Robert Fulford dissects everyone's favorite consistently-wrong anti-American journalist.

He has vast experience and an adoring American audience on the Internet. But it's his moral certitude that seems, in a way, most enviable. He never lacks a strong opinion, and it's always the same: Whatever goes wrong in the Middle East, he blames the Americans and the Israelis.

If an Arab nation commits some outrage, that's because Washington supports Arab dictators. If Palestinians kill, it's because Israel stole their land. He dislikes Yassir Arafat ("corrupt, vain little despot") but believes he's Israel's fault because Israel helped create the Palestinian Authority and brought in Arafat "as a colonial governor" to control his people.

Most journalists are biased, but Fisk paints himself into a particularly narrow corner. He has one subject and only about two opinions, which he expresses with an abundance of sneering pride and a total absence of nuance.

It just gets better from there.

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