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2020-11-10 -Obits-

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Posted by Fred 2020-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 He would probably aver "I deserve to be dead and certainly understand why I am dead..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-11-10 01:56|| 2020-11-10 01:56|| Front Page Top

#2 He was the source of the term "fisking", of which his works were a frequent recipient here.

Despite the adulatory tone, the guy was regarded as a clown due to he's easily refuted crappy reporting. This was back when journalism actually had ethics and standards regarding facts.

(Cambridge dictionary defines it thusly: "the act of making an argument seem wrong or stupid by showing the mistakes in each of its points")

Sadly that is not the way things are now thanks to progressivism: a slurry of invective and namecalling against the individual (Racist! Orange Man Bad!) rather than addressing the arguments, reasoning, and/or facts.

Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-11-10 01:58|| 2020-11-10 01:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Fisk was trusted by Bin Laden. He was the first Western journalist to be granted an interview when the Saudi expat was resident in Khartoum in 1993.

Posted by b 2020-11-10 10:58|| 2020-11-10 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 "Bye, Felecia."

Posted by Barbara 2020-11-10 19:11|| 2020-11-10 19:11|| Front Page Top

#5 The picture that should come up on a web search for "Useful Idiot'. R.I.P.

Posted by magpie 2020-11-10 21:43|| 2020-11-10 21:43|| Front Page Top

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