Young Blair's obscene gesture

[Herman Munster]

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23387466-details/Young+Blair's+obscene+gesture/article.do

The mysterious affair of Tony Blair and the picture he would rather forget began to unravel today when it emerged that it was digitally enhanced to spare the Prime Minister's blushes.

The photograph of Mr Blair making a regrettable hand gesture was taken when he was a student at Oxford University in the mid-Seventies.

It has been reproduced in newspapers dozens of times since it first appeared - only without the gesture.

After the original version was unveiled on Newsnight last night, it was reported that the picture had never been seen in its full glory because it had always been cropped to avoid embarrassing Mr Blair.

[roguevalley]

1. what a bunch of prats. incredible.

[Buzz Clik]

13. No kidding! I've been surrounded by preppie kids for quite some time ...

These toads take it to a new level.

Blair's gesture should have been left in from the beginning -- it distracts from the hideous children.

[senseandsensibility]

2. I can see clearly now

why chimp and blair get along so well. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Cha]

10. Really! Two bozos unleashed

on the world to wreak their havoc globally.

[jimshoes]

3. The College Republican counterparts

I presume. College fops, toffs and coxcombs. Although had they put out a 45 rpm record back then I just might have bought it on their looks alone.

[WorldResident]

11. Yeah, and the Conservatives are the Democratic counterparts

:eyes:

Some people have no lives so they have to criticize others for having a life.

[jimshoes]

14. Hey, I said I would have bought their

record. You seem a bit touchy.

[Wickerman]

4. Shame this gets reported now

as he prepares to exit public life and not as he entered public life. Haliburton won't care if he has that kind of thing in his past. Hell, it's probably a must to have on the vita.

[cureautismnow]

5. He's still a wanker. n/t

[SoCalDem]

6. Nah..he was just sending Oprah a "subliminible" message :)

Just say O :)

[tritsofme]

7. Oh mercy me!

Does anyone really care about things like this?

[Bucky]

8. Note the difference between the Poodle and Dubya's youthful indiscretions

Mister Bush makes his youthful indiscretions when he's 50 years old.

[WorldResident]

12. I found that video kind of funny

I could care less what any politician does, so long as it's not illegal and it's not recent.

I hate Bush for his policies much more so than anything he may have done personally.

[Cabcere]

9. Out of respect for Terry Jones and Michael Palin

of Monty Python fame (both Oxford alumni), this Cambridge girl is going to resist the temptation to make gross (ha!) generalizations about the dark blue. ;)

[wicket]

15. kick

:kick:

[onenote]

16. "obscene"? You've got to be kidding

When did DU become prude central?

A bunch of college kids goofing for the camera in the 70s? Go find someone who was in college in that era and see if they have their yearbook and go through it. You'll find the same thing all over the place.