The Media Research Center was saddened to learn on Friday of the passing of the Honorable Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Ambassador to the United Nations for the Reagan administration and a leading conservative author and thinker. (Earlier NewsBusters item with Reuters story.) She had been serving as a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, which has a posted biography of her many accomplishments. The Washington Post's obituary. We will fondly remember her for taking part in our 2004 DisHonors Awards where, in good-humor, she accepted, on behalf of ABC's Diane Sawyer and Dan Harris, the “Baghdad Bob Award for Parroting Enemy Propaganda.”
Video (4:20): You can enjoy Real video or MP3 audio of her comments on March 18, 2004 in which she related her experiences in Geneva at the UN's Human Rights Commission meetings on Iraq where she lobbied the hotel to add the Fox News Channel so her delegation wouldn't have to choose between CNN and the BBC.
