US Undermines the UN by Trying to Help Tsunami Victims

Have you ever read something so astronomically foolish, so unspeakably ridiculous, that as badly as you wanted to fisk it, you just knew you'd run out of adjectives before the second sentence?

Here's a good example of that kind of article, via Drudge (so I assume everyone in the world has read it anyway).

Let me try to clarify what I'm dealing with, here.

"But former International Development Secretary Clare Short said that role should be left to the UN.
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"'It is the only body that has the moral authority. But it can only do it well if it is backed up by the authority of the great powers.'"

Seriously, what can you say about that? Other than putting on caps lock and just using the f-word over and over again, is there any language at all that can highlight, better than simply quoting Clare Short, that Clare Short is a ... again, I'm stymied. I don't even know how to finish that sentence without doing violence to the English language.

Moral authority? MORAL AUTHORITY? Even momentarily getting past the fact that disaster relief is about efficiency, not about moral authority, does she just not pay attention to anything that happens in the UN?

Ah, to have the power of the truly snappy comeback. Consider the story of a female NPR reporter interviewing a Marine Lieutenant about Scouts on a camping trip. When she found out the boys were going to be learning shooting, she responded, aghast, "you're equipping them to become violent killers!" To which the Lieutenant responded, "Well, ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you aren't one, are you?"

Zing! Even if, in fact, that story is apparently not true.

Let's try to apply it to the situation at hand:

"'It is the only body that has the moral authority. But it can only do it well if it is backed up by the authority of the great powers.' Asked for comment, President Bush noted that Ms. Short is a prostitute."

See, it totally loses its punch.