USA Bars Robert Fisk From Entering Country

[Waya]

U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance in the Lannan Foundation’s readings-and-conversations series Wednesday night.

According to Christie Mazuera Davis, a Lannan program officer, Fisk was told that his papers were not in order.

Davis made last-minute arrangements Wednesday for Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica Radio’s daily news show, Democracy Now!, to interview Fisk via satellite from a television station in Toronto. He appeared on a large screen onstage at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.

The controversial British journalist, who is based in Beirut, filed many eyewitness reports on the U.S. invasion of Iraq and criticized Western reporters for “hotel journalism ,” a phrase he coined to describe correspondents who covered the war from heavily fortified hotel suites and offices.

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/32812.html

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. This ranks right up with barring Canadian nature writer

Farley Mowatt from the States during the Reagan administration.

(He had made an offhanded remark about shooting down U.S. military planes with his hunting rifle, which apparently made him "dangerous" by the thin-skinned standards of the Reaganites.)

[blue sky at night]

2. they hate us........

for our freedoms...

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. TPTB don't like truth tellers

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Come on now, they did let in Galloway.

It's a bit much to think they'd allow two subversive revolutionaries to gain entry into the country at the same time. That would mean there'd be two rabble rousers running around stirring up the peasantry, fomenting revolution and causing discomfort to the nobility and landed gentry. :)

[librechik]

5. I wonder if it has anything to do with Shrub

going to Colorado at the same time as Fisk.

These people make so many mistakes that they subsequently get paranoid about the smallest things.None of them seem to have a clue about the big picture.

[Waya]

6. Maybe Glorious George was afraid....

...to run into Fisk who just might ask some mighty uncomfy questions?