It is nice that the president honored critically wounded Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall for his brave reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Only it was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who did the honoring, not President Biden.
It is simply too dangerous. Biden might have finished himself some good.
Hall, 41, is the brave Fox reporter who returned to Ukraine final week after recovering from wounds that just about took his life upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine 20 months in the past.
Hall was critically injured when his automobile got here below a Russian missile assault in an deserted village exterior of Kyiv.
Hall’s Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and native Fox assistant Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, 24, had been killed together with two Ukrainian troopers.
Hall, stranded by the aspect of the street after he escaped from his burning automobile, was rescued by Ukrainian troopers who got here throughout him after the assault.
After 30 surgical procedures Hall survived however misplaced his proper leg beneath the knee, his left foot, the usage of his left hand and the sight in his left eye.
But the wonderful British-born journalist refused to be damaged.
Upon his return to Kyiv final weekend, Hall stated, “One of the issues that stunned me most is that I used to be slightly bit intimidated once I was heading that method.
“But I really acquired off that practice in Kyiv and I felt much more robust than I had earlier than as a result of I believe it jogged my memory which you can undergo completely something, you could be pushed down and dangerous issues can occur, however collectively—and we are able to bear in mind this on Thanksgiving—collectively, you’ll be able to decide your self up, you are able to do something you need once more.
“There should be no limits to what you can do.”
Shortly after making these remarks -which sounded extra presidential than something Joe Biden can put collectively– Hall met with Zelenskyy who awarded him the nation’s Order of Merit.
Which was effective. If anybody deserved official recognition it was Hall. His fearlessness and devotion to masking the invasion is commendable.
And honoring Hall for it was one thing that Joe Biden ought to have finished.
While it’s true that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin performed key roles in getting Hall safely in a foreign country and getting him the medical consideration he badly wanted, Biden had little, if something, to say about Hall’s expertise. Nor did he invite him to the White House after Hall recovered from his accidents.
Perhaps Biden’s lack of curiosity stems from the contempt he holds for Fox News for its conservative bent. He received’t even seem on Fox, despite the fact that Fox is the main cable tv information community within the nation.
Biden, who’s confused about plenty of issues, most likely confuses Fox’s information operation with its conservative panel packages and right-wing commentators who continually criticize him. So, he takes it out on Fox reporters.
How else does one account for Biden brazenly calling Fox’s revered and balanced White House Correspondent Peter Doocy “a stupid son of a bitch” after Doocy requested him a query about inflation?
It might come as information to Biden, however Fox News has a few of the finest and most goal younger reporters round, reporters who should not have an agenda however report what they cowl truthfully.
They embrace Hall, 41, White House Correspondent Doocy, 36, National Correspondent Bill Melugin, 32, whose immigration protection on the southern border has been complete, fearless and honest, Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst, 30, in Israel and others.
I say that as a result of having been a newspaperman longer than any of them have been alive and have seen plenty of reporters come and go.
Fox News is fortunate to have this group together with Bret Baier who’s nightly 6 p.m. Special Report is essentially the most complete, balanced and goal information program on tv, cable or in any other case.
It has been exhausting occasions for the general public for the reason that media went woke and wrecked its credibility after progressives took management of the tv networks, the nationwide newspapers, and the Associated Press. Truth turned the primary casualty.
It is why the New York Times and the Washington Post can award themselves Pulitzer Prizes for phony Trump/Russian collusion tales they knew weren’t true.
Next time they need to give a Pulitzer to Ben Hall. But possibly he received’t need it.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”