{"id":69424,"date":"2007-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/11\/18\/la-passion-fric-du-croise-passionne-passionnement\/"},"modified":"2007-11-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T00:00:00","slug":"la-passion-fric-du-croise-passionne-passionnement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/11\/18\/la-passion-fric-du-croise-passionne-passionnement\/","title":{"rendered":"La passion-fric du crois\u00e9 passionn\u00e9, \u2013 passionn\u00e9ment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Il faut bien vivre, y compris les crois\u00e9s, les believers. Tony Blair est l&rsquo;homme qui nous dit avec passion \u00ab<em>I believed in it. I believed in it then, I believe in it now.<\/em>\u00bb ; l&rsquo;homme qui se raconte et se vit comme <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article.php?art_id=4635\" class=\"gen\">le crois\u00e9<\/a> d&rsquo;une bataille ultime de la civilisatioon (\u00ab<em>The enemy that we are fighting I am afraid has learnt . . . that our stomach for this fight is limited and I believe they think they can wait us out.<\/em>\u00bb). C&rsquo;est aussi le parfait organisateur de sa vie post-Downing Street, dont on dit qu&rsquo;il pourrait bien ramasser autant d&rsquo;argent que Bill Clinton a su en rassembler pour lui-m\u00eame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tL&rsquo;article de <em>The Independent<\/em> d&rsquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/article3172080.ece\" class=\"gen\">aujourd&rsquo;hui<\/a> renvoie comme on cligne de l&rsquo;il, complice, \u00e0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/the_blair_years\/article2886677.ece\" class=\"gen\">celui<\/a> du <em>Times<\/em> o\u00f9 Tony Blair nous ouvrait son \u00e2me. (La proximit\u00e9 des deux est-elle due au hasard? <em>Well<\/em>) Cette fois, il nous ouvre son compte en banque (non, ses comptes en banque, il est homme \u00e0 s&rsquo;organiser avec pr\u00e9voyance de ce c\u00f4t\u00e9). C&rsquo;est \u00ab<em>The Blair Rich Project<\/em>\u00bb, o\u00f9 il est intens\u00e9ment, avec fi\u00e8vre et passion, question de fric. La tr\u00e8s r\u00e9cente nouvelle d&rsquo;une conf\u00e9rence donn\u00e9e en Chine, d&rsquo;une platitude confondante, pay\u00e9e \u00a3237.000 pour 20 minutes, en porte un sobre t\u00e9moignage (\u00ab<em>lucrative returns Mr Blair is beginning to garner. The reported \u00a3237,000 for a 20-minute speech before an audience of faintly bored Chinese entrepreneurs in Guangdong province a week before was only the latest in a series of fruitful additions to the Blair bank balance.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tL&rsquo;organisation Blair &#038; Fric Corp. marche le tonnerre du Tr\u00e8s-Haut. Le pauvre crois\u00e9-PM vient d&rsquo;un salaire annuel de \u00a3186.429 (+ frais). D\u00e9sormais, on cause <em>Big Money<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>Experts predict that Mr Blair, with a family and several homes to support, could easily rake in \u00a33m by devoting barely 50 nights a year to dispensing his wisdom to wealthy audiences of business people around the world. This before he gets around to his long-awaited memoirs  for which he is being paid at least \u00a34.5m.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The controversial speech for Guangdong Guangda Group earlier this month was not the first example of Mr Blair dancing for dollars on the world stage; it was, in fact, the third engagement of a whistle-stop tour of China organised by his new handlers. It is barely two months since the outgoing leader signed up with the Washington Speakers Bureau (WSB), but he has already criss-crossed North America for a series of speaking engagements.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>He is not the first ex-prime minister to mine the rubber-chicken circuit. John Major constructed a lucrative second career, travelling the world delivering speeches to paymasters keen to hear his views on The Changing World, Global Terrorism and county cricket.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Mr Blair, however, comes with an even greater reputation, and he is aware of the need to capitalise on his marketability before he becomes an old story. While WSB can claim exclusive rights to a host of global figures, including former US secretaries of state Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright, and ex-chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, Tony Blair&rsquo;s is the first face to appear on the bureau&rsquo;s website.