"for he might be a god in disguise."

As Baucus & Philemon were visited by Jove & Mercury, dressed as beggars.

Have you noticed that no railer and false accuser ever comes back to respond to us who provide factual proof that A. never said the things he is accused of?

Dead silence.

What frightens me in this ugly and somewhat shameful episode is the effortless methods with which people can be made be so hateful. I'm referring not to the Iranians but to the Americans. Where does this hatred and anger come from? These folks can't all have family in Iran. All those hysterical sign wavers in front of the UN -- are they burning the midnight laptop battery educating themselves about the middle east? I doubt it.

No, Iran wasn't on anybodies radar until Bush proclaimed them a member of the axis of evil. Since then, it has suited the administration's agenda to feed the press with arguments positioning Iran as the threat-to-worldpeace- elect.

Now, I'm not trying to defend Iran. It's the underlying mechanism that I'm interested in: The gov't tells the press who we're going to hate. The press dutifully and uncritically disseminates the information, adding some juicy visuals and out-of-context sound bites to pump up the drama, and presto -- the masses are marching.

Why isn't anyone asking questions like these? --
Is iran any more oppressive to women or gays than Saudi Arabia?
Is Iran a greater threat to world peace than Pakistan?
Is it any more fanatical in the pursuit of its interests than Israel?

So why are these countries our allies, and Iran a sworn enemy?

Where are the nation's critics? Are we really this helpless as a nation against this mechinery of propaganda?

Lee Bollinger said exactly the right thing to the Weasel Skank Puke Monkey Ahmadinejad

I have been thinking of the President of Iran's speech, and the moment when he took the bull by the horns and decried the lack of hospitality, and the anti-intellectual attack on the speaker, as well as the attack on the audience, for not letting them make up their own good minds.

It was brilliant.

But what I grasped instantly when Ahmadinejad's reminder of what the ancient Greeks called the highest virtue, Hospitality. The Greeks would slaughter an ox, and lay out the best of fruits and breads for a stranger come to town, for he might be a god in disguise.

And I think, in some funny way, that the self-proscribed "teacher" first, and politician second, may have been some form of a saint. It was with Christ-like common sense, he asked for peace and connection, and to follow the laws of the land. He did not beg to stop the US from bombing back to the stoneage his country, nor to stop the Neandrathal Cheney, Bush, Israel, Neocons, and the Devilworshipping Pentagon and the accompanying war lobbyists, and tentfollowing whores of war. Ahmadinejad's tack was to say "We are a good people, and so are you, remember? We must follow paths of peace, or we will be heathens doomed to hell on earth. The things of the spirit, and truth, like science are what are true and good. Let us be brothers and sisters."

He even quoted the Old Testament stories, in his sermon on the mount.

Conservatives have conveniently forgotten that Christian fundamentalists before 9/11 in this country were trying to make common cause with equally intolerant Muslims, much as Ahmadinejad does when he points out the reasons for unity between monotheists and their duty to rule the world. They even invented a snappy catch-phrase - people of the Abramamic tradition. They were beating the drums for war with China at the time, remember?, but the terrorists changed those plans and their little unifying catch-phrase was immediately scrapped.

he exhibits "all the signs of a petty, cruel dictator."

And you, Mr. Bollinger, exhibit all the signs of having a bad barber.

CBS"s Scott Pelley acquitted himself just as badly as Bollinger when he interviewed Ahmadinejad Sept. 20 in Tehran. Ahmadinejad compared Pelley to a CIA investigator and calmly reminded him, "This is not Guantanamo Bay. This is not a Baghdad prison. This is not a secret prison in Europe. This is not Abu-Ghraib. This is Iran. I am the president of this country."

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml

Click on "President Ahmadinejad."
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One think can be said of Iran's president. He was not afraid to stand in front of a group of ordinary Americans and answer their questions. America's president hasn't done that!

I confront a hate monger and then have the far left jump on me.The far left is sterile and irrelevant and I guess their love of hate mongers is,in part,why.Of course,the far right has more than their share of hate mongers that they defend,also.Hate mongers cause wars so if you're going to defend them then don't claim to be anti war because you aren't.You cause wars.

Hmmmm. Alot of bitterness I see towards your President Bush. Not surprising, coming from blinded fear mongers of the far left. Tell me, my lil' tree hugger friends, why not move to Tehran and increase the gay population by 1000000%? Ahmehdinejad and Pinkos make odd bedfellows, don't you think?

The president of Colombia is making the US appear crude and ignorant. Ahmedinejad is the leader of a nation and his guest.
My guess is that his insultng behavior is sop for AIPAC who are threatening economic reprisals.
Cruel dictators have never bothered the US before. Why we even have one ourselves. Who else would murder a million innocent people and go looking for more but a cruel dictator?
Who else would lock people up without due process and take away our civil rights?

Articles like this never fail to move me to laughter. Anything even remotely involving Jews or Israel will draw out the anti-Semites like Boobaloo and BuyRubles and their neo-Nazi/KKK racist ilk; on the other hand, it puts the wanna-be leftists in a bind because they WANT to support Ahmadinejad in his anti-Israel rhetoric, yet he is part of a regime that's hateful to gays and women. Articles like these are a brilliant litmus test to draw out the Jew-bashers of all stripes.

Bollinger gave Ahmanutjob exactly what he deserves. It was great to see the little tyrant gringe as Bollinger's comments were translated and when everyone laughed at his Craig-esgue comment about gays.

THAT is why it is a GOOD thing to have 'nutjob' face the American people - to hear what he won't let his own people ever say.

Someone has the e-mail for mr. shit Bollinger?

Shame on the Columbia Prez talking aboutBush and Cheney that way!!!!