Posted on 07/30/2006 10:05:55 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
July 30, 2006
If private citizens met a few years ago with the ambassador of a hostile country, then top US officials should do the same in the current sensitive context. That was the liberal logic Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News put on display this morning during 'The Long & the Short of It' segment on Fox & Friends Weekend. The topic was the conflict in the Middle East. Ratner decreed that the time had come for bringing in the "partners" in the area, and that in addition to Lebanon, "that means Syria." Syria? Partner? What-evuh.
Complained Ellen: "We have not even spoken to the Syrian ambassador to the United Nations" adding - as if this clinched the case - "somebody Jim and I met with!" Concluded Ratner: "The United States has not spoken to him in a year-and-a-half, and he's in Washington!"
Jim Pinkerton, the Newsday and TCS columnist who is Ellen's conservative counterpart [seen here with Ellen in a file photo], observed wryly: "Ellen and I did meet with him about three years ago. I'm not sure he said very much. I'm not sure he was very helpful or would be very helpful."
Continued Pinkerton: "What Ellen is locked into here is the mindset that this is somehow going to be negotiated. [Israel and Hezbollah] agree that there is a real war here. As long as Nasrullah is alive he'll want Israel to be dead, so I don't really see what bringing in France, or Germany or for that matter Syria has to do with making a settlement that actually stops Hezbollah from firing rockets into Israel."
Precisely.
Fox & Friends/NewsBusters liberal-logic ping to Today show list.
Should we have expected anything else from the spineless liberals but pandering KNEEPAD DIPLOMACY ????
Silly old Pinkerton. Dealing in reality rather than fantasy.
Ellen Ratner is a nobody, a nothing. Anything she says is a waste of good oxygen.
The American government should definitely go interview bin Laden :-)
Chicago Sun Times' Lynn Sweet predicted the following, but I didn't hear a thing about it...you reckon it fell through? Here's Sweet's "Scoop"
"Jesse Jackson: To meet with Syrian Ambassador
Opening a backchannel. the Rev. Jesse Jackson is set to meet with Syria's ambassador in Washington on Thursday to talk about the swelling Midde East crisis.
Reverend Jackson to Meet with Syrian Ambassador to
Discuss Middle East Peace Prospects
Washington, DC – The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. has been granted an audience with Dr. Imad Moustapha, the Syrian Ambassador to the United States. He will meet with Ambassador Moustapha at 12 noon on Thursday, July 27, 2007, at the Syrian Embassy in Washington DC.
Reverend Jackson will engage the Syrian Ambassador in a dialogue concerning the crisis gripping the Middle East, and explore ways in which Syria might play a positive role in the peace process."
Ratner and Pinkerton - between the two of them they have a combined IQ in triple digits.
Actually, Pinkerton is brilliant. He is a student of history, technology and popular culture. I'd encourage you to read some of his columns. You'll find links in the NewsBusters column.
J American Princesses live in Fantasia land. They have a rind around their heads that prevents reality to penetrate. Ellen is indoctrinated just as is an AlQueada zealot.
Both are enemies of America.
Do you find anything objectionable in what he said here? I found he made eminent good sense.
I met short little liberal Ellan Ratb*&%h at the White House. I think Ellen should shut up and go away.
If I was President the only way Syria would hear from me is from 15,000ft.
Thanks for clarification.
hmmm....I may have him confused with the little guy who wears the red bowtie. If so, I apologize.
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