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Yet another attempt at unpacking Robert Fisk, this time from Gerard Henderson:
Some Englishmen still go out in the midday sun. Others just do lunch. It seems that the English-born journalist and author Robert Fisk had elected to take the second option when he was interviewed live from Beirut on ABC TV’s Lateline last Wednesday. At the conclusion of the program, presenter Tony Jones described the interview as “rather unusual”. You can say that again.
In other crazy-people news: the anti-war left continues to brawl over Iraq death counts. It’s civil war at Lambertland!
- Fisk’s book is 1300 pages long? 1300 pages? As in, one thousand three hundred? Is it because he repeats everything at least three times? Can you even begin to imagine 1300 pages of the demented drivel that is Robert Fisk? Has anyone ever actually read it from cover to cover? Did they still have command of their higher brain functions when they were done? I just can’t get my mind wrapped around this.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 05 02 at 02:18 AM • permalink
- #4 Your point being…?Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 05 02 at 03:24 AM • permalink
Fisk’s book is 1300 pages long?
Christ, he must think he’s Robert Jordan.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 05 02 at 07:27 AM • permalink
- Hmmmm, isn’t that Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun per Noel Coward?…LOL.
I’m sure I’m not alone in this thought. I really don’t care what others think of the U.S.
I think (bad to do) that when comparing a society of ISMS (as in CommunISM, NazISM, TotalitarianISM of any kind, including the CULT of IslamISM…One will find that AmericanISM and/or ‘Western’ISM have been by far the kindest of all ‘ISMS’.
Yes AmericanISM and/or ‘Western’ISM, have had their warts, but most of, if not all, of those warts have been removed.
One, or at least not THIS ‘one’, have seen a great migration of immigrant citizens to say…North Korea, China, Russia, India, Germany, Japan, et al even if ‘they’ promoted ‘they’ want you to come and certainly not to lovelies such as….Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Egypt…et al.
You will find however all of the above, having citizens emigrate TO America and Western Nations AND if allowed, scads more would do the same. Hell Yale (U.S.) even has its OWN Taliban Man.
I have no idea why Robert Fisk is getting the attention he gets, OTHER then the fact of him being an anti-AmericanISM and anti-’Western’ISM, and an anti-Israel IDIOT, EXCEPT HE adores the money he makes off of being ANTI.
- More Fisk…Jesus H.
If the Jew fitz
Snippet….
With the exception of interviews with a few left-wing journalists writing for congenial publications, John Mearsheimer and Stehen Walt have steadfastly refused to discuss their “Israel Lobby” paper. On Friday Robert Fisk devoted a column in the Independent to his interview with Stephen Walt; Fisk’s column ran under the cover depicting the unlovely flag above, sure to warm the heart of “Israel Lobby” fan David Duke and others of his ilk on the left and the right.
Unreal, I’m critical of the Fisk-phenomena and yet promote it, so to speak, in the next breath.
- I don’t know who wrote this, but it has a Robert Fisk byeline. It’s nearly as crazy as the Nightline interview.
http://tinyurl.com/pjzue
- Well I do have a copy of Fisks’ doorstopper that was given to me a present “to try and broaden your outlook”
After struggling through about 400 pages of absolute pigswill,and badly written pigswill at that,I gave up on it.
Thinking now that I may put it in the dunny,I will save on a year or so of bogroll.
- El Cid–Hmmmm, isn’t that Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun per Noel Coward?…LOL.
Yes, the witty, the urbane, the wonderful Noel Coward:
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun,
The Japanese don´t care to, the Chinese wouldn´t dare to,
Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one
But Englishmen detest-a siesta.
In the Philippines they have lovely screens to protect you from the glare.
In the Malay States, there are hats like plates which the Britishers won’t wear.
At twelve noon the natives swoon and no further work is done,
But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.Shelby Steele, in a piece in today’s WSJ speaks brilliantly about western civilization and anti-Americanism and how white guilt is making us hesitant and soft. Read it.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 05 02 at 11:29 AM • permalink
- “Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun . . .”
Well, I don’t know about the mad dogs, but aren’t Englishmen usually equipped with a pith helmet or slouch hat or something? Perhaps that’s Fisk’s problem: too much time in the sun with no headgear, causing his brain to bake like a potato in aluminum foil buried under hot coals.
- Can anybody “please explain” how the GayBC has been permitted to be so racist for so long by employing a middle-aged white imperialist Pom to dispatch his missives from on high on the poor befuddled stone-throwing masses below him?
Surely, some local Muhammadan would be more fitting with the GayBC’s charter? Allah Akbah!
- I see that Fisk’s ‘source’ is someone there that he has known for ‘fifteen years’. Gee, you don’t suppose the ‘source’ could be a hard-core Ba’athist, do you? Nah. Fisk would never fall for that, right?Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 05 03 at 01:36 AM • permalink
- Firstly we can only defeat the skin colour cringe by ignoring it and not feeling bad about being white.If we equally respect people whose skin is a different colour then why should our own colour matter in the scheme of things. Maybe we “whites” should take to calling ourselves non-black,non asians.
Secondly if “Europe scorns us” should we care-there would not BE a Europe if the Anglo countries did not rescue them from World Wars and the Communist USSR.
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It’s a moonbat circle jerk.