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The mainstream media - united in idiocy

The Independent:
At his debut "Colgate" summit here with Mr Bush, Tony Blair cavorted in a shirt and sweater, and a pair of "ball-crushingly tight, dark-blue corduroys", in the words of the Great British ambassador of the day.... Not so Gordon, in the same dark suit he might have worn as Chancellor at a Guildhall banquet.

Daily Telegraph:
Mr Blair and Mr Bush were fond of appearing together in casual attire, including, according to Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British ambassador to Washington, Mr Blair's "ball-crushingly tight dark-blue corduroys''.
Downing Street aides said Mr Brown will not take any sartorial risks. "He may remove his tie,'' ventured one official.

Sunday Telegraph:
The new Prime Minister has asked for a more "focused'' and "business-like'' atmosphere. You can be sure there will be no "ball-crushingly tight dark-blue corduroys'' so memorably described by Christopher Meyer.

Sunday Times:
When Gordon Brown meets George Bush at Camp David today, we can be sure that he will not emulate his predecessor in wearing what the then British ambassador described as "ball-crushingly tight" trousers.

The Times:
Mr Blair, after some intense consultation with his style advisers, wore a pair of blue corduroys, later described by the man who was British ambassador at the time as "ball-crushingly tight".

The Mirror:
One addressed "Gordon", the other "Mr President", the nauseating Tony & George act that served Britain so badly went out of the window. This was ballsy politics in a business suit, Brown wisely avoiding the embarrassing ball-crushingly tight corduroys favoured by Tony Blair.

Financial Times:
But Mr Brown has ensured there are obvious contrasts with his predecessor on this, the first substantive overseas trip of his premiership. Gone is Mr Blair's casual Camp David attire - the "ball-crushingly tight" trousers described by Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British ambassador to the US.

The Guardian:
Brown wanted his Washington debut to look nothing like the Bush-Blair love-ins of the past, and he succeeded. Out went the groin-squeezingly tight jeans, in came the suits.

And there's even more ...

Sending the right signals

Leader
Monday July 30, 2007
The Guardian

A very different British prime minister arrived at Camp David for his first summit with George Bush last night. Unlike Tony Blair, Mr Brown will not swagger around in tight jeans...

And still more ...

And of course Rawnsley in the Observer:

At his first Camp David meeting with George Bush, more than six long years ago, Tony Blair was told that his host wanted to be informal. Eager to please, he wore a pair of bollock-crushingly tight jeans and seemed to try to ape Bush by adopting a sort of cowboy gait.

'Gordon does not do jeans,' as one of his friends puts it. Nor does he do cowboy. Gordon Brown only has two outfits in his prime ministerial wardrobe. One is a suit. The other is a suit without a tie. The latter is as informal as he gets. Relaxed but businesslike is the impression that Mr Brown would like to be projected from Camp David.

And more after that ...

Feeling weird yet?

Daily Telegraph:
The personal tailoring ensured the cut was on the generous side with no room for the "too tight to mention'' appearance of Mr Blair's trousers when he went for a walk with President Bush and his dog Spot at Camp David in February 2001.

Photographs on that occasion show Mr Blair vainly attempting to wedge his hands into the pockets of his tight-squeeze trousers but being unable to insert them for fear of cutting off the circulation.

Daily Telegraph:
They wore suits and ties, rather than "ball-crunchingly tight'' slacks. They shared experiences of Scottish Presbyterian church services, instead of Colgate toothpaste.
Of course Gordon Brown and George Bush bonded at Camp David - it was their job to do so - but there was clearly a greater degree of formality in their relationship than there was between the American President and Tony Blair.

The Guardian:
He eschewed the New Labour-issue tight jumper and even tighter jeans, as sported by Tony Blair at his first Camp David summit in 2001.

And finally (or not, as the case may be) ...

And Nick Robinson:

'There'll be no Colgate moment, no movie with the wives, no chinos that are - in the words of the British Ambassador at the time - "ball crushingly tight". This first Camp David summit between Prime Minister and President will not, must not, be the same as the last first summit.'

Quite.

And here - courtesy of the Media Lens editors - is the punch-line (my link):

By the way, there were more press mentions of the tight trousers than of the latest Oxfam report of the cataclysm in Iraq.

For more on this spectacular performance, have a look at Media Lens's latest Media Alert.