UN Deputy Moron Attacks Middle America

You have to hand it to the UN - they really know how to ingratiate themselves with the American people. Today Kofi "Oil for Food" Annan's deputy really stepped in it:

UNITED NATIONS, June 6 — Secretary General Kofi Annan’s deputy assailed the United States on Tuesday for withholding support from the United Nations, encouraging its harshest detractors and undermining an institution that he said Washington needed more than it would admit.

“The prevailing practice of seeking to use the U.N. almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable,” said the deputy, Mark Malloch Brown. “You will lose the U.N. one way or another.”

In a highly unusual instance of a United Nations official singling out an individual country for criticism, Mr. Malloch Brown said that although the United States was constructively engaged with the United Nations in many areas, the American public was shielded from knowledge of that by Washington’s tolerance of what he called “too much unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping.”

“Much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News,” he said.

Apparently when our country's free press is critical of the UN, it's the responsibility of the US government to jump in, defend the UN, and punish the critics. Our guy in the UN, John Bolton, vehemently disagreed:

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador John Bolton strongly rebuked remarks by a senior UN official criticizing Washington’s stance on key UN issues, demanding that they be repudiated to avoid doing serious damage to the world body. ...

In a furious reaction, Bolton called the speech by UN chief Kofi Annnan’s deputy a “very grave mistake.”

“We are in the process of an enormous effort to achieve substantial reform at the United Nations,” he said. “To have the deputy secretary general criticize the United States in such a manner can only do great harm to the United nations.

”Even though the target of the speech was the United States, the victim, I fear, will be the United Nations,“ he added. ”Even worse was the condescending and patronizing tone about the American people. This was a criticism of the American people not the American government by an international civil servant.“

The US envoy to the UN said the only way ”to mitigate the damage to the United Nations“ was for Annan to ”personally and publicly repudiate this speech at the earliest possible opportunity.“

”Otherwise I fear the consequences not just for the reform effort but for the organization," he added.

Kofi Annan's spokeshole refused to back down and said Annan stood behind his deputy's words. Okay then, what to do? Very simple - introduce a bill in Congress to immediately cut the UN's funding in half (currently about $3 Billion dollars a year in taxpayer's money). Let's see if that gets their attention.

Another possible idea is getting the UN and their ambassadors better aquainted with middle America so we won't have these little misunderstandings. Let's move the UN headquarters to Topeka. I'm sure there's plenty of nice restaurants in that Kansas town to meet the gourmet needs of the various diplomats.