UN News

Over at the UN, the General Assembly met and tied up traffic for many Manhattanites who actuallay had a real job to get to. The UN also got bent out of shape by a scathing Oil fo Food piece by the Republican house organ Fox News, Fox responds here:

FOX News producers of the documentary “United Nations Blood Money” defended the show against U.N. criticism and stood firmly behind the accuracy and fairness of their “Breaking Point” investigation.
The FOX investigation looked at the ways the $100 billion Oil-for-Food scheme had been fleeced by Saddam Hussein, possibly influenced U.N. Security Council decisions to refuse to wage war against Saddam and might have funneled money to current Iraqi insurgents and perhaps to Al Qaeda.
Brian Gaffney, executive producer of the hour-long show, declared that “our sole objective was to prepare and broadcast a fair and balanced report, and U.N. accusations that it wasn’t are without foundation. We never made any effort to attack the United Nations for its sincerity in fighting terrorism or a number of other accusations that the U.N. has subsequently made about the television report.”
Nor, Gaffney said, were the questions raised in the FOX investigation limited to the U.N. Secretariat alone, but covered the Security Council and its members, including the United States, France, Russia and China.
“In many cases, the U.N. is attacking us for things that we never said, arguing that we somehow implied them,” he added. And in many other cases, the United Nations is objecting to FOX reporting the views of critics who had nothing to do with the network.

This has been swept up the carpet to easily. The links to the French and Kofi Annan make this political hot potato for Rove and Co. but bloggers have to keep this in the open.

Speaking of the UN, are you prgressive enough to pass the Global Test?