The Laughing Wolf

Tony Blair, Speaker Extraordinaire

I spent most of Thursday out of the house, and failed to set the VCR to get the speech. I very much regret that right now, and plan to beg a friend to get me the video. The speech can be found here in text, but the delivery I have seen has been just as captivating as the words. This was oratory as the art form it should be.

Not that many have seen it. It seems to have gotten little play in Old Media. Hey, if Rumsfeld can refer to the Axis of Weasel as Old Europe, I can refer to CBS, NBC, and ABC as the former three or Old Media. The BBC also falls into this, but one expects so little from them today, just as one expects little or nothing from CNN.

Thank goodness for the blogs. It is from the blogs that I got the transcripts, the commentary, and more. Hail the new journalism. Hail a speech that truly qualifies as good news, as well as good. Go find it, read, and listen if you can.

LW