancellor has mounted a coup against a serving Prime Minister, and a successful coup at that."
Nine months later, on June 27th 2007, Oliver spoke of Blair, presumably bouncing back from that 'successful coup', such that it was neither 'successful' or a 'coup'
"leave[ing] office today after a decade as prime minister and at a time of his choosing."
Two quotes not in the most perfect of harmony. Unless, the successful coup happened exactly the same time as Blair decided to resign. Unfortunately, today , there's more:
To my regret, Tony Blair has left office earlier than he would have done otherwise and with a tarnished public image.
This will take a bit of arguing, but really it's quite simple. Tony Blair was forced out in a coup, but that fortuitously happened exactly at the time of his choosing, however rather less fortunately that time of his choosing was earlier than his time of choosing really would have been, if he had been free to choose, nevertheless one shouldn't believe it wasn't his choice.
Got that?
Labels: Illogical statements
posted by Matthew @ 9/04/2007 10:43:00 PM
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