Every once in a while there comes a diplomatic moment to remember, and New Yorkers who want to share one can go up on youtube.com and watch the representative in Geneva of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, in a March 23 speech before the 4th session of the Human Rights Council. In the adjacent columns, we print the full text of his remarks, lamenting the loss of the dream of Eleanor Roosevelt and other architects of the human rights movement within the United Nations system. Mr. Neuer offers the substance. But it's worth watching the full clip (it's only a few minutes long) to catch the scandalous behavior of the president of the council, as he — for what may be the only time in its history — refuses to thank a speaker for his intervention and declares he will ban Mr. Neuer, or any other critic of the commission, if he says anything similar again....'I Will Not Express Thanks,' Editorial, The New York Sun, 3/30/2007
The nicest moments in a great drama are often when a character does something without thinking that completely exposes his hypocrisy. Sometimes you don't have to go to the theater, as when the current President of the UN Commission on Human Rights made an ass out of himself after being told the truth about his organization by a speaker. Ambassador John Bolton would have slammed this idiot. Unfortunately, Democrats in the Senate don't want John Bolton. Perhaps they'd prefer to have Winnie the Pooh in the UN. Or here's a suggestion for Senator Clinton, should she achieve higher office: the corpse of Andy Warhol would make a fine UN Ambassador -- representative of the best of current Democrat ideas.
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