Posted on 12/31/2007 9:34:39 AM PST by captjanaway
Recently, conservative writer and former National Review Online contributor W. Thomas Smith, Jr., was attacked in the blogosphere and media for his NRO blogging while he was in Lebanon. The attacks against him were not only baseless, but because the reaction to them was so appalling and shameful to our business, almost in too many ways to elaborate fully here, I’m moved to comment on the whole grisly affair.
At the extreme, Smith was accused of lying about stories that no one else uncovered or reported in Lebanon. He is said to have lied, yet the evidence given to that charge was that no one else reported what Smith did, nor were they even aware of the events he reported. So how does that make Smith a “liar”? In fact, there is absolutely no evidence, much less any sliver of proof, that Smith lied about anything. On the contrary, Lebanon experts like Tom Harb and John Hajjar, both senior officials with the International Lebanese Committee for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559, contend Smith dared to report the absolute truth that no other reporter in that country had the guts to report or the skill to uncover.
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I have no doubt that a genocide of Lebanese Maronites is in the works.
Ping for later.
On first blush, this is what came to mind:
"Umm, I think it's a joke, sir... like, uh, 'Sillius Soddus' or... 'Biggus D***us', sir."
“He has a wife, you know? Would you like to know what she is called? Hmmm?”
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