{"id":2139,"date":"2004-01-14T04:36:04","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T20:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/14\/wall-st-journal-mocks-rachel-corries-death\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:13:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:13:30","slug":"wall-st-journal-mocks-rachel-corries-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/14\/wall-st-journal-mocks-rachel-corries-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall St. Journal mocks Rachel Corrie&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12096,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.distanceeddesign.com\\\/rachel&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240915181023\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.distanceeddesign.com\\\/rachel\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 21:30:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 21:30:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12097,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.opinionjournal.com\\\/best\\\/?id=110004551&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.opinionjournal.com\\\/best\\\/?id=110004551&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12098,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/1\\\/13\\\/221532\\\/072&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20101002005140\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com:80\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/1\\\/13\\\/221532\\\/072&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 21:37:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 21:37:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>On March 16th of last year, Evergreen student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distanceeddesign.com\/rachel\/\" title=\"Rachel Corrie Memorial Website\">Rachel Corrie<\/a> was run over by an Israeli bulldozer and killed while trying to protect a Palestinian home being demolished. Now, right-wing weblog Little Green Footballs has awarded her their &#8220;idiotarian of the year&#8221; award, and the Wall Street Journal has seen fit to include this in a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110004551\" title=\"Best of the Web\">Best of the Web<\/a>&#8221; roundup under the headline &#8220;A Well-Deserved Award&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Little Green Footballs has given out its second annual Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year. This year&#8217;s winner: Rachel Corrie, the terror advocate who died in a bulldozer accident last March. Corrie picked up 28.8% of the vote in the 10-candidate finals, edging out Michael Moore (26.7%), who also finished second (behind Jimmy Carter) in 2002. Moore, who we hear dedicated his most recent &#8220;book&#8221; to Corrie, is the Susan Lucci of idiotarians. As one LGF commenter writes, &#8220;Michael Moore has to be crushed he didn&#8217;t win.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The WSJ&#8217;s wording of the account is especially troubling. From what I&#8217;ve read, Rachel was a peace activist using non-violent means to try to intervene in the conflict in the Gaza Strip &#8212; hardly someone I&#8217;d describe as a &#8220;terror advocate.&#8221; I also see a large gulf between a &#8220;bulldozer accident&#8221; and a woman in a flourescent jacket wielding a bullhorn being run over by a bulldozer, which then drops its blade and backs over her a second time.<\/p>\n<p>No matter which side of the Israel\/Palestine conflict you stand on (an issue which I haven&#8217;t investigated enough to truly have an opinion one way or another), or how you feel about Rachel Corrie&#8217;s goals and methods (something which I have <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/evergreen_stude.html\" title=\"Evergreen Student Killed in Gaza Strip\">my own doubts about<\/a>), to so blatantly and callously mock her death is truly despicable.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2004\/1\/13\/221532\/072\" title=\"Dead activists are funny. And stupid!\">Kos<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right-wing weblog Little Green Footballs has awarded Rachel Corrie their &#8216;idiotarian of the year&#8217; award, and the Wall Street Journal has seen fit to include this in a &#8216;Best of the Web&#8217; roundup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}