Posted on 03/01/2006 12:18:44 PM PST by Apolitical
Nearly three years ago, the space shuttle Columbia crashed, and Katie Couric on NBCs Today show saluted the fallen heroes as follows: They were an airborne United Nationsmen, women, an African-American, an Indian woman, an Israeli.... By contrast, theres a famous terror-supporting Islamist imam in Britain, Abu Hamza, who, when the shuttle crashed, claimed it was Gods punishment because it carried Americans, an Israeli and a Hindu, a trinity of evil against Islam. Say what you like about the old Islamofascist nutcake, but he was at least paying attention to the particulars of the situation, not just peddling, as Katie Couric did, vapid multi-culti bromides.
Why couldnt Katie have said the Columbia was an airborne America? After all, the Indian woman, Kalpana Chawla, was the American Dream writ large upon the stars: she emigrated to the U.S. in the 1980s and became an astronaut within a decade. What an incredible country.
In the days before Miss Courics observation, there had been two notable news items about the United Nations: (1) The newly elected chair of the UN Human Rights Commission was Colonel Gaddafis Libya; and (2) it was announced that in May, the presidency of the UN Conference on Disarmament would pass to Saddam Husseins Iraq. But as Katie demonstrated, no matter what the UN actually is, the very initials evoke in her and many others some vague blurry memory of a long-ago UNESCO benefit with Danny Kaye or Audrey Hepburn......
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