Labour MP Jim Sheridan has criticized the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, because he had a chance, passing encounter, with Rupert Murdoch at a London Olympics venue.
He went on to wonder 'what would Milly Dowler's family think of this'?
I seem to recall that Surrey Police were very clear that there was no evidence that anyone at Murdoch's News International's now defunct News of the World newspaper, ever hacked the phone of the abducted and subsequently murdered schoolgirl.
So why fling the mud?
Apart from such being a familiar tactic regularly employed by the 'holier than thou' hypocrites from Labour, this is yet another attempt to obscure and distance themselves from News International and particularly the exceedingly close relations that they enjoyed with that organization. Indeed, much of the phone hacking that has been alleged to have taken place, occurred when those guardians of morality, AKA the Labour Party, were actually in power. Maybe it just didn't suit their ends to question the media organs that were so supportive?
Labour Party doesn't sling mud? Think Damian McBride, Think Dr David Kelly.
Heavens, when Brown was fuming on the sidelines, as Chancellor (and in the process ruining the UK economy) his cohorts - Charlie Whelan and the afore-mentioned McBride were vigorously leaking and plotting against Blair and his team. Blair and Co were no angels either - remember 'pyschologically flawed'?
Sometimes a chance meeting is just that. The reports indicate that this was so, so why, other than for cheap political points, make a fuss about it.
It says more about Sheridan's flawed judgement than Hunt's.
He went on to wonder 'what would Milly Dowler's family think of this'?
I seem to recall that Surrey Police were very clear that there was no evidence that anyone at Murdoch's News International's now defunct News of the World newspaper, ever hacked the phone of the abducted and subsequently murdered schoolgirl.
So why fling the mud?
Apart from such being a familiar tactic regularly employed by the 'holier than thou' hypocrites from Labour, this is yet another attempt to obscure and distance themselves from News International and particularly the exceedingly close relations that they enjoyed with that organization. Indeed, much of the phone hacking that has been alleged to have taken place, occurred when those guardians of morality, AKA the Labour Party, were actually in power. Maybe it just didn't suit their ends to question the media organs that were so supportive?
Labour Party doesn't sling mud? Think Damian McBride, Think Dr David Kelly.
Heavens, when Brown was fuming on the sidelines, as Chancellor (and in the process ruining the UK economy) his cohorts - Charlie Whelan and the afore-mentioned McBride were vigorously leaking and plotting against Blair and his team. Blair and Co were no angels either - remember 'pyschologically flawed'?
Sometimes a chance meeting is just that. The reports indicate that this was so, so why, other than for cheap political points, make a fuss about it.
It says more about Sheridan's flawed judgement than Hunt's.
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