August 08
2004
Cheerio Ms O
» Posted on August 8, 2004 01:54 PM » Category: Meejah

I rarely think after reading the witterings in a Christina Odone column, but there's a first for everything. According to Ms Odone:

It is because Americans set little store by their diplomats that they appointed the mediocre Paul Bremer as US administrator in Iraq...Bremer's third-rate abilities became clearer when compared to our man, Jeremy Greenstock; they also incensed American civil servants in Iraq, sticklers for protocol. They thought it inconceivable that Greenstock should be forced to collaborate with a hopeless Bremer, and devised a plan whereby they would informally appoint someone to stand in for Bremer at all the meetings with Greenstock - lest the Brit need to speak to a man so clearly his inferior.


It's an interesting idea. As a reader of The Observer, I would like to be similarly protected. Might I suggest that Roger Alton, editor of The Observer, immediately replaces the 'third rate', 'hopeless' and 'clearly inferior' Ms Odone.


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Isn't that an ingenious way of dealing with time wasters,-" Noo of course the manager isn't too busy to see you, but you are so obviously superior to him that you would be better meeting his janitor'.

Stated by: Ross on August 9, 2004 12:01 AM

Christine Odone has even less grasp on reality than her sister under the lefty skin, Polly Toynbee. Her articles are a blanket of grey drizzle, unilluminated by wit. Or even any point. She drones with tiny, predictable thoughts. She used to be John Humphreys' main squeeze. I think that about covers Christine Odone.

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