Roger & Me (and the United Nations), Part Deux

A wonderful quality of stupid people (from a blogger's perspective) is their inability to shut up when they've already lost the argument.

The folks at UN Dispatch come back for more abuse as they attempt to save face for their disastrous attempt to go after blogger Roger L. Simon for his attention to the UN Oil-for-Food Scandal.

The John Kerry fanboys write:

Not surprisingly, our previous post about Roger L. Simon's hyper-focus on the Oil-for-Food controversy elicited a strong response from the UN's blog critics.

And not unexpectedly, the responses were largely dismissive, derisive, and betrayed a shallow reading of the original post.

One is forced to remind UN Dispatch that their original post was dismissive (of the gravity of the Oil-for-Food scandal), derisive (of Roger and his choice of subject matter), and betrayed a number of shallow spots at UN Dispatch, including an understanding of the magnitude of the Oil-For-Food Scandal and its newsworthiness, and understanding of the way the news cycle works, and a general misunderstanding of the workings of the blogosphere.

Simon and literally hundreds of other bloggers and members of the international news media are on the Oil-For-Food scandal because it is perhaps the greatest example of international organized crime in the history of the world. Period.

This crime spans the world, potentially breaches thousands of laws in dozens of countries, and trades billions of dollars for power, at the expense of who-knows-how-many thousands dead.

20% of his time is too much? I'd argue the rest of us aren't paying enough attention to the scandal.

The authors then go on to condemn this blog among others:

Finally, an unfortunate reaction from some bloggers is their willingness to simply shrug off the examples of UN-related issues listed in the original post. It's clear that many of these bloggers have become accustomed to knee-jerk attacks and are unwilling (or unable) to engage in a reasoned debate.

Want a reasoned debate? Name the topic, and fire the opening salvo. I'm waiting.

Notice that UN Dispatch does not attempt to debunk any of the comments made by any of the bloggers they disagree with, Confederate Yankee included. Apparently, readers of UN Dispatch are supposed to simply believe them and disagree with us, simply because they...

Well, they don't exactly say why we should see things their way (perhaps they have a plan?). We just should, you know?

UN Dispatch ends this sad post with:

For the record, we'll re-post the issues we think warrant attention and let readers decide:

Newsflash: They already did.

Once again, the UN turns a blind eye to things they would rather not see.

Update: I've said it before, and I'll say it again.