Posted on 09/29/2007 5:56:51 AM PDT by nuconvert
Guest of President Ahmadinejad
Michael Rubin
We live in a time when journalists want to be news, rather than report it. It wasn't too much of a surprise, then, when head table journalists at the National Press Club wanted to stand up and be recognized by name prior to the Ahmadinejad speech. What was a bit surprising was that one head table member, Kaveh Afrasiabi, was introduced as Ahmadinejad's guest.
Hmm. Afrasiabi has contributed several op-eds to and published several letter in the New York Times. Each has forwarded the canard that if only Washington were more generous with the Islamic Republic, Iranian behavior would soften; that the U.S. should turn responsibility for Iraq over to others (such as the Organization of Islamic Conference); and that there is nothing legally wrong with Iran's nuclear enrichment. No where does the New York Times identify his relationship with the Iranian government.
One NYT news story, from November 28, 2004, though, did identify Afrasiabi as an advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team. Did the New York Times editorial page editors not believe such information was relevant? Why did Jerry Zremski, the president of the National Press Club, believe Afrasiabi's perch as a professor of international relations at Bentley College in the Boston suburbs was more important?
Some answers: Jerry Zremski, the president of the National Press Club, is one of the most puffed up, self-important, yet ignorant, people on the planet {did anyone see him on TV? Stunning ability to grovel) and press club members elected him anyway. He is what Lenin would have called a useful idiot, and in that sense, represents his industry well. Also the New York Times editorial page editors are lying, unscrupulous, traitorous, smug bastards who would bury their own mothers in a unmarked grave if it made Bush look bad and put their country at a disadvantage. Thank God for the Internet so all these liars and posers get outed before their actual print dries on the page.
Forgot to say that Kaveh Afrasiabi should have been kicked out of our country years ago and required to return to and live in his beloved Iran.
“Kaveh Afrasiabi should have been kicked out of our country years ago”
He still should
To be more specific, he should not have been allowed to return after he got his degree here and then went to Iran to teach at Tehran University. Why they gave this jihadi permission to come back here is beyond me. Everyone knows what his agenda is.
Been that way for some 20 years now and it is the major failing of the politically corrupted media. They have decided they are "opinion shapers" instead of journalists.
>>>They have decided they are “opinion shapers” instead of journalists.<<<
—Bias journalists undermining US preps to take on Iran is the plot line of this new Thriller... http://anonymoussedition.com/
got the red X
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