December 12, 2002
FROM CHEQUERS TO CHECKERS:
Poor Princess Cherie (Theodore Dalrymple, December 12, 2002, National Post)Cherie, Princess of Blair, sobbed her heart out on telly last night. (Where else should one sob one's heart out? What, after all, would be the point of doing so in private? That is what God gave us tears for: to shed in front of the cameras.) She confessed to the nation and the world -- truly, genuinely, sincerely -- that she was not perfect. Every sucker in the land was deeply moved.
I'd not been following this story, but heard about it on the BBC last night. Her performance sounded like an awful combination of the Hillary in a pink pansuit cattle futures press conference and Nixon's "Republican cloth coat" cringe-inducer. Posted by Orrin Judd at December 12, 2002 8:42 PM
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If you've ever read Nixon's memoirs, you'll remember how proud he was of the Checkers speech. So sad that Pat only had the cloth coat...it depressed me, ha ha.
Posted by: Steven Martinovich at December 13, 2002 10:14 AMIt got the job done. Nixon was nothing if not an instrumentalist.
I haven't followed the story much, either, and hadn't even heard of Cherie Blair until this started. But it appears she 'took silk,' no? The standards for that must have fallen. You used to have to be a clever lawyer to be a QC.
The highlight of the Checkers affair was certainly the supposedly craven Nixon snarling at the supposedly formidable Eisenhower that it was time to "[void] or get off the pot"
Posted by: oj at December 13, 2002 2:09 PM