Mark Malloch Brown, a Briton who serves as Kofi Annan's deputy at the U.N., lashed out at the United States in a move even the New York Times called "highly unusual".

Mark Malloch Brown, a Briton who serves as Kofi Annan's deputy at the U.N., lashed out at the United States in a move even the New York Times called "highly unusual." Malloch Brown attacked the Bush administration's policy of linking dues payment to management reforms at the U.N., as well as its perceived tolerance for critics of Turtle Bay (here he singled out Rush Limbaugh and Fox News). But a little over a year ago, when asked whether he thought Fox News was waging a political campaign against the U.N., Malloch Brown replied, "What Fox News and many others have said, which was that there were failings in [the Oil for Food] program, is correct." We watch the U.N. closely--but, unlike Mr. Malloch Brown, we somehow overlooked the moment when it attained infallibility.