I Met With Syrian Ambassador - So Condi Should Too!

Fox & Friends Weekend/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

by Mark Finkelstein

July 30, 2006

If private citizens met a few years ago with the ambassador of a hostile country, then top US officials should do the same in the current sensitive context. That was the liberal logic Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News put on display this morning during 'The Long & the Short of It' segment on Fox & Friends Weekend. The topic was the conflict in the Middle East. Ratner decreed that the time had come for bringing in the "partners" in the area, and that in addition to Lebanon, "that means Syria." Syria? Partner? What-evuh.

Complained Ellen: "We have not even spoken to the Syrian ambassador to the United Nations" adding - as if this clinched the case - "somebody Jim and I met with!" Concluded Ratner: "The United States has not spoken to him in a year-and-a-half, and he's in Washington!"

Jim Pinkerton, the Newsday and TCS columnist who is Ellen's conservative counterpart [seen here with Ellen in a file photo], observed wryly: "Ellen and I did meet with him about three years ago. I'm not sure he said very much. I'm not sure he was very helpful or would be very helpful."

Continued Pinkerton: "What Ellen is locked into here is the mindset that this is somehow going to be negotiated. [Israel and Hezbollah] agree that there is a real war here. As long as Nasrullah is alive he'll want Israel to be dead, so I don't really see what bringing in France, or Germany or for that matter Syria has to do with making a settlement that actually stops Hezbollah from firing rockets into Israel."

Precisely.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

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[EagleUSA]

Should we have expected anything else from the spineless liberals but pandering KNEEPAD DIPLOMACY ????

[Bahbah]

Silly old Pinkerton. Dealing in reality rather than fantasy.

[Clara Lou]

Ellen Ratner is a nobody, a nothing. Anything she says is a waste of good oxygen.

[monkapotamus]

[Jameison]

""We have not even spoken to the Syrian ambassador to the United Nations" adding - as if this clinched the case - "somebody Jim and I met with!" Concluded Ratner: "The United States has not spoken to him in a year-and-a-half, and he's in Washington!"



ABC met and interviewed Bin Laden too, so therefore the American government should go interview Bin Laden too?
What a load of nonsense.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/

[mhx]

The American government should definitely go interview bin Laden :-)

[YaYa123]

Chicago Sun Times' Lynn Sweet predicted the following, but I didn't hear a thing about it...you reckon it fell through? Here's Sweet's "Scoop"

"Jesse Jackson: To meet with Syrian Ambassador
Opening a backchannel. the Rev. Jesse Jackson is set to meet with Syria's ambassador in Washington on Thursday to talk about the swelling Midde East crisis.

Reverend Jackson to Meet with Syrian Ambassador to
Discuss Middle East Peace Prospects

Washington, DC – The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. has been granted an audience with Dr. Imad Moustapha, the Syrian Ambassador to the United States. He will meet with Ambassador Moustapha at 12 noon on Thursday, July 27, 2007, at the Syrian Embassy in Washington DC.

Reverend Jackson will engage the Syrian Ambassador in a dialogue concerning the crisis gripping the Middle East, and explore ways in which Syria might play a positive role in the peace process."

[nuconvert]

Ratner and Pinkerton - between the two of them they have a combined IQ in triple digits.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Actually, Pinkerton is brilliant. He is a student of history, technology and popular culture. I'd encourage you to read some of his columns. You'll find links in the NewsBusters column.

[johnny7]

Every time Pinkerton starts to act like he 'gets it'... he'll say something completely idiotic that negates any discernible progress.

[bert]

J American Princesses live in Fantasia land. They have a rind around their heads that prevents reality to penetrate. Ellen is indoctrinated just as is an AlQueada zealot.

Both are enemies of America.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Do you find anything objectionable in what he said here? I found he made eminent good sense.

[bmwcyle]

I met short little liberal Ellan Ratb*&%h at the White House. I think Ellen should shut up and go away.

[painter]

If I was President the only way Syria would hear from me is from 15,000ft.

[johnny7]

Not in his dialog with Ratner. I had in mind some of his comments/observations on FOXNewsWatch.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks for clarification.

[nuconvert]

hmmm....I may have him confused with the little guy who wears the red bowtie. If so, I apologize.

[YaYa123]

# 9 url

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/07/jesse_jackson_to_meet_with_syr.html

[Miss Marple]

Another benefit of my attending the 7:30 Mass is that I always miss Ellen Ratner.

[cricket]

Was Ellen in the 'for' or 'against' column when Democrats - because of what Iraq's Prime Minister, would/could not say - refused 'on principle'- to be present for his appearance this past week in Congress. . .

. . .vs their wanting Bush to 'dialogue'/reach out ad nauseum. . .to our terrorists enemies and 'friends of our terrorists enemies'; whom have offered; PROMISED. . .all kinds of horrible retributions against Israel.

But hey. . .that's OKAY;we expect no less from the self-serving/hypocritical, never-owned-an-altruistic-thought. . .Demrats.

[Prost1]

I'd rather meet with Condi.

[Doctor Raoul]

I Met With Syrian Ambassador...

Probably delivering another shipment of arms for Hezbollah.

[Doctor Raoul]

I think Ellen should shut up and go away.

Bush should appoint her to negotiate with the insurgents. Strap a cargo chute on that fat ass, hve the loadmaster kick her out the tail while over enemy territory and let nature take it's course.

Buh Bye Rats...

[bmwcyle]

Sounds like a plan. Oh by the way Mr. Bull Horn worked well yesterday.

[Luigi Vasellini]

Ellen Ratner also said on Fox just before the Iraq war "I hope George Bush FAILS in Iraq" I wonder how many US troops she wanted dead??

[John Lenin]

Sure, they'll talk, send Nasrallah to Tel Aviv ...

[freedom1st]

Ellen is such an idiot. Let's meet with a representative of the government that is responsible for the assassination of Lebanon's Prime Minister. If you do you are effectively condoning their actions and you gain nothing.

[nutmeg]

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