25 September 2011

And you thought The Guardian was bad on the Middle East?

You think I'm joking? How about Robert Fisk's (almost) latest in The Independent? Yet again, Fisk lets us know that "The Lobby" wins the day. As a comment on Engage said (not mine, and I paraphrase) "All this money, and this is the best The Lobby can get? Israel needs security?"

Read the rest of Fisk's predictable thoughts here.

Perhaps Adam Levick should sub-contract an Independent Watch to supplement his excellent work on Comment Is Free. Just don't ask me to do it, please, my nerves couldn't stand it. I only saw the offending article because the hotel we were staying in gave it away. It certainly couldn't sell it to me.

Contributed by Brian Goldfarb.

9 comments:

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Paraphrasing the esteemed Mr Fisk himself, A Martian reading his article would think that it was penned by one of his country(planet) men.

Pisa said...

I managed to read Fisk's article until my unbelieving eyes got stuck on the words "Haaretz, that finest of Israeli newspapers". That's my red line. I'm afraid to read it further.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Don't be afraid, Pisa. While Fisk was alive, he was much worse. Now he is just a shadow of old self. Toothless zombi flapping its gums...

Adam Levick said...

<span>Thanks, but the truth is that reading the Guardian everyday provides all the tsoris I can handle for one lifetime;-)</span>

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Nah, don't be too humble, you can take on Fisk for dessert.

peterthehungarian said...

Mr. Fisk probably didn't see this clip:
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3130.htm

jams o donnell said...

And yet he still wrote an excellent work on Irish neutrality in WWII... Stoped clocks and blind squirrels....

THe comments sections of most newspapers revolt me. The revulsion is only exceeded by the shit spewed by the people leaving comments. If you theink he people who comment in CiF are bad, DON'T ever, ever, read the comments in the Telegraph,

Papers pay people to spuout utter wank masquerading as informed opinion. The readers respond by spouting worse wank for free!

SnoopyTheGoon said...

You know how it goes: if you cannot write - blog, if you cannot blog - Facebook, if you can't Facebook - comment. Bottom feeders, in short...

SnoopyTheGoon said...

I doubt that this clip would have changed fisk's views. He knows it very well.