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                                             December 10, 2006


I think the problem that they have with
Fisk is not an occasional factual error
or flight of overblown rhetoric -- the            THE_AUTUMNAL_WEB
problem is 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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