dana milbank may think its funny but to say that Bolton wanted to blow up the UN is ridiculous and terrorizing – not to mention completely inaccurate.  responsible reporters shouldn’t joke about bombing the un.  to be accurate, bolton said, “The Secretariat Building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost ten stories today, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”.  bolton was obviously commentating on a bloated bureaucracy and the need for efficiency.  i”ll put dana (don’t let the name fool you , he’s a guy) down for advocating for a waste of u.s. tax dollars and using bomb jokes to be funny. dana…

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My friend Richard Grenell, the longest serving American spokesman in U.N. history, a true environmental activist (he’s the guy we went to the Gulf with), and important public relations person, invited me to sing the National Anthem at a lunch for Mattie Fein. I didn’t know a thing about her but I always learn from Richard, and I love the challenge of painting a picture with that profoundly relevant song. I walked in with my guitar and saw Ambassador John Bolton in the diverse crowd, including a soldier from Iraq and business people from Syria and many other countries. It…

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It sounds as if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has had enough. Her new strong tone on North Korea is a welcome, albeit overdue, shift. The Obama Administration’s North Korea policy for the past 18 months has consisted of public relations ploys of pretending to get tough on the rogue state and a propensity to re-package the hard work of the Bush team and call it something new and improved. Her announcement that the Obama Administration will enforce the existing sanctions on nuclear related materials and luxury goods going in and out of North Korea is yet another example. While…

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the main stream media will try and tell you that tough sanctions on north korea started in 2009 with the obama administration…but they didn’t. the obama team re-packaged the bush team’s work. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/21/north-korean-sanctions-aim-luxury-items/

breitbart.com/Where Has Susan Rice Been? Where Has Susan Rice Been This Past Year? This week marks the one year anniversary of Susan Rice’s confirmation by the United States Senate to represent the American people at the United Nations. Over the past 12 months, the U.S. has faced some serious foreign policy challenges such as Iran’s nuclear ambitions, North Korea’s ongoing nuclear weapons’ tests, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, freezing terrorists’ assets world-wide and now the on-going disaster in Haiti. But while the UN struggles to find common ground on these and other important issues, Susan Rice has chosen to spend several days…

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/24/opinion/main5761543.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

http://newsmax.com/insidecover/grenell_resigns_un/2008/09/17/131871.html U.N. Spokesman Richard Grenell Resigns Wednesday, September 17, 2008 6:14 PM By: Stewart Stogel Richard Grenell, the longtime communications director and de facto press secretary for four U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations, tells Newsmax he will conclude his eight-year U.N. term Sept. 29. Grenell plans to return to his California home to become a senior vice president and communications director at DaVita, a healthcare company based in El Segundo. But Newsmax also has learned that Grenell is on a short list for consideration as the next State Department spokesman if Sen. John McCain is elected president in November….

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http://newsmax.com/kessler/Richard_Grenell_at_un/2008/08/11/119512.html U.S. Spokesman at the U.N. Makes His Mark Monday, August 11, 2008 2:35 PM By: Ronald Kessler In February 2006, both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times ran editorials saying that John Bolton, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, was right to reject sham proposals to reform the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Noting that some of the world’s most abusive regimes hold seats on it, the Times called the commission “disgraceful.” The paper even applauded Bolton’s refusal to go along with a “shameful charade” to make cosmetic changes in the commission. The New York Times…

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/opinion/26sun2.html?scp=1&sq=John+Bolton+%2C+Kofi+Annan%2C+Human+Rights+Council&st=nyt