Posted on 09/26/2007 7:43:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The invitation was on creamy stationery with fancy calligraphy: The Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran "requests the pleasure" of my company to dine with H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The dinner is at the Intercontinental Hotel — with names carefully written out at all the place settings around a rectangular table. There are about 50 of us, academics and journalists mostly. There's Brian Williams across the room, and Christiane Amanpour a few seats down. And at a little after 8pm, on a day when he has already addressed the U.N., the evening after his confrontation at Columbia, a bowing and smiling Mahmoud Admadinejad glides into the room.
This is now an annual ritual for the President of Iran. Every year, during the U.N. General Assembly in New York, he plots out a media campaign that — in its shrewdness, relentlessness, and quest for attention — would rival Angelina Jolie on a movie junket. And like any international figure, Mr. Ahmadinejad hones his performance for multiple audiences: in this case, the journalists and academics who can filter his speech and ideas for a wider American audience.
The format of the evening is curious. In his calm and fluent voice — "dear friends," he calls us — he requests that we not ask questions, but make statements, so that he can react to them in a form of dialogue. The academics are not shy. They make statements not only about the need for dialogue and reconciliation, but castigate the Iranian government for chilling press freedoms and for arresting Iranian-American scholars who were only trying to foster better relations between America and Iran. Throughout, Ahmadinejad is courtly, preternaturally calm, and fiercely articulate.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
LOL. Ok. Radical Professor. That should cover Al Gore too.
And will the numb nut Republicans take these words and this opportunity to slam the Democrats?
Hell no, they are total fools and cannot be trusted with this country.
“I know the Democrat talking points at least as well as you!”
There are quotes galore.
Call them the Unpatriotic Enemy Sympathizer they are!
They 'support' our military by calling them murderers and rapist and terrorist themselves.
It's waaaay worse than that. Self-duped is the more accurate diagnosis.
Words must fail Hillary also. I don’t believe she has made any comments at all about Ahmadinejad’s visit or his speech at the UN. Maybe she doesn’t want to hurt his feelings?????
Yes, as a matter of fact she did.
“he requests that we not ask questions, but make statements, so that he can react to them in a form of dialogue”
Which is exactly what he did at Columbia. And what he does all the time. He never answers the question, he just responds however he pleases.
“I think he’s crazy.”
I think Hitler was crazy, too. And look at what he did.
You expected something other from Time?
Come on....(chuckle)
Laura Ingraham is having a ball mocking this right now.
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I hope he ordered the pork.
Ok guys! I used the wrong word. LOL. Duped is not approprate.
Matchett, I found this particularly useful
Also in the unconscious mind, there is no distinction between the memory of something that actually occurred vs. the memory of a fantasy. Here we can understand how and why the left is so prone to mythologizing the past, as their fantasies are mingled with reality.
This has puzzled me for a long time. Clears things up nicely. Thank you for directing me to the post.
He is right about Iran not invading anyone. All the many invasions by his country were done under the name of Persia.
You’re welcome. :) bttt
Was David Gregory there to ask tough questions like he tried to do to Bush?
Are you listening to us? Why do you meekly accept liberal lies? Why do you not fight back? Why should I give you money? We had the Presidency, the Congres, and the Senate for six years. Why was Dem voter fraud not prosecuted? Why are the Clintons not in jail? Why did you do NOTHING while the liberal press lied about your every move for the last twenty years? Why are you so SPINELESS? Hit 'em hard, make it happen - then I will donate. I want to see TV commercials that hit these traitors so hard that we win 90-10. Got it? It's EASY - tell the truth, show the traitors, expose them.
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