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Mark Steyn -- on Britian's other Brown |
2007-06-30 |
This can't be good For those who didn't click through to Kathryn's link yesterday, it's worth doing so. Gordon Brown's elevation of Mark Malloch Brown to the House of Lords and thence to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is one of the most revolting public appointments in modern British history. Malloch Brown was Kofi Annan's deputy at the UN and widely promoted (and self-promoted) as an agent of reform, or rather "reform". He's best known to Americans for his Trent Lott-esque attack on talk radio. As I wrote in NR exactly a year ago: The bit in the speech that got everyone's attention was when he argued that the reason the U.N. was so unpopular in America was that the moronic hayseeds in flyover country had fallen for the right-wing blowhards — or, as he put it, "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 didn't, in fact, say "Limbaugh" but "Lim-bow," as in "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow." A chap as important as Mr. Malloch Brown can't be expected to tune in a radio and actually listen to Rush in order to get his name correct: After all, he's a lot busier than those dimwit yokels in the "heartland"... George Soros has been Malloch Brown's patron for decades. Upon his retirement from the UN, the deputy secretary-general became vice-chair of Soros' hedge fund company and "Open Society Institute". With respect to Andrew Stuttaford, anyone inclined to join the good-riddance-to-Blair chorus of the last week might now appreciate the difference he made: a huge chunk of the foreign policy of America's closest ally has just been outsourced to a man who is the living embodiment of the worst kind of sleazy careerist transnationalism, and an all but wholly owned subsidiary of George Soros. Amazing. |
Posted by:Sherry |
#3 Amazing indeed. I hope this is just an error of judgement, but I suspect it is an ominous sign of creeping anti-democratic transnationalism. BTW, interesting effort underway at Climate Audit to use US FOI laws to get the UN's IPCC to open up. I predict there are some juicy skeletons waiting to found. |
Posted by: phil_b 2007-06-30 20:59 |
#2 Mark Malloch "Soros's Bitch" Brown. Has a ring to it. Gotta love Steyn |
Posted by: Frank G 2007-06-30 20:02 |
#1 The appropriate response is to make Bolton Secretary of State. Let's hope Fred does that. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-06-30 16:10 |