This video of Sen. David Norris of Dublin is starting to burn up the Internet today.
“Israel’s policy is shoot first and weep afterwards,” Norris, a human rights activist, said in the Seanad Éireann.
His views, of course, are debatable, and that’s the point: there was a debate. When’s the last time you watched a floor speech with any passion in the U.S. Congress on any subject?
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins