Telling it like it isn't [FISK alert]

LA Slimes ^ | Dec. 27, 2005 | Robert Fisk

[Alouette]

ROBERT FISK is Middle East correspondent for the London Independent and the author, most recently, of "The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East," published last month by Knopf.

I FIRST REALIZED the enormous pressures on American journalists in the Middle East when I went some years ago to say goodbye to a colleague from the Boston Globe. I expressed my sorrow that he was leaving a region where he had obviously enjoyed reporting. I could save my sorrows for someone else, he said. One of the joys of leaving was that he would no longer have to alter the truth to suit his paper's more vociferous readers.

"I used to call the Israeli Likud Party 'right wing,' " he said. "But recently, my editors have been telling me not to use the phrase. A lot of our readers objected." And so now, I asked? "We just don't call it 'right wing' anymore."

[Alouette]

Barbra wont have to cancel her subscription after all.

[Alouette]

FRmail me to be added or removed from this Judaic/pro-Israel/Russian Jewry ping list.

Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.

[backhoe]

The Vermin Fisk has his own special award:

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php

Be sure to read the "comments" at the bottom:

Fiskie Nominations Now Open

Yes, it’s the first of December, and that means it’s time to open the nominations for LGF’s Annual Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year (Fiskie for short). 

Previous Idiotarian Champions:

2002: Jimmy Carter
2003: Rachel Corrie
2004: Michael Moore

UPDATE at 12/1/05 10:23:49 am:

This year, we suspect it’s going to be awfully hard to beat Cindy Sheehan.

10:18 AM PST | link: 600 comments

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

And when the Palestinians and the jihadists perform "special treatment" on the people of a defeated Israel, as they have repeatedly vowed, I ask you: what, Mr. Fisk, will you propose to call *that*?

[vimto]

Fisk writes virtually daily in the Independent UK - it is hard to describe the level of unreality the chap lives in.

[sheik yerbouty]

He ought to go fisk himself..

[veronica]

If a Jewish colony built illegally on Arab land is simply a nice friendly "neighborhood," then any Palestinian who attacks it must be carrying out a mindless terrorist act.

Letting his Jewhatred freak fly free I see.

"My feeling about the so-called occupied territories are that there was a war, Israel urged neighboring countries not to get involved in it once it started, they all jumped in, and they lost a lot of real estate to Israel because Israel prevailed in that conflict. In the intervening period, they've made some settlements in various parts of the so-called occupied area, which was the result of a war, which they won."

---Donald Rumsfeld

[Roscoe Karns]

So let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is, let's call a wall a wall

Let's call a terrorist a terrorist, let's call the anti-war movement/ANSWER what it is, let's call a defeatist a defeatist...

[Alouette]

Fisk writes virtually daily in the Independent UK

"The Independent" is streng verboten on FR so we don't get that many opportunities for a good Fisking.

[vimto]

There is much a conservative might disagree with but this chap Fisk is way out west. He hates America with a vengeance. Even some liberals are uneasy about his rhetoric.

[vimto]

Should post more from the 'Indie' then - red rag to a bull - lots of fun to be had 'dissing' and zotting it though!