« Is It Breathing? Yes? Give It 500 Bucks! | When Covering Global Warming, Why Bother With Facts? »

February 28th 2007     

The Mental Misfits Who Cover The UN

Posted by: Laer at 07:27 pm

Yesterday, Ban-ki Moon met with the parents of two kidnapped Israel Defense Force soldiers.

Nice of him to do so, even if he has virtually no power to do anything whatsoever for those two poor souls. At today’s UN press briefing the matter came up. You’ll love this.

Question: Yesterday, I think you said that the Secretary-General met with the families of the Israeli soldiers, prisoners. Will the Secretary-General also consider meeting with the families of prisoners now in the US jails, as reported by Human Rights Watch yesterday, by the CIA?

Spokesperson: He hasn’t been asked yet.

Excuse me? Is there not some sort of competency test for journalists? Is there not a better answer than, “He hasn’t been asked yet?” Like maybe, “Are you out of your ever-lovin’ mind?”

Just to clarify: The soldiers were kidnapped on duty, a war ensued, and they’re still being held after the war ended, in violation of all international understandings on the treatment of war prisoners.

The Human Rights Watch allegations about captured terrorists whose whereabouts are supposedly unknown are unsubstantiated and could be considered credible only by people who consider testimony by terrorists against their enemies to be credible. To raise these phantom terrorists to the same level of the Israeli soldiers is sheer lunacy.

Yet the guy asking the question has UN press credentials. If you know someone with a mental defect that leaves him with absolutely no mental discernment, I think I know where you can get him a job.

Share this Logic Bomb with others: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • bodytext
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Mixx
  • Google
  • De.lirio.us
  • Reddit
  • SphereIt
  • Technorati
  • YahooMyWeb
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
No tags for this post.

Posted in Israel, U.N., United Nations | No Comments yet » | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Recent Posts:

Post URITrackback URI

Leave a Reply

[The "Comment Box" is WYSIWYG except that you have to double space between paragraphs!
Type it the way you want it to look -- Just remember to double up those line spaces.]

Tags:
Separate individual tags by commas

« Is It Breathing? Yes? Give It 500 Bucks! | When Covering Global Warming, Why Bother With Facts? »

With Obama winning the presidency by seven percent, we can't blame the media. Their laudatory coverage and refusal to extensively probe into Obama's background and [lack of] experience was at best responsible for five percent of his vote, the pundits tell us. Here is a compilation of over 100 significant instances of pro-Obama/anti-McCain bias during the 2008 campaign.

For all 'Media Bias 2008' – Click Here