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Last updated on August 4th, 2017 at 07:48 am
Robert Fisk offers his opinion.
- Out of the fire and into the frying pan?Posted by surfmaster on 2007 07 19 at 09:24 AM • permalink
- Its obviously his brain pan sizzling I think?
Poor old weird sodPosted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 19 at 09:25 AM • permalink
- Has anyone seen the frying pan yet? Did it look like this? Or this?Posted by Fast Eddie on 2007 07 19 at 09:28 AM • permalink
- If those are the highlights of the interview, then the entire show is gonna be one continuous belly laugh.
How can I eat my popcorn under those conditions?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 19 at 09:39 AM • permalink
- Hey Fisk. Will you read or hear?
GENERAL PETRAEUS ON HOW THE SURGE IS GOING. The full transcript is here. Every member of Congress should have to read this.
AND
Read the whole thing for a broad assessment of conditions in Iraq, one that completely contradicts assertions that the surge has failed. The audio will also be posted and can be listened to by hitting the “Talk Radio Clips” button above.
Better yet Fisk. Will you be able to comprehend what the words say and listen and understand to what is being said?
- Australia’s best journalist? Not while Margo is alive.Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 07 19 at 10:26 AM • permalink
- I’m cooking tonight…
Keralan Fisk Curry with Lemon Rice*
Cut the Fisk into bite sized chunks, put them into a large bowl and rub with a little salt and 1 teaspoon turmeric. Heat the oil in a large, shallow pan and peel and tip your fine half-moons of
Islamonions; sprinkle them with a little salt to stop them browning and then cook, stirring, until they’ve softened; this should take scarcely 5 minutes.Serves 4.
*apologies to Nigella Lawson.
- That was actually Fisk’s famous duck call, in which he takes inordinate pride. And since his competence in that skill is on a par with his competence as a reporter, I imagine that, a few moments later, the room was filled with barn owls.
That is the first time I’ve ever seen a video of Fisk. He certainly is a hyper-fidgety fellow; he gave the impression of being a man who desperately needed to go to the bathroom, but whose vanity prevented him from letting the interviewer know that he is subject to the same bodily functions as other mortals.
- Why, why, why does anyone still print Robert Fisk’s dreck? When your last name is practically a synonym for tendentiousness, that might be a sign that you need to hang ‘em up.Posted by WingDynasty on 2007 07 19 at 11:26 AM • permalink
- Democrats: As serious as ever about combating terrorism.
- #23: Yes, that’s the right word to describe him, Spines: “spastic”. Maybe it’s combat fatigue or shell shock or something. I just have a hard time figuring out how this ignorant, lava-faced jumping bean has managed to roam around war zones without getting zapped. He strikes me so much as being like a clergyman who has wandered into a mining-camp brothel by mistake and asked in a loud voice for a glass of lemonade.
- 26 paco, ‘they’ support our troops too…
“While Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, said Democrats were not staging the debate as a political stunt, members of his staff delivered care packages to their Republican counterparts. “A few supplies for your sleepless night — help us bring an end to this war,” read the note attached to a bundle of toiletries, tied with a yellow ribbon.”He sent care packages to Republican Senators mocking our real support for our troops. We need to muster all the support we can from as many citizens as we can to provide letters and care packages for the morale of these marines That is why I am sending you this message. I hope that you will help us spread the word that we are in urgent need of some upstanding citizens to assist Soldiers’ Angels in providing this support.
But, I would also like to start a campaign to get all of the Republican Senators to send Sen. Reid’s generous gifts to the people that really need it: 1200 Marines. Please ask your readers to contact their Senators and ask them to send these care packages to:
Fighting 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit
c/o Soldiers’ Angels
914 Tourmaline Drive
Newbury Park, CA 91320Please note: The “Send Harry’s Care Packages to the Marines” campaign is not an official position of Soldiers’ Angels as it is a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose sole mission is to support our troops. This campaign is my personal mission. If Sen. Reid can’t support our troops any other way, we can at least make good use of his political theater in providing material support to some people who need it.
