Good old Robert Fisk, the "journalist" (polemicist?) who inspired the contemptuous verb "fisking" from his fellow journalists in Afghanistan after he got the crap beaten out of him by some locals and filed a story saying that he not only didn't mind and completely understood the beating, but taking into account the numerous crimes of the western world against the noble poor over the years, he'd have beaten the crap out of him too, if given the chance.

I place about as much weight on Fisk's "reporting" as Kirk would on stories in the Washington Times, or either one of us would on stories in the Weekly World News.