Watchdog Claims Liberal Media Wear Blinders Where U.N. Concerned
by Bill Fancher
May 10, 2004
(AgapePress) - United Nations officials are angry about a new book that reportedly exposes scandals and corruption in the international body. The book, titled Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Matters: A True Story From Hell on Earth, was written by a former member and two current members of the U.N. Peacekeeping Administration and is poised to hit the bookstores.The new book details years of decadent parties, allegedly describing drunken, jet-setting U.N. staffers who engage in sex, drugs and booze-fests in various parts of the world. The author also speaks of vicious criminals, pardoned to become part of the international peacekeeping force.
These and other embarrassing revelations come on the heels of the U.N.'s "Food for Oil" scandal, already under investigation. Yet Cliff Kincaid, president of America's Survival, notes an apparent hesitance on the part of the mainstream media to report or probe these scandals.
Kincaid says the new book dealing with the profligate lifestyles of certain U.N. staffers is unlikely to receive much attention from many in the media, and he believes he knows why.
"The United Nations has long been a sacred cow," he explains, "almost untouchable. Many reporters are liberals who believe the term 'United Nations' reflects the actual operation of the entity itself."
And Kincaid, a veteran journalist himself, says the Secretary General of the U.N. has managed to ingratiate himself with lots of liberal media professionals. "Kofi Anan is very personable, is very personable," he notes. "He's a very likeable fellow. He speaks English well. The reporters and producers and anchors up in New York frequently rub elbows with him at social functions. You know, he's part of their milieu."
But what these media members fail to see, Kincaid asserts, is that the United Nations is replete with corruption and does more harm than good in many of the nations where it is involved. And even though former insiders of that world organization are seeking to expose it, he fears many will choose to ignore the truth.
The president of America's Survival says most of the media wear blinders and only look at the U.N.'s idealistic goals, all the while remaining oblivious to the egregious corruption and mismanagement that goes on within the international body.
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Matters (Miramax, 2004), written by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, and Andrew Thomson, has been described by one reviewer as "a first-of-its-kind confession of love, friendship, and betrayal of ideals."
