What else? Oh, another Brit (they class the joint up) gets into a cyber slap match with John

What else? Oh, another Brit (they class the joint up) gets into a cyber slap match with John “My Dad

Is Norman” Podhoretz. After Andrew Stuttaford called Tony Blair “disgusting,” Baby Pod’s smooth

dome turned a deep purple:

OH, I’M HERE, STUTTAFORD… [JPod]

…and I caught you calling Blair “disgusting” again, and I just want to say that for me and millions

of others, calling Blair disgusting is disgusting.

To which Stuttaford responded perfectly (emphasis mine):

[W]ho are these ‘millions’ of whom you speak? Probably not those millions of Brits who specifically

did not vote Labour because of Blair’s personality, and probably not those millions of British

Conservatives who as, Iain correctly notes, find Blair “despicable”. It’s probably fair to say that

a good number of those who write for the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph (two publications which are

normally quite well thought of around here) also consider Blair disgusting. Perhaps their views don’t

count. They only have to live under Blair after all. Why should they know anything about him?

What’s this? One country in the world where Americans don’t know best? Somebody report this

Stuttaford fellow to the Neocon Reeducation Unit, stat. (The Stuttaford-Podhoretz argument continues on

the Corner for those excited by the swagger of SPF-50 cowboys.)