Years ago I knew a pretentious person whom his colleagues called Hinksley Pinksley behind his back. I thought of him when I first read about a BBC correspondent with the colorful name of Humphrey Hawksley. Hawksley recently brought the scorn of the world down on his employer when he equated scumbag terrorist Imad Mughniyeh with former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, calling both “great national leaders.”
BBC, no stranger to worldwide scorn, has since apologized. Even a former Associated Press employee was outraged, and that’s saying something.
Here’s Hawksley’s Web page. Check it out and see if it doesn’t remind you of Ted Baxter’s little shrine to himself in his office at WJM on the Mary Tyler Moore show.
