Ahmadinejad Fever

Once in a blue moon, some scumbag dictator or terrorist comes to New York and a bunch of lefties praise them. Not for their evil deeds, but because they hate America. Of course, the lefties “don’t hate America”. They are the “true patriots”. That’s why they defend our enemies and trash our own leaders. In lefty world, up is down and wrong is right. This is why so many of them defended Stalin back in the day, even though Stalin killed more people than Hitler, many times over. And Castro remains a hero, because of his “great health care system”. The fact that he’s a totalitarian dictator who suppresses free speech and shoots people for trying to escape is conveniently forgotten. See, they have great health care. That makes up for everything. Does that mean they would love Dick Cheney if he got Socialized Medicine passed? Nah, he’s a Republican. You have to have “great health care” and hate America to get lefty love.

Anyway, the latest dufus to come ashore is the world’s dorkiest leader this side of Kim Jong Il. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may or may not have been one of the “students” who took Americans hostage in the 70s Iran Crisis. But now he’s calling for Israel to be wiped off the page of time, or the maps. Whatever. He’s proven himself to be a double-talking media wrangler and it’s clear he can’t be trusted. He comes from a long line of mendacious dorks who like to thumb their nose in America’s face because the yahoos back home eat it up. And even the ones we have here.

I know I’m a Jewish lesbian and he’d probably have me killed.  But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me swoon

See what I mean?

Personally, I’m not opposed to letting Ahmadinejad speak. After all, let these clowns hang themselves with their own rope. This is supposed to be a “free country”, so I have no problem with him speaking at Columbia University. My problem is they won’t let conservatives speak. Even though Ahmadinejad is more conservative than anyone here. But he gets a pass because he is an “enemy of America”. That’s the secret to lefty love. Hate America = praise from the NY Times crowd. Why do you think so many celebs do it? Did you think they had principals or something?

And, hey-- I’m not even opposed to him laying a wreath at Ground Zero, even though it’s probably for the 19 hijackers and not the victims. Iran is a supporter of Al Qaeda, but they didn’t have anything to do with 9/11 (as far as we know). We don’t make ourselves look big by demonizing anyone who comes here and wants to pay their respects. It makes us look petty.

America does react to things in a ham-handed fashion, which has inspired a lot of the animus out there. I think we can do a better job in handling the way we treat some of these people like Ahmadinejad. We play into their hands when we get too angry and emotional. The guy is a joke. His own people hate him. Treating him like a F list celebrity would be more in line. Make sure he can’t get into any clubs and have TMZ there to video it. Maybe have tabloids give him the Britney treatment. At east we could get a laugh out of it all.

The fact that he is a holocaust denier and president of a totalitarian regime doesn’t make him anything other that a doofus with power. Most people like him are chumps who got lucky. His luck will run out soon. We shouldn’t give him more power than he already has by making a big deal of him.

UPDATE: Columbia University’s president gave Ahmadinejad a brow beating. Good for him. I’d still like to know why they can’t give conservative speakers a fair shake.

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