Posted on 11/29/2010 12:12:25 PM PST by maggief
Duke railed against France, British anti-corruption investigations into BAE and American ignorance, leaked dispatches reveal
Prince Andrew launched a scathing attack on British anti-corruption investigators, journalists and the French during an "astonishingly candid" performance at an official engagement that shocked a US diplomat.
Tatiana Gfoeller, Washington's ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, recorded in a secret cable that Andrew spoke "cockily" at the brunch with British and Canadian business people, leading a discussion that "verged on the rude".
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
This Guardian writer sounds on the verge of tears.
The Royal family always does that to keep colonials in their place.
That’s the down side of the modern privileged nobility.Nobless Oblige is truly dead.
She'd probably be one of the last to know if he was actually being rude.
Guess this was the “hot news.”
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/nov/29/wikileaks-us-embassy-cables-live-updates
5.16pm GMT: If we had one of those red siren things that the Drudge Report has, it would be flashing here: stand by for incoming hot news. Seriously.
The Guardian author needs to grow a thicker skin for THAT business.
Its obvious their liberal nancies are every bit as sensitive as our liberal nancies.
State Department professional from Georgetown.
Tatiana Gfoeller:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/111192.htm
Where is the “news” in this story? Corruption in a former Soviet republic? A not very bright Royal? A catty US diplomat? What’s new about that?
How stupid?!! This author sounds like she’s shocked that corruption exists...REALLY????
What a sheltered world she lives in!!
Why are our diplomats wasting time talking with the dim-wit royals?
Who are you referring to when you mention author?
>Tatiana Gfoeller, Washington’s ambassador to Kyrgyzstan
Gawd, that’s it, this dipsy diplo thought he was rude!
Seems like our diplo crops has been overrun by a bunch of PC types.
Sounds like the Prince is a standup guy with balls.
Bully for him.
For the same reason that the Royal Wedding and all its nitty details will be plastered across every grocery store tabloid in America.........................
The person who’s quoted in the article
Did you read the actual cable? Here it is.
The kid has balls. I think I like him.
She is a her not a him.
When you invite the American ambassador to a luncheon, you don't say something like this:
"For example, one British businessman noted that despite the "overwhelming might of the American economy compared to ours" the amount of American and British investment in Kyrgyzstan was similar. Snapped the Duke: "No surprise there. The Americans don't understand geography. Never have. In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!"
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