Angry. Dissapointed. Sad. Like you said, I don't understand why a network would let someone like that have a show. This isn't "hard hitting" or "controversial", it's just bloody stupidity. Ah well.

There are a lot of good Fox journalists, and oftentimes the network does live up to being fair and balanced. But there are some lousy, biased journalists, too, whose behaviour deserves to be highlighted. I will not attack Mr Gibson personally but I say his comments fall somewhere between the two groups.
   His statements are narrow-minded at best: does he not remember the Métro terrorist attacks of the 1980s? I still remember the blurry images of broken corpses in Paris Match. France was dealing with terrorism at a time when the United States thought herself impregnable; if Mr Gibson would like to get his jollies of ‘delight’, then reading some old magazines or watching some ’80s news footage would do the trick. Paris was on the equivalent of an “orange alert”.
   Sure there may be recent disagreements, but I prefer to think of the longer and nobler tradition of liberty that the US and France share.
   A word of advice to conservative journalists: it would do the US administration more favours if one were more desirous of highlighting liberty than terrorism; of highlighting internationalism than xenophobia.

Thanks for addressing the issue.

There's no doubt in my mind that American, English and French are all on the same page on this. I will remember the wrods of Colombani on the day after 9/11 : "we are all american".
I was so with him, and I still think the same way as well as for Londoners who suffer from this last terrorist bombings. As well for any people under such attacks. Those terrorists ought to be tracked down.

But there's this faction of neocon in the US that we have to be aware of. They are undermining the collaboration between all the countries to fight terrorism under cover. Because this is how it should be fought, under cover.

The worst thing is that this man doesn't deserve that much coverage, I hope English and French won't think less of American because of such a lousy man. Sadly, I'm afraid is not alone with this kind of thinking, right now, in the US : a lot of american blogs are saying the same things all day long.

I believe, in the interests of being “fair and balanced”, Mr Gibson wrote his piece before the London bombings. It does not mean to say the criticisms are invalid (I stand by mine), but this should be borne in mind.

.. true Jack and I hadn't realised that when I first posted.

And the next day, Gibson wrote"The bombings in London: This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics" So I stand by my response.

Colin Morley, whose empowerment web site you link to in your Blogroll, was killed by the bomb at Edgware Road. He would not have wished the bomb to have gone off in Paris, or even Chicago, and killed some other poor bastard.

Keith: It's shocking news about Colin. I never met him but I intended to and we had swapped various emails. It is awful that a man so committed to creating peaceful change should be killed this way.

Like Johnnie, I exchanged emails with Colin: a thoughtful, great man. When I saw the bomber’s face on telly I couldn’t help but get upset. Then I thought: if Colin were in my shoes, he probably wouldn’t. He’d try to find a solution through raising consciousness. A loss to marketing and branding.