Mr. Brown's Stupid Americans

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Until this week, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, a Briton, was best known as a confidante of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan who rents his Westchester home from billionaire buddy George Soros at a price only slightly lower than his U.N. salary. But from this week forward, he will be known as the U.N. bureaucrat who tried to blow up relations with the United States by scorning "Middle America." He told us, in so many words, that we are a bunch of dumb rubes who need to be corralled by government.

"[M]uch of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News," Mr. Brown said Tuesday in a conference sponsored by two liberal think tanks. "The U.N.'s role is, in effect, a secret in Middle America" yes, he used the words "Middle America" whose media engages in "too much unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping."

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Mr. Brown's Stupid Americans

His antidote? Not U.N. reform, of course not an end to the type of mismanagement which caus...

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