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Tony Blair in Jeremy Paxman interview
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well Paxman certainly got the better of Michael Howard - 12 times he asked him whether hed threatened to overrule Derek Lewis in that Newsnight program.
I think Blair pretty much lost out to Humphreys though :
http://takeoneonion.org/archives/2004/09/tony_blair_on_the_today_p.html
It wasn't an interview as much as sheer comedy by refusing to answer the question so many times Howard made it abundantly clear what the answer was.
I'm still glad we have the likes of Paxman and Humphreys - the alternative is Michael Howard on Breakfast with Frost or Tony Blair on Richard and Judy!
The reason Tony Blair is hard to pin down is due to his physical presence. I cannot stand him, he makes my skin crawl. What I cannot deny is that he is incredibly charismatic. Very few people have true charisma. I think in my lifetime I have met only two. True charisma is the ability to command the undivided attention of your audience, not just once, but again and again. People who are charismatic include Muhammad Ali, Nelson Mandela, and Steve McQueen. Adolf Hitler was awesomely charismatic, that he ordered the deaths of millions of people does not change that. Blair's longetivity as a leader lies in a supreme and unswerving belief in his own abilities, coupled with the fact that those around him do not possess such a quality. In a nutshell, that is really the only reason he has lasted so long as PM.
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