Americans Don't Like U.N., and its All Limbaugh's and Fox News' Fault!

NY Times/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

by Mark Finkelstein

June 7, 2006

According to this article in the New York Times, Americans out in the heartland don't like the U.N., and its all the fault of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

Said Mark Malloch Brown a Briton who is deputy to Secretary General Kofi Annan, there is "too much unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping." He added:

"Much of the public discourse [about the U.N.] that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News," he said.

Malloch Brown also took a swipe at US Ambassador John Bolton. As per the Times article:

"Mr. Malloch Brown did not mention Mr. Bolton by name, but he criticized the working strategy that many diplomats have associated with Mr. Bolton since his arrival last August. "Exacerbating matters is the widely held perception, even among many U.S. allies, that the U.S. tends to hold on to maximalist positions when it could be finding middle ground," Mr. Malloch Brown said."

If Malloch Brown is correct, sounds as if Rush and FNC are doing something right!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

NY Times/NewsBusters America-hates-the-UN ping to Today show list.

[MNJohnnie]

Yet another reason to respect both Limbaugh and Fox.

[BipolarBob]

As soon as the U.N. directives take place and free speech is revoked, there will be no more U.N. bashing (or Rush Limbaugh or Foxnews). That will solve everything.

[Hugin]

"Exacerbating matters is the widely held perception, even among many U.S. allies, that the U.S. tends to hold on to maximalist positions when it could be finding middle ground," Mr. Malloch Brown said."


IOW, the US should be morally pliant spineless jackals like the Euroweenies.

[GrandEagle]

there is "too much unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping." He added:

Telling; VERY telling.

GE

[Billthedrill]

Said Mark Malloch Brown a Briton who is deputy to Secretary General Kofi Annan, there is "too much unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping."

As a result of far, far too much unchecked U.S.-bashing and stereotyping that has gone on in the UN for the last forty years. They never seem to recognize it, though, just as fish don't recognize water.

[#1CTYankee]

I don't need Fox News or Rush to tell me the U.N. S*cks!

The guy who wrote this is as irrelevant as the U.N. itself.

[Xenophon450]

Ahhh no one likes a bunch of child raping, corrupt, socialist dictators that think of ordinary people as subserviant subhumans as compared to them? Well rats I thought everyone would like that, who wouldnt???

[el_texicano]

Rush or Fox had nothing to do with it...The UN is a cesspool of corruption obvious to all who have eyes to see.

[Renegade]

I don't need Fox News or Rush to tell me the U.N. S*cks!





DITTO!!

[Red Badger]

Ever notice how in the liberals mind, nothing is ever THEIR fault?..........

[sheik yerbouty]

"A picture is worth a thousand words".

[Eric in the Ozarks]

How's the chow line at the UN these days, Mark ?

[theDentist]

Another effete blowhard explains America in a single sentence.

[Thom Pain]

Going to the UN and honoring the resolution controlling Desert Storm is what cost Papa Bush the presidency and what coused the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq in the last deacde -plus. If we had done then what we have had to do since then, Iraq would be much closer to becoming a peaceful, democratic society today. And, no one would have ever heard of Cindy Sheehan, and Casey would be manning a post in Guam.

Get U.S. out of the UN; get the UN out of the U.S.

[Tzimisce]

See this is why we need Government oversight of speech.

(/sarcasm)

[eyespysomething]

unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping.

I'm sure the UN would love to "check" all media and internet.

[BlackElk]

Hey, if Moloch Brown and Coffee And don't like Rush or Fox News, wait until Ann Coulter writes an unvarnished history of the United Nations! (I am trying to start a rumor here.)