Ahmadinejad Superstar

[monk222]

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This is new. I see President Ahmadinejad has actually started a charm offensive. It is not something you would expect from terrorists. I am actually more worried about it. Good PR works in the West. He even makes me think of Al Pacino in Scarface.

I caught some of Ahmadinejad's 60 Minutes interview. I just fell back in my chair with my mouth agape, absorbed by the smiling show. It was the part where he regretfully laments that President Bush should be all about the bombs, and how Bush cannot deal with problems in any other way. Wow, he has really been following the press of the Europeans and the Noam Chomsky Democrats!

I would like to just laugh off the absurdity. But I am afraid that too many in the West and in America may swallow the propagandic show, winning the hearts and minds of the guilt-addled liberal world. Poor Ahmadinejad, a man of peace in a world the Americans and Jews have made.

I understand he has even started a blog. His advisers must have made a misstep - no MySpace!? I wonder what kind of music he listens to. I just bet he prefers the Beatles to Elvis. So European.

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Comments

[antilapsarian.livejournal.com]

That is, indeed, the great absurdist slant on the 21st century so far is that our enemies use our airwaves, our transportation, our technology, to get back at us for the very thing which partly pisses them off in the first place...which is that we have airwaves, transportation, technology, etc.. Beautifully horrible in a way. We made the bed and they have to lay in it, that's the way they see it...but they figure the least they can do is beat us at our own game.

The whole point, sadly true, is that lying PR is lying PR...no different than Rumsfeld getting out there and saying everything is going swimmingly well in Iraq. It's an elaborate dog and pony show meant to cover up the real workings which are nefarious, bloody, and pleasantly the last thing on the public's mind. Americans are no different from, say, the people of Lebanon in that way at least...we'd rather be doing other things while the politicians hack at each other. It really is a small cadre of string-pullers who ruin it for the rest of us.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Americans are no different from, say, the people of Lebanon in that way at least...we'd rather be doing other things while the politicians hack at each other. It really is a small cadre of string-pullers who ruin it for the rest of us.

The common Lebanese people are actually more sympathetic in this respect, because Hezbollah (Iran, Syria) are less accountable to them than our American leaders such as Bush and Rummy are to us. That primary that Senator Lieberman lost is one example of that. Sure, Americans are as subject to PR as much as anyone, but at least other sides can and do play, and majority sentiment does eventually get felt, though I think that may be problemsome in this instance, because I think the majority may be less poised to understand and deal with the kind of international problems we have now and are hence more subject to pleasing-sounding answers that may only worsen the problem.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Super freaky!