{"id":212,"date":"2005-12-27T11:11:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T19:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2005-12-27T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T19:11:35","slug":"kofi-annans-childish-tantrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/12\/27\/kofi-annans-childish-tantrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Kofi Annan&#8217;s Childish Tantrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal contributor <strong>James Bone<\/strong> explains why the UN Secretary-General accused him of not being a &#8220;<em>serious journalist.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110007729\">Where Is the Car?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS&#8211;Kofi Annan, U.N. secretary-general and Nobel peace laureate, is normally the meekest of diplomats. He is so accommodating he once described Saddam Hussein as a man &#8220;I can do business with.&#8221; These days he spends a good deal of time on the phone with Syria&#8217;s Bashar al-Assad. Yet he seems to have problem with me.<\/p>\n<p>It was with some amusement that I found myself the target of a decidedly undiplomatic tirade by the U.N. chief at a news conference last week. The usually mild Mr. Annan erupted in an ad hominem attack, calling me &#8220;cheeky&#8221; and belittling me as an &#8220;overgrown schoolboy.&#8221; Although I have covered the U.N. in minute detail for The Times of London since 1988, and have known Mr. Annan for almost all that time, he suggested I was not a &#8220;serious journalist.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110007729\">Where Is the Car?<\/a> at <strong>Opinion Journal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Read why we believe this miscreant diplomat is dangerous to America <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=188\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bone explains why UN Secretary-General accused him of not being a &#8220;serious journalist.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-degenerates","category-international","category-united-nations","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}