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PLIANT MEDIA FOLLOWS BUSH LINE
George W. Bush, March 13, 2002: “I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important.”
Robert Fisk, January 14, 2006: “To look for bin Laden now is as useful as detaining nuclear scientists after the creation of the atomic bomb. Bin Laden has ceased to be important.”
It’s agreed, then. And people called Bush a divider! Robert’s ego remains in its usual healthy state:
Noting that Spain last year handed Syrian-born journalist Tayssir Alluni a seven-year jail term for collaboration with al-Qaeda - Alluni became famous for interviewing bin Laden shortly after the September 11 attacks on the United States - Fisk joked he hoped he would not suffer a similar fate.
“What will happen, I ask myself, when I arrive in Madrid to talk about my new book, I who have interviewed him three times?”
With luck, a 21-year term.
Imagine boasting about being so palatable to bin Laden you have been granted 3 interviews. A good and also decent journalist would only get one.
Isn’t it sad how he thinks he “interviewed” bin Laden rather than played out the useful idiot not once, not twice but three times!Posted by the nailgun on 2006 01 16 at 05:24 AM • permalinkRog2, imagine a Big Brother line up with Fisk, Galloway and possibly Greer.
The only thing less entertaining would be watching Big Brother with the usual soft-heads they put on the show here.
Posted by Major Anya on 2006 01 16 at 05:32 AM • permalinkO/T John Quiggin’s End of global warming debate now has 422 comments! The warmers are starting to get a bit ad hominem.
BTW, Antony L is currently on John Safran and Bob with Austen Tashyus (is that how you spell it?).
Posted by Major Anya on 2006 01 16 at 06:11 AM • permalinkAL looks like a member of The Chaser team. Arrggghhh, he’s cute.
Tayshus just said AL gave him the worst flak he ever received because AL stuck him on own every leftist website such as Pilger’s.
By the way, Tayshus (I know I am spelling that wrong) thinks Australia is an occupied country and that AL should concentrate on the plight of Aboriginals.
Posted by Major Anya on 2006 01 16 at 06:18 AM • permalinkI saw the Speaking in Tongues thing too. Austen Tashyus was all over a very timid Angry Ant. Every time Ant would try to make a point (usually tending towards an ill considered generalisation full of holes), AT was hammering him. Great stuff!
Posted by Mr Anderson on 2006 01 16 at 06:31 AM • permalinkI thought it was particularly amusing how A.T. kept saying Ant’s surname using the German pronounciation (even though it was in the slightly American war movie style).
Posted by Mr Anderson on 2006 01 16 at 06:34 AM • permalinkSee Robert Fisk using an imaginary telephone to talk to an imaginary friend and/or informant in order to bring us imaginary facts.
http://humbugonline.blogspot.com/2006/01/robert-fisk-selective-observer.html
Robert’s ego remains in its usual healthy state:
Oh, the green eyed monster raises its ugly head. Tim’s just jealous he hasn’t been able to interview Osama bin Laden. Or even Robert Fisk.
/Loewenstein off
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 01 16 at 07:37 AM • permalinkot but there is some more good news - there’s a useful michael leunig on the planet - he mends people’s hips in switzerland
isn’t that nice?
Major Anya - you are kidding, right? He looks and sounds exactly like I imagined he would, going on his blogging style.
Melanie - would you really want to waste your bandwidth on a couple of utter lightweights, circling each other and making about as much sense as a howler monkey on speed? Having said that, I shouldn’t slag off howler monkeys - junkie monkeys or otherwise - the average howler would provide more incisive analysis than those two clods.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 01 16 at 09:28 AM • permalink“What will happen, I ask myself, when I arrive in Madrid to talk about my new book, I who have interviewed him three times?”
Why, I imagine that you will attract the kind of numbers that showed up at Cindy Sheehan’s book-signing gig.
“I who have interviewed him three times” - and who, for all the insight gained, might as well have been conversing with a lamp post.
Y’all are missing the point.
What Pilger is telling us here is that Osama bin Laden is dead.
If bin Laden were alive, he’d be a useful taunt—“look! the Americans go clanking across the landscape in awful array, and Osama slips away like the breeze!” Since that taunt is no longer used, another explanation is required.
Dead, he might well be turned to an account that favors America—“look, ma, we got ‘im!” That has to be blunted, at least. Therefore Osama doesn’t matter, so killing him is not an achievement and Americans don’t get any credit for it.
Simple. You just aren’t cynical enough.
Regards,
RicToo right, Bongoman!
We are at war, and any “journalist” who provides, aid, comfort and encouragement to the enemy should be jailed.
However, I think it a bit extreme to jail journalists just because we disagree with them - this smacks of the oppression found in socialist/communist states.
Fisk should be tried fairly for his subversive and treacherous actions, found guilty, and sentenced to a lengthy period of imprisonment.
Also, bongoman should be sentenced to eight months of waxing the black helicopters for Persistent Wilful Stupidity and Lame Trolling.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2006 01 16 at 08:06 PM • permalink
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The Russians detained a whole lot of German nuclear scientists in order to create an atomic bomb.
Fisk has ceased to be important.