September 21, 2006
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Liberals Love Cool Ahmadinejad:
I keep talking about this with people in real life, but it deserves a blog mention as well -- Mahmoun Ahmadinejad has a pretty sweet hipster style. It all starts with a beard not unlike the one I and many of my twentysomething male friends sport. But it goes deeper. The man went without a tie to address the UN General Assembly. And I was in a bar where the TV was showing his interview with Anderson Cooper (it's DC, these things happen) and while there was no sound, he certainly looked witty and charming. There was also this clip of him walking down some hallway shooting the shit with Kofi Annan. It's like diplomacy! Bush should try it. One gets the sense that he's getting his stody red tie-wearing ass kicked this session by sundry third world goons and it's really not a proud moment for the United States
I left the following response in his comments:
Matt,There are plenty of fools shuffling down the streets of New York with scruffy beard thinking they know the will of God, it's just that most of them are either homeless or tenured, and none are worth the fawning adoration you bestow on a man that denies the holocaust while advocating its return.
We want to stop him from commiting genocide. They look to him for fashion tips.
Security moms, please take note.
Good response to matt. I sure hope that he has more upstairs than what he showed on that post.
Posted by: Jack at September 21, 2006 01:43 PMYou know, if you were something other than a partisan troll, you would have been honest enough to notice the bit towards the end where Matt uses the phrase "third world goon". You might also have noticed that Matt wasn't exactly producing a policy initiative here, but rather noting a difference in dress styles between political players in a pretty light, slightly humorous post.
But hey, any opportunity to take a cheap shot, right?
Posted by: fishbane at September 21, 2006 05:56 PMCome on, everyone knows that Hamid Karzai is the standard by which all pimp leaders from that part of the world are measured. Mahmoun doesn't even wear a cape. The only thing I can think of when I see him is, "...man that guy looks like Balki."
You'd think that someone who lived in DC would understand that politicians are charming individuals.
ps: Mahmoun [sic]
Posted by: paully at September 21, 2006 06:13 PMfishy,
Troll? Did you just call CY a troll at his own site? maybe you should figure out what the word means....LOL
Posted by: Specter at September 21, 2006 08:16 PMSpecter, what he said. Haw, ha-haw, ha-haw, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Hey fishbane, get a clue. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll for starters.
Posted by: Redhand at September 21, 2006 08:41 PMSpecter and Fishbane: CY left a comment at Yglesias' site. Not that one should have to explain this. Morons.
Posted by: McLusky at September 21, 2006 08:52 PMLooking beyond your boneheaded over-reaction to Yglesias' post -- and without looking it up on Wikipedia -- what precisely do you mean by "genocide," and how do you propose that "we" going to prevent such genocide from taking place? I'm genuinely curious to see if your incantations about "genocide" are as sloppy and ahistorical as the incantations about "Islamofascism" that seem to dominate certain quarters of the internets these days.
Posted by: d at September 21, 2006 09:09 PMOh, and you can absolutely be a troll on your own site. That's merely the fourth "Domination" category of trolling. There's the once-off trolls, the tactical trolls (one guy trolling the same place over and over,) the strategic trolls (a group of people doing the same,) and the domination trolls (he runs the place.)
Posted by: perianwyr at September 22, 2006 09:00 AMI sure hope that he has more upstairs than what he showed on that post.
I've been reading Matt for ~3 years, and I can assure you that he has way more upstairs than anyone who interpreted that post as signifying approval of Ahmadinejad.
Posted by: Tom Hilton at September 22, 2006 05:06 PM"We want to stop him from commiting genocide. They look to him for fashion tips."
Iran is repressive and a theocracy. Please inform me of the genocide occurring within Iran or at the direction of Iran. Hezbollah is terrorism and warfare, but I do not believe it is genocide.
Posted by: terrapinbeach at September 24, 2006 10:27 AM
