Irony - so delicious I whimpered and whinnied with ecstasy!

Sorry, Richard Littlejohn, to steal your catchphrase - again - but 'you really couldn't make it up', well, you could if your name is Tony Blair - and he did - er, make it up, that is. Oh dear, why do I always have such convoluted beginnings to my posts?  Let me explain.

The NYT reports that in Tony Blair's memoirs there is a passage in which he directly quotes a conversation between him and the Queen.  Apparently this caused a certain  froideur in palace circles who do not take kindly to Her Maj's private conversations being quoted verbatim.  However, now it emerges that the exchanges quoted by Tony 'Hey, I'm a pretty straight sort of guy' Blair were actually lifted from the script of the film "The Queen" made in 2006 with (and here's another mouth-dribbling irony) Helen Mirren playing Her Maj.

Thanks to Drudge for the pointer.

 

Comments

[JK]

Well David, again not a properly appropriate post except for the fact that politicians are mentioned. Anyway, over the past few months you've been mentioning Glenn Beck and how often you tune in. I've worried you might "drop off the edge" from overexposure but until just now, I wasn't in possession of any real evidence that would support my fears. Until that is, I was reading about Ohio's John 'Boner' Boehner when someone sent me a link featuring another would-be Ohio politician. See if this guy reminds you of Mr Beck.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-olson/phil-davison-gop-speech_b_710642.html

[David Duff]

Couldn't watch the whole thing, too cringe-worthy, but I got the flavour of it in the first few minutes and no, 'JK', nothing in it reminded me of Beck whose views one might disagree with and whose style sometimes verges on the histrionic but whose investigations into the antecedents of the dangerous progressives in the Obama polit bureau are extremely well researched. In my opinion, America owes Beck and if anyone deserves a Congressional Medal of Honour, it's him.

[dearieme]

Mirren, not Mirran. As in St Mirren, obviously.

[David Duff]

Thanks, 'DM', I have corrected it, hopefully before her agent gets on my case!