{"id":69508,"date":"2007-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/17\/qui-dit-que-les-special-relationships-ne-sont-pas-egalitaires-tony-fait-bien-autant-dargent-que-bill\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T00:00:00","slug":"qui-dit-que-les-special-relationships-ne-sont-pas-egalitaires-tony-fait-bien-autant-dargent-que-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/17\/qui-dit-que-les-special-relationships-ne-sont-pas-egalitaires-tony-fait-bien-autant-dargent-que-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Qui dit que les \u201cspecial relationships<\/em>\u201d ne sont pas \u00e9galitaires? Tony fait bien autant d’argent que Bill\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Il y a quelque chose de m\u00e9lodique, d’harmonieux, une sorte de r\u00e9compense de la vertu \u00e0 couper le souffle, comme s’il y avait une justice divine, dans le sort des dirigeants anglo-saxons qui savent y faire apr\u00e8s avoir chang\u00e9 le monde. Il y avait le cas de Bill Clinton. Celui de Tony Blair, pendant que l’affaire irakienne est enfin r\u00e9gl\u00e9e<\/a> pour les Britanniques, montre qu’il y a une r\u00e9elle \u00e9galit\u00e9 entre les cousins anglo-saxons, contrairement aux affirmations des jaloux et des atrabilaires (dont nous sommes, \u00e7a c’est s\u00fbr). Bien s\u00fbr, nous vous en avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 parl\u00e9<\/a>. Eh bien nous ne r\u00e9sistons pas \u00e0 la tentation de le faire encore.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tOn le sait maintenant, Tony fait de la big money<\/em>, juste r\u00e9compense de ces longues ann\u00e9es o\u00f9 il a particip\u00e9 \u00e0 la croisade qu’on sait, qui a boulevers\u00e9 le monde. L’organisation Blair est remarquable, parce que \u00e7a turbine bien. C’est d’autant plus remarquable qu’il est en m\u00eame temps missi dominici<\/em> de la communaut\u00e9 internationale pour r\u00e9soudre la question du Moyen-Orient, et non r\u00e9tribu\u00e9 bien entendu. Imagine-t-on plus belle situation h\u00e9ro\u00efque? Le Times<\/em> de Londres, poursuivant son uvre faussement venimeuse (le journal appartient \u00e0 Murdoch, copain de Tony), n’a donc pas rat\u00e9 l’h\u00e9ro\u00efque Tony Blair dans son \u00e9dition du dimanche (le 16 d\u00e9cembre<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abSources close to Blair, who left Downing Street last June, say he is delivering up to five speeches a month, with a typical fee of between \u00a3100,000 and \u00a3200,000.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBlair, who is also working unpaid as a Middle East peace envoy, is to embark on his most lucrative speaking tour in January, when he is likely to make as much as \u00a3500,000 in America and Canada for three speeches in four days.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbOn January 14 he will address 5,000 people at the Gibson Amphitheatre, a rock music venue in Universal City, near Los Angeles, for the American Jewish University. The most expensive ticket, at $2,500 (\u00a31,200), includes the chance to join the former prime minister and other speakers at a cocktail reception and dinner, and to have a picture taken with him.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbTickets are being sold for up to $1,000 to hear him speak the next day at the Californian millionaires’ resort of Indian Wells. Tim Parrott, executive director of the Desert Town Hall lecture series, said Blair currently had greater pulling power than Clinton, who earned \u00a315m for speeches in the four years after he left the White House.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThere is great interest in how he managed to get along so well with two presidents, one liberal, one conservative, Parrott said. His Middle East peace role will ensure he remains in demand for years to come.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbOn January 17 Blair will address 2,000 people at the Westin Harbour Castle, overlooking Lake Ontario, in Toronto. The event is sponsored by TD Bank Financial Group.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbOne sponsor said: Blair has been at the centre of the world’s most important geopolitical events for 10 years. People here want to know what he has to say about his role as a Middle East peace envoy.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNon, ne soup\u00e7onnez pas Tony Blair de carottage et de glandouillage. Ce serait du bien mauvais esprit. N’allez pas croire une seule seconde qu’il ne fait rien dans son r\u00f4le d’envoy\u00e9 sp\u00e9cial. Pas du tout, il travaille comme un fou, tous frais pay\u00e9s \u00e9videmment, y compris la suite-\u00e9tage complet \u00e0 l’h\u00f4tel American Colony<\/em> (\u00a31 million par an pour la location), pr\u00e8s de J\u00e9rusalem. (\u00abOne hotel staff member said: One day recently he had meetings with four Israeli ministers in the morning. They came in one after the other boom, boom, boom, boom. Then he had dinner with Condoleezza Rice [the US secretary of state] in the evening.<\/em>\u00bb) Cherie le voit une fois, deux fois par mois, le rate quand elle se d\u00e9place \u00e0 l’American Colony<\/em> o\u00f9 elle d\u00eene tristement, en solitaire. Lui, il ne rate pas les autres. D\u00e9tails:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abSir Winston Churchill, Graham Greene and Lawrence of Arabia used to be regulars at the Colony, where Blair and his entourage have taken over the fourth floor, with security provided by discreet Scotland Yard protection officers rather than Uzi-toting Israeli-style security.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbA display in the lobby lists recent guests as the actors Uma Thurman, Richard Gere and Robert De Niro; Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general; the fashion designer Giorgio Armani; and the musician Sting. Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, who liberated Palestine and Syria from Ottoman rule during the first world war, was a frequent visitor to the hotel and said: If you want dialogue, this is where it happens.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAinsi le personnage de Blair se complique-t-il. Car, \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re de cette remarque cit\u00e9e ci-dessus de Tim Parrott, directeur d’une de ces entreprises de l’industrie de la conf\u00e9rence<\/a> (\u00abHis Middle East peace role will ensure he remains in demand for years to come<\/em>\u00bb), on doit s’interroger. Blair est-il en train de r\u00e9tablir la paix et la concorde au Moyen-Orient pour tenir haut la main ses tarifs de conf\u00e9rencier ou bien est-il en train de faire ses conf\u00e9rences avec ses tarifs haut la main pour pouvoir continuer \u00e0 disposer d’une suite \u00e0 l’American Colony<\/em> et y rencontrer Uma Thurman, Robert de Niro, Condoleeza Rice, Kofi Annan, boom, boom, boom, boom<\/em>? Grave question.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAh oui, ses m\u00e9moires (\u00a34,6 millions d’avance sur droits d’auteur de Random House) sont retard\u00e9s de deux ans. Si, d’ici l\u00e0, il ne joue pas avec Uma Thurman, dans le projet d’Hollywood encore \u00e0 mettre au point, The Liberation of the American Colony<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 17 d\u00e9cembre 2007 \u00e0 06H04<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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