Posted on 10/22/2006 7:40:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker
There needs to be a pink slip in that little boy's pay envelope...
I have a feeling he did.
This jerk "misspoke" before and no one stopped him.
No mulligans.
People DIE because of this kind of propgandist BS encouraging the evil ones.
I think it's written in the US Diplomat Handbook, don't talk to Al-Jazeera.
This loser needs to be fired. This whole "misspeak" thing is BS and he knows it. A diplomat's job (esp. one as qualified as this jerk, see previous postings.) is to speak the right words at the right time. He didn't misspeak, he knew exactly what he was doing when he dissed the administration.
It is also written to never to tell the truth, when the news is bad.
If he said this at the New York Club he should get a pink slip. Saying it on Al Jezzerra should get him a bullet. I wonder how many of our young men and women will die as a result of this emboldening statement that will be played over and over again?
"U.S. State Department official Alberto Fernandez told Al Jazeera television..."
What the heck is anyone in our government doing on the TV channel which touts our enemies (even more than CNN!)???
Fernandez needs to be sent somewhere else, like the dark side of the Moon.
Some diplomat! What is he ... channeling Bin Ladin?
...self defeating, seed sowing, fine piece of work.
i have to ask how did one get such a nicely titled job?
ps....when they use arrogance, they REALLY mean I am envious of your accomplishments. I wish our system could deliver the same social benefits of technology, education, jobs and quality of life.
From Michelle Malkin:
[It was only last October, you see, when Alberto Fernandez, newly minted by Secretary Condoleezza Rice as director for public diplomacy at State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, made one of his obligatory "live dialogue" appearances on Islamonline.net. After cooing about the new Iraqi constitution, taking pains to stress that it expressly "recognizes the role of Islam" (thanks in no small part to State's labors), Fernandez proceeded straight to the required gushing over Qaradawi.
But wait a second. Hasn't Qaradawi has been banned from the U.S. for promoting terrorism? Surely the State Department can mount a full-throated defense of that, right? After all, isn't our moral compass supposed to be the Bush Doctrine — the one that says "you're either with us or with the terrorists"? Is it really that hard for State to say Qaradawi is a disgusting character promoting a noxious agenda, rather than a model of moderation?
Apparently. Such a choice, our chic-sensitive public-diplomacy pirector opined, was "for the Muslim Umma to decide." As for the rest of us, Fernandez would brook no denying that it is "important to listen to intelligent and thoughtful voices from the region like Sheikh Qaradawi, ... an important figure that deserves our attention."
You can still see Fernandez's endorsement of Qaradawi right here.
You want to know how Fernandez responded to criticism of his reckless jihadi suck-up remarks? He sniffed that they were "minor" comments, which he made just to be "polite," and were much ado about nothing. Look:
He's still surprised how minor comments get amplified when he does grant a rare English interview. Take the way right-wing pundits singled out one response from a 50-question live forum he did on the English-language Web site Islam Online. Fernandez referred to revivalist Sunni Muslim scholar Yusuf al Qaradawi—the founder of Islam Online—as "a respected scholar and religious leader worthy of the deepest respect." The National Review denounced Fernandez for being a "chic-sensitive" apologist "gushing over Qaradawi," who is banned from U.S. soil for his alleged links to terrorist groups. "It was just some BS answer, just to be polite, and they picked up on that one thing," says Fernandez If this is "the face of the United States in the Middle East," we need to withdraw all State Department bureaucrats from the region, find out what else Fernandez and his Arabic-speaking colleagues have been telling the Arab media, and boot them off the airwaves. Permanently. If showing "politeness" towards suicide bomb-embracing jihadi clerics and showing contempt for our country on enemy airwaves is how we plan to win "hearts and minds," we're screwed.]
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.