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THE_TRUE_FISK

                                             December 10, 2006

The problem they have with Fisk is not an
occasional factual error, not the flight
of overblown rhetoric -- the problem is           THE_AUTUMNAL_WEB
that he says things like this (from an
interview):

       The Israelis say, "Well, we have these
       brilliant pilots, and we've absolute
       pinpoint accuracy, surgical strikes."
       Well, if that's true, then the pilots
       are deliberately intending to kill
       civilians. And that's a war
       crime. That's a crime against humanity
       by the Israeli Air Force. Or, they
       don't know what they're shooting at,
       in which case their pilots are a
       riffraff. You can't have it both
       ways. You can't.

       And we had the same thing in 1982. We
       had the same thing in '93. We had the
       same thing in '96. Here we go again
       with our little short memories in the
       news business. The same arguments:
       human shields, direct perfect pilots,
       synchronized bombing, surgical
       strikes. And they kill all these
       children again and again.


         -- Robert Fisk, Tuesday, September 5th, 2006,
            interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now

            [ref]


These are things that should be
obvious by now, but many still
don't want to hear them said...


   I propose a new definition for the verb "fisk":
   doggedly conveying an unpleasant truth.

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