Wall St. Journal mocks Rachel Corrie’s death
Politics 01/14/2004 |On March 16th of last year, Evergreen student Rachel Corrie was run over by an Israeli bulldozer and killed while trying to protect a Palestinian home being demolished. Now, right-wing weblog Little Green Footballs has awarded her their “idiotarian of the year” award, and the Wall Street Journal has seen fit to include this in a “Best of the Web” roundup under the headline “A Well-Deserved Award”.
Little Green Footballs has given out its second annual Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year. This year’s winner: Rachel Corrie, the terror advocate who died in a bulldozer accident last March. Corrie picked up 28.8% of the vote in the 10-candidate finals, edging out Michael Moore (26.7%), who also finished second (behind Jimmy Carter) in 2002. Moore, who we hear dedicated his most recent “book” to Corrie, is the Susan Lucci of idiotarians. As one LGF commenter writes, “Michael Moore has to be crushed he didn’t win.”
The WSJ’s wording of the account is especially troubling. From what I’ve read, Rachel was a peace activist using non-violent means to try to intervene in the conflict in the Gaza Strip — hardly someone I’d describe as a “terror advocate.” I also see a large gulf between a “bulldozer accident” and a woman in a flourescent jacket wielding a bullhorn being run over by a bulldozer, which then drops its blade and backs over her a second time.
No matter which side of the Israel/Palestine conflict you stand on (an issue which I haven’t investigated enough to truly have an opinion one way or another), or how you feel about Rachel Corrie’s goals and methods (something which I have my own doubts about), to so blatantly and callously mock her death is truly despicable.
(via Kos)
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January 14th, 2004 at 3:21 pm
I’m afraid that Little Green Footballs is the impacted cloaca of blogdom, so I’m not surprised. There’s all kinds of nasty sewage backing up in there, so it’s just as well it exists as a place to attract the worst element to come sit and fester.
January 14th, 2004 at 4:42 pm
LGF has managed to wrap its post-9/11 anxiety and general xenophobia into a weblog. Sadly, a lot of people feel the same. There is immense power in denigration and mockery, more than in sanity and moderation, which is all too visible in the demagogic and popularity of the far extremes on either side. ISM isn’t, what I’d call a humanitarian group, but it isn’t a terrorist organization, either. I don’t know, why Rachel went to Rafah, and I have no clue as to whether the bulldozer driver had murder or damage control in his mind, when he backed over her a second time. For all I know, though, the event is tragic, the death of a young American a shame, and the silence of every government involved (as well as the shameless exploitation of her death by some groups, most notably Hamas and Hezbollah), is a shame.
I’m not surprised LGF (and subsequently WSJ) picked up on Rachel. Heck, friends of mine refer to her as “the Pancake” (I lost a friend, that way, plus dentist costs, and he two teeth). She’s easy pickings, she’s dead, she supported a cause that has been thoroughly distorted by both sides of the conflict, and she’s easily photoshopped.
As I said on my site - dancing on the streets when an American is killed by a soldier or terrorist is the most disgusting form of treason. We know, who the traitors are, and there will come a time, where justice may be doled out. I personally don’t advocate violence, but someone else may take LGF and the WSJ editor up on their opinion, that traitors must be dealt with swiftly and violently. Let’s hope, that never happens.
January 14th, 2004 at 6:17 pm
The non-editorial content of the WSJ is separate from the editorial group as if they were different states. One is fully insulated from the other and it’s been that way since 1964. That’s why you can read an editorial and have it negated by a story on the front page.(e.g. the current state of our “strong” dollar along the Pacific Rim. HEY WSJ OPINION JOURNAL - F the Euro we live on the Left Coast.)
Best of the Web is free and the rest of the Journal is a paid subscription. You certainly get what you pay for, don’t you? BTW - we susbscribe to the print edition.
Once I saw LGF I shut off the rest of the info. If you want adequate critique - read the Libertarians. As I said on my page yesterday- the whole right-of-center Amen Corner is like having Yosemite Sam interpret The Social Contract.
Pay these people no mind.
RE- Rachel, you have to wonder why her passion was never expressed in her own community.
January 14th, 2004 at 10:48 pm
That makes things a little clearer, if no less disheartening. I’ve known of LGF for a while, and steer clear of them — it was the bit in the WSJ that really ticked me off. I guess it’s one thing in my mind to run what’s essentially a far-right-wing hate site, and quite another to be a major media publication putting crap like that out.
