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| 2004-09-24 |
| Dan Rather's initial, furious street-side defense of an amateurish forgery — smug, huffy, self-righteous — brings to mind one of those bad movies about the Paris barricades, especially the grainy, black-and-white shots of powdered and wigged aristocrats on their way to the Guillotine, yelling out of their carriages at pitchfork-carrying peasants. Worse than being duped, worse than cobbling together a highly politicized hit-piece during a war and in the waning days of an election, worse than the shady nature of the "unimpeachable" sources and the likely sordid origins of the story, and worse even than the pathetic nature of CBS's "expert" witnesses — worse than all that was Rather's ten-day denial of reality, culminating in the surreal half-admission that the phony documents could not be verified as accurate. That's the equivalent of saying that a corpse cannot be proven to be alive. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 MS: Anytime the USA wants to make an issue of Tibet in the UN, it's as simple as our UN representative standing up and making a speech. Kofi Annan won't stop him. Actually the US does this annually, but Mike Sylwester has been too absorbed in getting the truth from jihadi websites to notice. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-09-25 1:04:48 AM |
| #5 So, say Bush goes to UN and makes Tibet an issue (bad bad China, Tibets wants to be freeeee). A resolution acnowledging that Tibet wants to be freeee is presented for a vote and has a majority. Then....what? Nothing. United Nothings. That's all there is to it. |
| Posted by: Memesis 2004-09-25 1:02:55 AM |
| #4 How many countries belong to the UN? How many UN members have raised the Tibet issue in the UN during the last 20 years? Why is this Kofi Annan's fault? What has he done to prevent it? Why is it his personal responsibility to make this an issue when no UN members make it an issue? . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-09-25 12:57:59 AM |
| #3 OK Mike, you got us there, Kofi's record on Tibet is unimpeachable. Can't have the UN secretariate paying more attention to world injustice than various US administrations there can we. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-09-25 12:49:55 AM |
| #2 Under Mr. Annan, the U.N. won’t say a word about Tibet Now it's Kofi Annan's fault that the UN won't say a word about Tibet? Has the Bush Administration said anything about Tibet in the UN? Did the Clinton Administration? Did the first Bush Admministration? Did the Reagan Administration? Did the Carter Administration? Anytime the USA wants to make an issue of Tibet in the UN, it's as simple as our UN representative standing up and making a speech. Kofi Annan won't stop him. . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-09-25 12:45:08 AM |
| #1 brilliant, as usual. |
| Posted by: 2B 2004-09-24 5:06:24 PM |