[lbo-talk] Fisk on Olaya, the UN outpost and other things

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 28 10:30:52 PDT 2006


On 7/28/06, mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Fisk's a good journalist, but he's also something of a windbag, given to
> grandiose prounouncements and to contradicting himself all over the place.
> It's why he 's such a punching bag for the right. In Iraq, he issued similar
> pronouncements that the U.S. was losing to Saddam even as Baghdad fell.

He also repeatedly dismissed the notion of a civil war erupting in Iraq as absurd.

But he's a punching bag for the right probably more because he's a good journalist.

-- Andy



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