Blair and Bush

Okay, this is interesting. Everyone wondered what Blair was doing by staying so close to Bush. The British press was calling him a poodle for it. Now some details, which may or may not be related, are trickling out.

The Blair government knew in advance that the Sun newspaper was to launch a week-long campaign on the "immigration crisis" last summer, and immediately moved to neutralise the issue in collaboration with the tabloid, it was claimed yesterday.

Murdoch owns the Sun in the UK, and Fox News here in there States. Murdoch is a shill for the Bush administration. Blair stays close to Bush to gain some media protection from Murdoch. It doesn't make much sense though. There are lots of papers in the UK. Why would protection from the Sun matter? That must not be it...