{"id":1547,"date":"2003-08-01T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T23:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/01\/blood-on-his-hands\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:30:22","slug":"blood-on-his-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/01\/blood-on-his-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood on his hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13910,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thestar.com\\\/NASApp\\\/cs\\\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\\\/Layout\\\/Article_Type1&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1058654105916&amp;call_pageid=968332188492&amp;col=968793972154&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080602211622\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thestar.com:80\\\/NASApp\\\/cs\\\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\\\/Layout\\\/Article_Type1&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thestar.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:03:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:03:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13911,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/003628.html#003628&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20031013031136\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com:80\\\/archives\\\/003628.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 15:07:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:03:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:03:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13912,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\\\/eyv\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/daily_kos_on_to.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Wow &#8212; Tony Blair&#8217;s in trouble, and the British press are taking no prisoners.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Finally, one British reporter shouted out: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1058654105916&amp;call_pageid=968332188492&amp;col=968793972154\" title=\"Blair hit hard by suicide scandal\">Have you got blood on your hands, Prime Minister?<\/a> Are you going to resign over this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Blair froze. He stood uncomfortable and silent at the lectern for what must have seemed like the longest 30 seconds of his political career, until Koizumi called a merciful end to the press conference.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If only the American press corps had as much gall and backbone when questioning our leaders as the British press does when questioning theirs.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/003628.html#003628\" title=\"Blair running on borrowed time\">Daily Kos<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\/eyv\/2003\/08\/daily_kos_on_to.html\" title=\"Daily Kos on Tony Blair\">Lane<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you got blood on your hands, Prime Minister? Are you going to resign over this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}