Shoulda shut his yap

I learned, via LGF, that Kofi Annan and much the rest of the United Nations bunch of ne’er-do-wells think Americans don’t support their shenanigans because we’re getting a skewed view of that august body from our governmental lapdog media.

Annan’s own lapdog, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, thinks he’s got the explanation, according to this article from the New York Times: Official of U.N. Says Americans Undermine It With Criticism.

Mr. Malloch Brown said that although the United States was constructively engaged with the United Nations in many areas, the American public was shielded from knowledge of that by Washington’s tolerance of what he called “too much unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping.”

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

Uh, here’s a clue, Brownie: We’re a free country with a free media, unlike so many of your other member states. We also have little tolerance for bullcrap being packaged as rose petals. When you can explain brutal dictatorships having seats on the human rights commission, diplomats profiting through Saddam’s Oil-For-Food scam while Iraqis suffered, U.N. peacekeepers turning strife-torn countries into their personal pedophilic brothels and the Security Council sitting idly by while Iran pursues it’s oft-stated goal of nuclear arms – then I’ll take the time to listen to your rantings, because Hell will have frozen over.

You want a little respect for the U.N., Brownie, you Rodney Dangerfield wannabe? Try earning it. Try accomplishing something…anything…useful. The U.N. is good at publishing papers and its oratorical prowess is unmatched, but why should anyone have a favorable opinion of what amounts to a full employment program for corrupt bureaucratic windbags and sycophants to tyrants?

Apparently no one bothered to pass along the world government memo to Mr. Brown either - Item: We’re a free country and we’re not interested in your vision of a world government…see, we have our own government and, despite its flaws, it works pretty well. We don’t like tyrants and sycophants hoping to legislate away our Constitutional freedoms, either, in the name of global unity, or using junk science to try to back up an income redistribution scam dressed up as environmental concerns.

See, Mr. Brown, here in the good ole US of A, we have a thing called the internet. And unlike citizens of many of your member states, our access to content is not filtered…we can find out the truth on any number of subjects. We don’t really need Rush Limbaugh and FOX News to point out the glaring problems with the United Nations…they’re apparent to anyone with any knowledge of world affairs. I think the real problem you’ve got with those media outlets is that you can’t spin their content to your liking as is possible with some of the more traditional media outlets which are apparently in awe of your grandeur.

Best idea? Shut your trap until you have something useful to say. Better yet, just shut your trap…remember that old saying “it’s better to keep your mouth shut and be considered a fool, than to open your mouth and confirm it?”

Words to live by, Brownie, words to live by.