My conversation with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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You guys are all out of our minds. All Rose did in this interview was be a kind of televisual fluffer for Ahmadinejad's propaganda purposes. He talks about nations making decisions for themselves; yet, he supports terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah that have turned Beirut, which was once known as the Paris of the Middle East, into a glorified bomb crater and Iran itself has oppressed non-Muslim minorities such as the Bahais and jailed political dissidents while its elections aren't exactly the paragon of transparency.

Rose made this megalomaniac look reasonable when, in fact, progressives in Iran are being harrassed, beaten and imprisoned for daring to go against the opressive theocracy there. Yes, the U.S. has blown it in its relations with Iran, installing the Shah of Iran, or as I call him, G.W. Bush on crack, in an illegal coup that overturned a democratically elected government lead by Mossadegh, which would eventually set the stage for the Islamic revolution.

This isn't a one or the other proposition. Both the Republicans and the current Iranian leaders are imperialists who loathe human rights. And Rose was almost grateful in being allowed to be the conduit for Iranian propaganda just as Tim Russert was always willing to echo neocon cant week after week. Actually, Rose may be closer to Larry King than Russert, he is that featherweight. This was just disgusting.

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Note: Let's see if this stays up or gets pulled later. I sliced Charlie up to a tender turn here and it still got through. So either Rose has more balls than I believed he does (he did, though, censor one of my earlier posts) or this was left up to a moderator who is willing to let even non-back slapping responses be heard.