# Is Robert Fisk all he's cracked up to be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 26, 2011, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-robert-fisk-all-hes-cracked-up-to-be/569039 "2011-01-26T11:56:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-robert-fisk-all-hes-cracked-up-to-be/569039/61 "2011-01-27T19:32:40Z")
> [@newcomer](#): > > Now, come back and whine some more. I’m tired of asking you to cool it with this stuff. This is a formal warning: if you’re posting in this forum, do it without the hostility (and the accusations of lying and insults I already told you about). ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-robert-fisk-all-hes-cracked-up-to-be/569039/62 "2011-01-27T19:34:02Z")
> [@newcomer](#): > > Immature conduct It seems that, so far, all you have is innuendo. I’ve already cited how the actual findings (which you’re quick to trumpet when you think they may be of use, but ignore when they’re not), which were that the “dancing Israelis” had absolutely nothing, at all, to do with 9/11. Yet again, what exactly is your argument, and what logic are you using to support it? This is hardly an unreasonable set of requests. Do you have anything, at all? ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-robert-fisk-all-hes-cracked-up-to-be/569039/63 "2011-01-27T19:46:30Z")
> [@newcomer](#): > > I’ll answer this as soon as you explain to me surviving passports. I have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m merely asking if you think the Israelis were behind 9/11. So, do you? ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-robert-fisk-all-hes-cracked-up-to-be/569039/64 "2011-01-27T19:57:45Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > I have no idea what you’re talking about. [It’s a standard question in the quiver of those who are Just Asking Questions.](http://www.911myths.com/html/passport_recovered.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-robert-fisk-all-hes-cracked-up-to-be/569039/65 "2011-01-27T23:23:07Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > What is a “my Uncle Napoleon complex” ??? I was making a joke. It’s a reference to a very popular novel in Iran called “my Uncle Napoleon”. Amongst other thing the Uncle Napoleon was incredibly paranoid about the British. One of the themes of the novel was how paranoid many Iranians were about Britain and how they saw the British behind every bad thing that happened to them. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-robert-fisk-all-hes-cracked-up-to-be/569039/66 "2011-01-28T14:24:18Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > I have met Robert Fisk and think he is one of the best journalists of our time. He writes as he sees things from Beirut in the heart of the region… not some desk in Washington. He is a highly respected and courageous British war reporter and journalist working for a high quality broadsheet and has more knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs than the entire NYT Foreign Affairs desk. That he does not see the world through the eyes of the US Right or Israel is neither here nor there. He has written several great histories of the region also. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-robert-fisk-all-hes-cracked-up-to-be/569039/67 "2011-01-28T23:31:26Z")
> [@tagos](#): > > He is a highly respected and courageous British war reporter and journalist working for a high quality broadsheet and has more knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs than the entire NYT Foreign Affairs desk. > > That he does not see the world through the eyes of the US Right or Israel is neither here nor there. > > He has written several great histories of the region also. So then you think it’s wrong to hold the fact that he is a truther against him? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-robert-fisk-all-hes-cracked-up-to-be/569039.md?page=3)