Robert Fisk, the lying Arabist of Das Independent seems to have gotten himself into some hot water with his colleagues over a stupid remark (he makes so many of them) comparing Gaza to Homs in Syria.
by Damian Thompson
Robert Fisk, the Independent’s stridently anti-Zionist Middle East correspondent, is busy dodging bullets from his fellow foreign correspondents after suggesting that “the newsrooms of London and Washington didn’t have quite the same enthusiasm to get their folk into Gaza as they did to get them into Homs”.
Former colleagues of Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik, both killed by the Syrians, have been venting their fury against Fisk on a private Facebook page. Many of their comments expand on a remark made in the Guardian by Ian Black, the paper’s Middle East editor, who was reviewing the memoirs of Hugh Pope, a distinguished Middle East correspondent, which strongly criticise Fisk’s style of reporting. According to Black, Pope was “not the first journalist to wonder with envy and irritation how Fisk ‘managed to get an amazing sounding story from a dull day’.” Black was choosing his words carefully (as am I) but read between the lines.
Private Eye has rounded up the allegations made against Fisk, which you can read here. Hugh Pope and Ian Black are unusual in airing this controversy on the record; another public critic of Fisk is the Times’s former war correspondent Jamie Dettmer, whose website is utterly scathing about Fisk’s colourful reportage. Now that, thanks to the Eye, we know what other colleagues have been saying in a private online discussion, Fisk is in a tight spot – as is the Independent, former employer of Johann Hari.
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Tags: Damian Thompson, Robert Fisk
Good Mornin All…make it a great day!
do some thing kind today…we may not be able
to change the big things but the small things
we can
Fisk got fisked! Nice.
Fisk is slime.
I believe in calling a spade a spade, and in this case, an anti-Semite and anti-Semite. He doesn’t really bother to hide what he is, just gets a pass from so-called “respectible” company…
Iron Fist wrote:
IMPLEMENTIST!!!
@ coldwarrior:
…of DE-Struction.
Mike C. wrote:
yeah!!!
well, this explains a lot if true:
A source provided TheDC with an advance copy of the eBook, authored by Mike Allen and Evan Thomas. The book comes out Tuesday.
To quote Ayn Rand again, “You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.” (or something like that). As ‘opinion makers’ contradict the experience of their readers who continue to compete for jobs and make ends meet, they will lose their relevance.
Anti-Semitism has always been popular with the British upper class. They liked Hitler and they love Arab oil money. The City of London has a special tax structure that gives the rich a break. Don’t have a linky at the moment, but it’s not a well known thing.
@ coldwarrior:
OT- Hey when is this crap going to be addressed seriously?
@ Bumr50:
my alma matter at work!
OT and long. nttawwt lol. It’s a decent look at the rogue government overreach with the military.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-understanding-slave-mentality
@ Bumr50:
You could not make this stuff up. It’s too stoopid to even be considered Orwellian.
@ coldwarrior:
@ yenta-fada:
Pretty soon it’s going to be like a regular prison loo, once the perpetrators write the messages to their left and right.
Obama blames Israel for high gas prices:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/04/02/Obama-Admin-Blames-Israel-Oil-Prices
@Speranza.
Drive home time and Spring Fever to blame for scarce blog posts.
(channeling dems blaming everybody else) lol
coldwarrior wrote:
If true, Perry should have had the sense and the guts to either ask for a stool or high chair because he was in recovery—and thereby lessen his need for the painkillers—or to demand that everyone be seated instead of standing. Properly handled, mentioning the surgery recovery would have made him sympathetic, not made him seem weak.
That he did not do this again calls into question either his own judgment or the judgment of his managers/handlers—and, thus, we come back again to his judgment in choosing them and keeping them when their advice was clearly killing his campaign.
Bumr50 wrote:
When I was in basic training at Fort Polk, not only were there no doors on the stalls, there were no stalls. There were 6 toilets lined up against the wall, each about a foot from the next one. And ya know what? We didn’t have one friggin bomb threat. See… it works. //
h/t WZ “Obama takes aim at Supreme Court, calls them an unelected group of people”
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/04/02/obama-slams-activist-supreme-court-calls-them-unelected-group-people
huckfunn wrote:
I bet a few people dropped depth charges, though…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Ka-BOOM!
Weasel Zippers transcript of Ozero whining about the Supreme Court:
PRESIDENT OBAMA: “So there is not only an economic element and a legal element to this, but there is a human element to this, and I hope that is not forgotten in this political debate. Ultimately, I am confident the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a Democratically-elected Congress. I just remind conservative commentators that for years we have heard the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint. That an unelected group of people would somehow return or overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Here’s a pretty good example. Well, I am confident that this court will recognize that and not take that step. As I said, we are confident this will be over, this will be upheld. As I said, we are confident this will be upheld because it should be upheld. Again, that’s not just my opinion. That’s the opinion of a whole lot of constitutional law professors and academics and judges and lawyers who have examined this law, even if they’re not particularly sympathetic to this particular piece of legislation or my presidency.”
Obama warns ‘unelected’ Supreme Court against striking down health law
Imagine the nerve of those Supreme Court Justices thinking they could uphold the Constitution and defy Obama?
Don’t they understand how a Banana Republic operates? Humph!
yenta-fada wrote:
That’s the second time he’s called out the Supreme Court, the first being during the State of the Union. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I can’t remember a POTUS freely critiquing SCOTUS in this fashion. It’s more than a bit seemly.
@ yenta-fada:
He’s an off the chain totalitarian. He sees the Constitution and SCOTUS as impediments to his righteous rule.
@ yenta-fada:
Jinx!
@ MacDuff:
Unseemly.
