Posted on 06/12/2009 10:20:03 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
Despite his having been feted in liberal bastions such as Columbia University and the UN -- over the objections of American conservatives -- when it comes time to analogize today's Iranian Presidential Elections, NPR's reporters claim that the "conservative" voting blocs supporting hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are akin to Republican Evangelicals.
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And we wonder why the voting public votes the way they do. This hate speech should be shut down.
The only analogy that can be drawn is that Am-a-dinner-jacket’s core supporters are in the rural areas of Iran, as well as among the lower-middle classes in places like South Tehran. The political context in Iran is far different than in the US, so any further attempts to analyze via a US prism are asinine.
No thanks. I'll take your word for it.
‘Republican Evangelicals’ support the existance of Israel. The Iranian leader wants Israel wiped off the map. Thanks, NPR.
The ONLY problem I have with NPR’s propaganda is the “P”.
It is “public”, which means I am FORCED, literally at the point of a gun, to pay for it.
We ever get in power again.
NPR and PBS need to be defunded.
We won’t - and we didn’t when we did have power.
Oh sure..conservative christians wish to censor free speech, confiscate satellite dishes and repress the freedoms of decent women like the monkey man relishes. Sounds more like the current crop of liberal fascists running our own nation.
The truly frightening thing about this mindset is the denial of the legitimacy of not just our ideas and beliefs but our very existence as human beings. All tyrants in history have justified their campaigns against their opposition by first denying that their enemies were human. Once you deny your enemies their humanity, any and all means to oppress them become not only acceptable but justified and even necessary. Today’s Leftists seem all too willing to go down that rhetorical path.
Yes, they hate Christians in particular - but they hated Christ first. File under “count the cost.”
He only won in 1995 because 4 million votes were fraudulently added to his totals. This has been documented by Project Vote. I think he may well lose this time, because he is even more hated 4 year later.
No way in hell.
Carp like this is why I don’t bother listening to National Gay Radio.
Rush talking about this now....LOL!!
He’s always late to my game!
I sorta feel sorry for them because when they started down this path with Alinsky and CLowrad Pliven et al it was clear they couldn't actually "win". But they just had to try and so now we have to put an end to the sh!t. Get some!
Whatever.
And we eat babies too, you effing waste of protein.
It doesn’t appear that he’s a reporter for that program. Instead, it appears that they were interviewing and/or asking an outside person (you know... one of these so-called experts that all programs call in to speak on an issue) to answer some questions.
I looked up this guys background and with the outfit that he’s from, this is what it says...
Karim Sadjadpour
ASSOCIATE
MIDDLE EAST PROGRAM
Karim Sadjadpour is an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He joined Carnegie after four years as the chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group based in Tehran and Washington, D.C. A leading researcher on Iran, Sadjadpour has conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials, and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others.
He is a regular contributor to BBC World TV and radio, CNN, National Public Radio, and PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and has written for the Economist, Washington Post, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and New Republic.
Frequently called upon to brief U.S. and EU officials about Middle Eastern affairs, he has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, given lectures at Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford Universities, and has been the recipient of numerous academic awards, including a Fulbright scholarship.
Sadjadpour was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos, and is a board member of the Banu Foundation, an organization dedicated to assisting grass-roots organizations that are empowering women worldwide. He has lived in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Selected Publications: Setting the Scene: Iran’s Presidential (S)elections (Q&A, June 2, 2009); President Obama’s Video Message to Iran: Q&A with Karim Sadjadpour (Web Commentary, March 20, 2009); Iranian Political and Nuclear Realities and U.S. Policy Options (Senate Foreign Relations Committee Testimony, March 3, 2009); Iran: Is Productive Engagement Possible? (Carnegie Policy Brief, October 2008); Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran’s Most Powerful Leader (Carnegie Report, March 2008)
Areas of Expertise
Iranian politics and society; Iran’s nuclear program; Iranian foreign policy; Iran’s role in Iraq; U.S. Foreign policy toward the Middle East; Democracy, economic development, and reform in the Middle East; Security in the Middle East; Comparative politics; Terrorism
Furthermore, it did not appear that he was making a direct comparison of Evangelical voters to Ahmadinejad supporters — as if they were either terrorists or whackos or anything like that. The comparison that he was making was their *commitment* levels.
He was saying that the *base* that Ahmadinejad had (i.e., these kinds of supporters) were *as committed* as you might find Evangelical voters to be committed.
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SO..., I wouldn’t take his comparison to say that Evangelical voters were the same “whackos” or even “terrorists” as Ahmadinejad voters — but that they had that kind of “commitment levels” as you would see in Evangelical voters...
In fact, he was saying that Ahmadinejad’s base of support is like the Evangelical base of support in that they are not a majority of the population but they are a committed portion of the voting population in that they vote every time.
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