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Potential customers wondering about the price on his head are advised \u00a0\u00bbFee Code: Contact WSB, but industry insiders expect him to command at least \u00a375,000 a time.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLe crois\u00e9 est parfaitement am\u00e9ricanis\u00e9,  et ceci explique cela, dans un temps o\u00f9 le pro-am\u00e9ricanisme n&rsquo;existe plus vraiment. On est am\u00e9ricanis\u00e9, ou disons <em>International American Citizen<\/em>, ou bien l&rsquo;on est dans les t\u00e9n\u00e8bres ext\u00e9rieurs, <em>Non-American<\/em> (pour ne pas dire, horreur <em>Un-American<\/em> et, par cons\u00e9quent, anti-am\u00e9ricaniste,  <em>dito<\/em> pauvre mec au propre et au figur\u00e9). Le crois\u00e9-Blair l&rsquo;est tellement qu&rsquo;il est promis \u00e0 faire aussi bien qu&rsquo;un autre crois\u00e9 professionnel, le <em>must<\/em> du <em>must<\/em> de l&rsquo;exploitation-fric de soi-m\u00eame : \u00ab<em>Blair is the most attractive speaker to hit the circuit since Bill Clinton. His passage to China was littered with high-profile engagements, starting with the loss leaders of charity appearances in aid of the Clinton Global Initiative conference and a Catholic fundraiser, both in New York.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tFaut-il en faire des gorges sarcastiques dans le sens bien continental et cart\u00e9sien de la critique par d\u00e9rision? On peut y songer mais il est d&rsquo;un plus grand int\u00e9r\u00eat de comprendre. Devenu citoyen am\u00e9ricainiste international, Blair est compl\u00e8tement conforme. Pour lui, l&rsquo;argent n&rsquo;est pas un p\u00each\u00e9, et la prostitution de son image (comme l&rsquo;acteur Mel Gibson dit sarcastiquement de l&rsquo;exploitation de la notori\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 laquelle il sacrifie lui-m\u00eame avec une certaine amertume  mais Gibson est catholique pur et dur) n&rsquo;est l&rsquo;objet de cas de conscience et de remords que pour ceux qui appartiennent \u00e0 l&rsquo;ext\u00e9rieur du monde, par exemple ceux qui sont de culture latine. Ainsi parle-t-on de cet activisme-fric de Blair avec la d\u00e9licatesse qui sied, comme d&rsquo;une culture diff\u00e9rente (on dit cela aussi des m\u00e9thodes d&rsquo;interrogation de Guantanamo).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tIl s&rsquo;agit de l&rsquo;extr\u00e9mit\u00e9 de l&rsquo;individualisme am\u00e9ricaniste, l&rsquo;individu acquis \u00e0 toutes les valeurs de la chose, qui \u00e9tablit avec une minutie d&rsquo;horloger un \u00e9quilibre presque parfait entre un moralisme exacerb\u00e9 et intransigeant et une exploitation-fric de la notori\u00e9t\u00e9 sans le moindre frein. Pourquoi pas? Disent les esprits forts, pleins de leur r\u00e9alisme cart\u00e9sien (quoique cela aussi devienne \u00e9galement  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article.php?art_id=4594\" class=\"gen\">dangereux<\/a>, le r\u00e9alisme). Pourquoi pas? La r\u00e9ponse est simple: parce que, si vous avez quelques individus-individualistes s&rsquo;ab\u00eemant avec d\u00e9lice dans la vanit\u00e9 de leur notori\u00e9t\u00e9 et leur go\u00fbt du confort satisfaits, vous avez aussi le monde tel qu&rsquo;il est. A ce moment, il vous na\u00eet un sentiment de suspicion, un malaise un peu g\u00eanant pour tout dire, \u00e0 voir le crois\u00e9 entrer en transes et proclamer avec passion: \u00ab<em>I believed in it. I believed in it then, I believe in it now<\/em>\u00bb,  avec le million de morts irakiens en arri\u00e8re-plan ou en sautoir de son <LMI>curriculum-vitae<D>, et le \u00a3millions qui va avec ses trois ou quatre derniers discours dans sa besace.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 18 novembre 2007 \u00e0 07H31<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Il faut bien vivre, y compris les crois\u00e9s, les believers. Tony Blair est l&rsquo;homme qui nous dit avec passion \u00abI believed in it. I believed in it then, I believe in it now.\u00bb ; l&rsquo;homme qui se raconte et se vit comme le crois\u00e9 d&rsquo;une bataille ultime de la civilisatioon (\u00abThe enemy that we are&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3974,705,7225,6574],"class_list":["post-69424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-argent","tag-blair","tag-croise","tag-fric"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}