The naked emperor

…Behind the multiple, hypocritical layers of spin served to the frantic 24/7 news cycle, politics is mostly a tacky reality show. And that’s what the latest WikiLeaks show graphically lays bare. Although it would all make for great , it’s hardly a scoop that for US diplomats Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is “Hitler”, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is “paranoid”, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is an “emperor with no clothes”, “vain and feckless” Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is fond of “wild parties”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is “rarely creative”, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev “plays Robin to [Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin’s Batman” or North Korea’s Dear Leader Kim Jong-il is a “flabby old chap” suffering from “physical and psychological trauma”. But to believe, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton does, that these disclosures constitute “an attack not only on American foreign policy interests but on the international community”; or that WikiLeaks, as President Barack Obama has put it, committed a serious crime, is to display nothing but tacky imperial arrogance. As if the world didn’t have the right to gorge itself on the kind of political junk food served to a few consumers ins…

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