No matter how much one might disagree with Tony Blair’s politics, one thing that is hard to refute is how well oiled his PR machine was. This is particularly evident in how well he was, and no doubt is, loved in America. It helped that, despite how much he aged over his ten years of rule, he was young and attractive when he came into office. His smile always seemed genuine also. I may perhaps be disagreed with here of course, but it is his smile I want to muse upon briefly.
Tony was often on popular youth television. He was once inteviewed by that precocious little scamp June Sarpong and having watched it I really felt he did a good job. I thought he was even quite funny. I sure as buggery didn’t feel like he was a charlatan, trying to look cool. OK. I really like Tony Blair. Maybe it’s because he plays guitar or he made the museums free but I admit it, I like him. Yes I’m up nights missing him as well. This is no more true than when I watched Gordon Brown’s appearence on American Idol. We can be as sceptical as we like. Is he only appearing on such a programme to tap into that American popularity that his predecessor was so successful in achieving? I doubt it, but it is quite possibly one reason for his doing so.
Watch for yourself and revel in the dreadfully forced smile that seems to come and go as if there is a PR man behind the camera sporadically pointing to their mouth to remind Gordo his smile has retreated into that habitual gurn of his.
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