Thank you,
Kathleen Henry
- #30: Thanks for that warning, El Cid. Good to know.
There also appears to be this continuing consumer threat – language alert! (via TigerHawk).
- On the subject of Reid and company, a typically amusing piece by R. Emmett Tyrrell.
- 37: “Because it will be when we’re finished with it.”
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 07 19 at 12:40 PM • permalink
- Isn’t Fisk overdue for a good ass-kicking at the hands of some oppressed RoP’ers?Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 07 19 at 01:17 PM • permalink
- Thanks to sound investment forecasts from our financial advisors at Pieko Australia Consolidated, many investors dumped their shares in Paco Global INC at the height of the US opinion poll swing against conservatives last week.
Good riddance, I say.
What’s making news this week is fishing in southern waters. And keep this under your hat, but it’s not too soon to pass the word that geo-seismic research combined with fast-tracked deep ocean floor exploration has virtually guaranteed forecasted returns on the Patagonian Antarctic Creel Offer.
- While we’re on the subject, Splice, see if you can find a home for these little fellows.
- #43: Fry ‘em in butter with a big dollop of Vegemite and the whole of the VRWC will cheer. On the other hand, Ash_ will never speak to me again…
This is a promotion question, I can tell.
If I choose correctly, do I get wronwright’s office?
He has to dust the bookshelves down and move all of his buckets and mops and secret spacetime maps out of there, whatever happens.
- #54: Invited? I just happen to have a pair of mid-heel pumps in a soft shade of crimson on the passenger’s side floor of the car just in case you had to throw off your pearl and diamond accented heels on the way over.
Here’s the update. From what I can gather, there’s an RWDB operative stuck in a broom closet. But what’s strange is that nobody seems interested in getting him out of there right now. They say he comes and goes, without opening the door.
And get this… they say that the broom closet is larger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Americans!
- Then there is this ass hat….who has to be in the running for a Fiskie Award. To bad he’ll die before he physically touches his “Fiskie”. Well, not THE “Fiskie” that is.
Don’t drop the soap, stupid bastard.
Feds: Worker Stole Classified Information From Top Nuclear Lab
A contract worker was arrested Thursday for attempting to sell nuclear secrets from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, federal law enforcement officials told FOX News.
Roy Lynn Oakley, 67, is expected to appear at a federal court in Knoxville, Tenn., at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Lemme see now…almost 1 hour 15 minutes since his appearance. Gosh, wonder what he’s thinking, now?
- #58, Cidster
Oh sure. Mentioned in Presidential debates. Just another clever textshop job. What’s next? We actually put a man on the moon? Think not.
#59
Just shoot the clown along with the Chinese agent he tried to sell them to.
Thanks for pointing me to Theo Spark. I like that picture of the B-52 with the caption that goes something like; “The terrorists have won the toss and elected to receive.”
- Totally OT – here’s another entry for the “Raising Children To Be Insufferable Wimps” files:
Helping the kiddies cope if Harry Potter corks it
Don’t tell ‘em he dies from climate change – it’ll send them all straight into the arms of the therapists.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 07 19 at 04:55 PM • permalink
- Re #63, personally, Sil, I’d personally cap Harry if it stopped all this silly hooraw and hype. Alas, it won’t stop, and thus wouod be a waste of ammo. 🙁Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 19 at 05:42 PM • permalink
- Jeez, mid-afternoon, and I’m typing like Fisk talks. Oi vey! Maybe one of those Dumberdork students cast a hex on me.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 19 at 05:44 PM • permalink
- Tough luck, Valerie! Looks like you and Joe “Size Nine Ass Hat” Wilson are going to have to get real jobs, after all.
I’ll be so glad when these lying, gold-digging frauds vanish from the scene.
- Interesting link el cid.
