What's wrong with this picture? (Morgenbladet 9-15 Nov.)

I am actually not that much of a newspaper reader. I do more headlines that actual articles. I do however subscribe to a weekly here in Norway, Morgenbladet. It is this newspaper that has been among the biggest inspirations for this blog, as hopefully I will comment on some of the stuff that I read there which I find thought provoking.

So here is one of the first of many.

On page two of the newspaper there is always an interview with someone who has been in the headlines. This week's interview is with Géza Jeszensky, the Hungarian ambassador to Norway. He is a historian and seems to have been involved in the organisation of conference, hosted by the Norwegian Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Regligious Minorities. He was then asked by the Centre to not attend the conference in question because of a sentence in a book he wrote a few years ago.

He is quite annoyed that he was not even asked to explain himself for the sentence and admits that he would probably have phrased it otherwise today.

The whopper - apparently he thinks that the source for the controversial sentence, was wikipedia.

Is it just me, or is that just a tad ironic?