Monday, October 05, 2009

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The Daily Mail, in a piece attacking Tony and Cherie Blair, who just might become President and First Lady of Europe says, under two Photoshopped pictures of the Blairs in appropriate costume,

With Tony Blair's bid for presidency he has been likened to Napoleon, with Cherie as his Antoinette

Er - doesn't the Mail have a single staffer with so much as a Grade C GCSE in History? Napoleon was a revolutionary who made himself Emperor. Marie Antoinette was not his wife, but an aristocrat who married Louis Seize and was guillotined for it in 1793.

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