Many of the women seem to be simply lesbians with no hetero background, but whatever.
- Fisk is a major dickhead. Why hasn’t he lost his job yet?Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 07 19 at 06:46 PM • permalink
- It’s easy to be scornful of Fisk, but I think he may yet serve a useful purpose.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 19 at 07:06 PM • permalink
- #70: I heard she put her resume in at Paco Industries but was laughed out of the building.
Very close, Ash. During the interview, the Personnel Director pushed the auto-rejection button under his desk, and Plame disappeared through a trap door – chair and all – and was ejected into the parking lot. We did all laugh, though; the expression on people’s faces as the trap door opens is priceless.
- El Cid, peter m –
feverishcasual study of that list brought me to Marina Baker. Surely not the same Marina Baker I um, er, admired in Playboy all those years ago?
Sure was. Nowadays she’s a witch and a Liberal Democrat – convincing proof, IMO, that some people should just stay naked.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 19 at 08:01 PM • permalink
- I watched that clip three times and still couldn’t think of anything funny to say. Chaplin said something like he would never have made The Great Dictator had he known his main character enough to know he was beyond humour. Out of reach of parody and ridicule.
There is a line and Fisk is on the other side of it. Like Galloway and many others. I think it was Paco who observed this is a war with a number of fronts. There have always been people like Fisk and Galloway. In less complicated times they were simply shot at dawn or hanged.
- #81 Good catch, paco
However, the newspaper article makes no mention of a fish farm, just that it had “come from one of the world’s few well-managed, sustainable populations of toothfish, and caught and documented in compliance with Marine Stewardship Council regulations.”
Mmmh, might be worth some investigatin’.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 19 at 08:14 PM • permalink
- I think Mr. Fisk needs to switch to decaf.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 19 at 08:15 PM • permalink
- Chilean Sea Bass FAQ
Includes the following factoids:
“One small population of Chilean Sea Bass has been certified as well-managed by the Marine Stewardship Council, whose standards have been repeatedly challenged by the environmental community.”
“There is no such thing as farmed Chilean Sea Bass.”
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 19 at 08:21 PM • permalink
- Another meeting of the Marine Stewardship Council.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 19 at 08:29 PM • permalink
- Paco Finance: “Churning. It’s not just for butter.”Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 19 at 08:34 PM • permalink
- What environmental groups think of certified Sea Bass herePosted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 19 at 08:37 PM • permalink
- #90: Erm, yeah, we considered that one, but it went in the tank with these:
Widows and orphans welcome!
Who you gonna believe, us or the Securities and Exchange Commission?
You can’t take it with you!
Your check’s in the mail.
Incidentally, that’s the last time we hire a tax attorney in our advertising department.
- Code pink scumbags will end up with a free pass on thias story I suppose (as usual)Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 19 at 11:02 PM • permalink
- Try Cooking This At Home, Fisky
The ABC has been giving some exposure this week to a book by Zarah Ghahramani & Robert Hillman – My Life As A Traitor.
Zarah was a moderate student, not a firebrand, but may have associated with some who agitated a little. It took very little indeed for the authorities to pick her up and “detain” her without trial for a month, beat her and break her down mentally.
She was released and took years to recover her confidence. She left Iran by means of some bribery and subterfuge, and came to Australia to live. She is now happily married to another expatriate Iranian, and while loving Australia, would like to return to Iran eventually, her real home despite everything.
For those who hope for peaceful regime change in Iran, she is no great encouragement. If she is representative of the vast younger Iranian generation, they are a passive lot. She certainly does not want to see the US do regime change by force. A little dilution of the mad mullocracy’s power would suffice for her to return.
Iran remains under the control of aggressive, apocalyptic fanatics. The so-called moderate leadership failed. The students are cowed into submission. Iranian interference and destructive power gaming in the Arab Middle-East will continue. The blind and toothless IAEA watchdog has no effect on their nuclear weapons programs.
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