January 15th, 2004 at 3:09 am
It is disgusting how far the media would go just in order to fill their pages with “news”. I have been living in Germany for the past few months, and the only English newspaper I can readily get is WSJ (being that it is distributed free at my university). It is mind-numbing how far to the right one can go. This last piece goes beyond actual journalism.It is either some sick form of humor, or worse…
On a related note,Being a Lebanese citizen, and thus closely related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I can honestly say I am bored with it. To sum up, Israelis had no true basis for taking over a country and making it their own (basing their reasoning loosely on the Torah!) but, that was what the British and the rest of WWII victors wanted, and so it was. Still, that story is around 60 years old, so honestly, the palestinians should get over it! Nothing justifies fundamentalists blowing up night clubs full of kids. This is pure evil. On the other hand, bulldozing people’s homes and confiscating or destroying their life’s work is also up their on the villian scale.
Honestly, I think the solution is really simple, the US, and other big countries should stop being biased. The arabs should stop blaming everything on infidels and declaring Jihad like there’s no tomorrow. Someone should slap both sides around until they realize how childish they are… And while they’re at it, getting rid of Hezbollah back home (a bit to the north) would be really appreciated by yours truly.
January 15th, 2004 at 4:01 pm
People who use the word ” idiotarian” are idiots.
March 16th, 2004 at 7:49 pm
A poem in rememberance of Rachel from anti-com:
[Glinda] Come out, come out, wherever you are and meet the young lady, who fell from a star. She fell from the sky, she fell very far and Kansas, she says, is the name of the star.
[Munchkins] Kansas, she says, is the name of the star.
[Glinda] She brings you good news. Or haven’t you heard? When she fell out of Kansas A miracle occurred.
[Dorothy] It really was no miracle. What happened was just this. The wind began to switch - the house to pitch and suddenly the hinges started to unhitch. Just then the Witch - to satisfy an itch went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch.
[Munchkins] And oh, what happened then was rich. *The house began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch. It landed on the Wicked Witch in the middle of a ditch, Which was not a healthy situation for the Wicked Witch. *The house began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch. It landed on the Wicked Witch in the middle of a ditch, Which was not a healthy situation for the Wicked Witch. Who began to twitch and was reduced to just a stitch of what was once the Wicked Witch.
[Munchkin #1] We thank you very sweetly, for doing it so neatly.
[Munchkin #2] You’ve killed her so completely, that we thank you very sweetly.
[Glinda] Let the joyous news be spread, The Wicked Old Witch at last is dead!
June 19th, 2004 at 10:53 pm
“No matter which side of the Israel/Palestine conflict you stand on (an issue which I haven’t investigated enough to truly have an opinion one way or another)”
Yes, well that says it all, doesn’t it. Um, your confusion over the wording in the piece is based on your own staggering ignorance of the subject and story at hand. Rachel Corrie wasn’t protecting the home of some poor innocent palestinian. She was protecting the tunnels used by palestinian terror groups to smuggle explosives to murder women and children in pizza parlors and old men on buses. The bulldozer DID NOT run her over. Much less, twice. She was hit on the head with debris that fell from the bulldozer scoop. Tell me, how does someone get run over TWICE by a freaking bulldozer and live? That’s right, Corrie was still alive when they took her to the hospital. And, no part of her body was crushed. How exactly do you run someone over with bulldozer and not flatten them? She earned the Idotarian award for dueling with large machinery in the name of a repulsive cause-and losing.
She was NO peace activist. She was, however, active on another front. She was a terrorist enabler that had a sympathetic and cozy relationship with known terrorists, whose stated goal is the destruction of the only real democracy in the ME. I have a lovely photo Ms. Corrie. In it, she’s buring a makeshift American flag and screaming like a woman possessed with all the hate only an ardent ‘peace activist’ like Corrie can.
July 15th, 2005 at 7:13 am
Bullshit.
“I ran for an ambulance, she was gasping and her face was covered in blood from a gash cutting her face from lip to cheek. She was showing signs of
brain hemorrhaging. She died in the ambulance a few minutes later of massive internal injuries.”
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2003/18844.htm
“MR. BOUCHER: I don’t know in which of these conversations our policy on demolitions was stated. But I think our policy on demolitions has been stated repeatedly and is well known. We have been very clear that we view demolitions as particularly troubling. They deprive a large number of Palestinians of their ability to peacefully earn a livelihood. They exacerbate the humanitarian situation inside Palestinian areas, undermine trust and confidence and make more difficult the critical challenge of bringing about an end to violence and restoring calm. That has been a well known policy of the United States and I am certain that our Ambassador, if not in those meetings, and our Assistant Secretary, if not in his phone calls, has made this clear to the Israeli Government numerous times.”
http://www.ccmep.org/2003_articles/Palestine/031703_closest_eye_witness_account_on_t.htm
http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/israel_and_occupied_territories/document.do?id=DF899DD539B2344385256CEC007008D5
http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/7/1263
March 24th, 2006 at 2:00 am
Rachel Corrie was at best a useful idiot and at worst a pro-terrorist enabler. She was another leftist American who loved to vacation in another people’s misery.