Bagua’s Ghost wrote:
If I were any of the conservative Justices, I’d be very, very watchful where hit and run drivers are concerned—at least until the opinion is issued, and possibly afterwards.
MacDuff wrote:
Dewd! How ya been?
@ MacDuff:
Don’t be dense, google: People’s democratic dictatorship.
It’s democratic so it’s OK.
MacDuff wrote:
They’re going over this on Fox right now.
@ yenta-fada:
Now he is concerned about the “democratically elected congress” when he himself has no problem circumventing them.
@ huckfunn:
I’m good. Thanks for asking.
NoThreat2U wrote:
You’re misreading him. He’s all for a “Democratically elected Congress”; what he can’t abide is having to deal with a Republicanly-elected Congress, as he’s had to since 2010.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Divided government and separation of powers are beautiful things.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Before the 2010 shellacking weren’t some dems already backing away from him?
NoThreat2U wrote:
Situational democracy.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Backing pre-shellacking?
Can’t remember; wasn’t tracking…
NoThreat2U wrote:
His support is a mile wide and an inch deep; I’m not at all pessimistic at our chances. Not at all.
huckfunn wrote:
I think he gets more obvious every day. You do have to be paying attention to see it though. He has one strategy only and it’s been enough to propel him to the leadership of the free world. Why or how can he possibly abandon it? People are, one by one, waking up. The question is, will they do it before the coronation?
It didn’t turn out that well for Julius Caesar./
Bagua’s Ghost wrote:
@ MacDuff:
Exactly!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
None of the dems wanted his support because being aligned with him is toxic.
@ MacDuff:
I refuse to give up.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Check yinz e-mail.
MacDuff wrote:
Oh, it might be eight miles wide.
MacDuff wrote:
Well said. There is NO reason to let the Dem propaganda machine mess with your mind. It plays into their hands. Believe me, there have to be a lot of people who can no longer stand to listen to Ozero go “blah, blah, blah”.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Maybe you’re thinking about Michelle…..
This is a great site for a blog summary of Ozero’s radicalism & related topics.
http://directorblue.blogspot.ca/2012/04/larwyns-linx-cardinal-dolan-obamas.html
MacDuff wrote:
Since Obama raised the issue, I was just trying to figure out a large enough venue for him to hold the c*nt reception.
MacDuff wrote:
heh
http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2012/04/michelle-obama-dressed-like-a-street-walker-at-nickelodeons-kids-choice-awards/
@ yenta-fada:
Checked and responded
Not Robert “beat me again” Fisk?
Wasn’t he with the BBC in 2003 claiming “the Americans are no where near Baghdad airport” on live television while the studio cameras were showing US M1 Abrams blizting over the runways? Also didn’t his studio colleagues tried to clue him in giving hime a few hints, but he stuck to his guns… and lost his job.
@ m:
Yes “Fisking” became a verb.
Fisk is lower then slime.
coldwarrior wrote:
Of all the candidates based strictly on his record, I felt he would have made the best POTUS.
Before I pack it in, this is huge:
Obama campaign disables credit card verification for donations, just like it did in 2008.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
That was Baghdad Bob but maybe Fisk said the same thing.
@ yenta-fada:
I was ill for most of today.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Completely disagree with you, he showed integrity and when he refused to play the nativist card (as did I must give them credit Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich) as opposed to the odious pygmies such as Bachmann-Turner-Over Drive, Father Santorum, and Willard Romney.
@ Speranza:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/885199/posts
Robert Fisk: Reports of airport assault premature
But few here believe the Americans cannot bash their way into Baghdad if they really want to. After all, Napoleon got to Moscow in the end. I guess it’s the same old question. The Russians could hold Stalingrad because they loved Russia as much as they feared Marshal Stalin. Does that equation of patriotism and dictatorship apply to the Iraqis? Messers Bush and Blair must hope it does not.
I didn’t know stupidity could be stacked so high.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Ok yes now I remember that.
He also got beat up by some Afghans and wrote that if he were an Afghan he would have do\ne the same.
Speranza wrote:
I’m sorry to hear that. Get well soon, drink lots of liquids, and other yenta type stuff.
*Chicken Soup*
yenta-fada wrote:
I have become a real soup maven -- my favorite being any tomato soup and mulligatawny (an Indian lentil and rice soup).
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Wow. People aren’t writing the big checks for Ozero these days…even with constant fundraising by POTUS and the magic of FLOTUS. FRAUD, much?
@ Buckeye Abroad:
The Blogmocracy has a long memory, not a memory hole. Good one.
Here’s a project that will take some serious research.
43 members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are wailing about the Trayvon thing. CHALLENGE. How many young blacks, aged 1 day to 25 years old, died from black on black violence in each CBC district, during each CBC member’s tenure (year-by-year) over the past 5 years? What were the causes? What has each CBC member done about it? What have reverends Jackson and Sharpton done about it? What has the Attorney General done about it? What has the POS-in-Chief done about it? Where are the investigative journalists? What does the Congressional White Caucus (CWC) say about this? (Hint; there ain’t no CWC— that would be RAAAAACIST).
Today was so awful, I kept looking around to see if Nicholas Cage was in it.
Speranza wrote:
So you got a problem with Nick Cage looking over your shoulder?
huckfunn wrote:
Nah it’s just that outside of two films I can never remember him being a good movie.
@ Speranza:
I liked him in Raising Arizona. Other than that, he’s just too weird and creepy.
@ Speranza:
The GOP should go out of business if they lose this election.
Rodan wrote:
I am afraid they will blow it.
huckfunn wrote:
I forgot about Raising Arizona. I liked Honeymoon in Vegas and Moonstruck.