Speaking to a meeting of “progressive” transnationalists connected with billionaire moonbat George Soros, the United Nations’ second in command Mark Malloch Brown said the United States is undermining the UN with that hegemonic tool of neocolonialist oppression—criticism: Official of U.N. Says Americans Undermine It With Criticism.

UNITED NATIONS, June 6 — Secretary General Kofi Annan’s deputy assailed the United States on Tuesday for withholding support from the United Nations, encouraging its harshest detractors and undermining an institution that he said Washington needed more than it would admit.

“The prevailing practice of seeking to use the U.N. almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable,” said the deputy, Mark Malloch Brown. “You will lose the U.N. one way or another.”

In a highly unusual instance of a United Nations official singling out an individual country for criticism, Mr. Malloch Brown said that although the United States was constructively engaged with the United Nations in many areas, the American public was shielded from knowledge of that by Washington’s tolerance of what he called “too much unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping.”

“Much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News,” he said.

Richard A. Grenell, the spokesman for John R. Bolton, the United States ambassador, said Mr. Bolton had not had time to read the speech to react to it fully on Tuesday evening. “Mr. Malloch Brown did not extend to us the courtesy of a copy of the speech,” Mr. Grenell said. “We need to read it and will certainly have to respond.”

Mr. Malloch Brown is a Briton who became deputy secretary general in March and will leave office when Mr. Annan’s term ends on Dec. 31. He made his remarks in a lunch speech at a Midtown hotel to a conference on global leadership co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation.

UN Ambassador John Bolton responds: Bolton rebukes Annan deputy for criticizing US role at UN.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador John Bolton strongly rebuked remarks by a senior UN official criticizing Washington’s stance on key UN issues, demanding that they be repudiated to avoid doing serious damage to the world body. …

In a furious reaction, Bolton called the speech by UN chief Kofi Annnan’s deputy a “very grave mistake.”

“We are in the process of an enormous effort to achieve substantial reform at the United Nations,” he said. “To have the deputy secretary general criticize the United States in such a manner can only do great harm to the United nations.

”Even though the target of the speech was the United States, the victim, I fear, will be the United Nations,“ he added. ”Even worse was the condescending and patronizing tone about the American people. This was a criticism of the American people not the American government by an international civil servant.“

The US envoy to the UN said the only way ”to mitigate the damage to the United Nations“ was for Annan to ”personally and publicly repudiate this speech at the earliest possible opportunity.“

”Otherwise I fear the consequences not just for the reform effort but for the organization,” he added.