I’m sorry, but who is this utter moron interviewing an Israeli ambassador? Because she’s an effing moron. I know that the news channels are choosing their anchors for their pretty power, but can’t they at least find some of them that are both pretty and smart?
“So what are all the options that Israel looks into to say ‘We want to cripple, behead Hamas completely, stop the missile attacks.’ What are all the options before deciding on this one, air assault, ground assault—what were the other things to consider to help bring about the same objective?”
You mean, bimbo, negotiating with Hamas? What Israel did in the last year or so?
“Does it seem like there’s any real resolution? ‘Cause it kinda seems like it all is cyclical. It all goes back to the same thing over and over again, where you got two sides who say “We don’t see it the same way and so let’s resort to, you know, firing at one another and, you know, how is anyone gaining anything? Lives continue to be lost, destroyed, where’s the hope here?”
Kudos to Reda Mansour for not laughing.
How much you want to bet that’s an Obama voter, right there?
You mean you can guess someone’s political affiliation just brcause they offer simplistic analysis and moral equivalence?How do you do it?
Amb Mansour has been in Atlanta long enough that we are proud to be able to call him “ours.” He is a gentleman and absolute scholar, and one of the nicest, most genuine folks around. The nitwits at Foggy Bottom should learn from him.
The Crackpot News Network (also, I am embarrassed to say, based in Atlanta) makes me meshuganah. When we travel I avoid CNN-Int’l because it gives me indigestion.
As to the amateur who did the interview: maybe she should join the party I want to throw at Sderot with Cynthia McKinney, Cindy Sheehan, Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, the King of Jordan, John Dingell, and, of course, “Hot Legs” Cwis Matthews, and Robert Fisk. And maybe then they will shut up a while and listen to the howling missiles that came from our friends through the Philaphi tunnels.
The Flower Children of the 1960s became the high school and college teachers of the 1990s, and the students of the 1990s are the talking heads and Highly Educated Professional Journalists of today.
Hopey new year.
I watched Walid Phares be interviewed by a very pretty, very spacey young woman for FOX News, shortly after we went into Iraq. She was a parody of a valley girl newsanchor. I was cringing. Phares was extremely gracious, but seemed a little freaked out by her complete lack of knowledge of the history, iconography, or indeed basic physics, of the Middle East.