Posted on 06/14/2009 3:29:38 AM PDT by angkor
The BBC website prominently featured the protests yesterday
and early today.
The arrests are now the lead world news story there.
Great post. Thanks, and thanks for the links.
CNN figures they get brownie points from 0bama for ignoring Amedinejad’s victory. Because 0bama claimed he could move the Muslim masses and influenced the Iranians to vote for “the moderate”
Snort. No, it's not.
Unbefreakinglievable.
Nuthin' like robust debate....
Absolutely. Recall how all the Big 0 had to do during the election was make a passing reference to how much further ahead he would be without them and FNC toned things down from there on in.
"Radical Right-Wing Iranian Conservatives are the sore losers as the vast majority of the enlightened population reelected reformist and moderate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "
"Jimmie Carter has declared the election one of the most fair and democratic he's ever seen"
"Dear Leader Obamah wishes the Iranian Leader all the wisdom and strength in dealing with the issues before him as he spoke in Arabic to our Iranian friend -- 'asa lama lakum '"
twitter BUMP! Lot’s of good (compiling fast) information to get up to speed.
If you keep up with the Twitter feed http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23IranElection you’ll see that the protests are ongoing and massive.
AmaDingDong’s press conference is a complete denial of the reality in Tehran, which is that the election is a farce and people are PO’d.
AmaDingDong repeatedly (almost evert question) mentioned that “foreign powers” were causing all the problems and protests and disruptions.
He said it so often that it became apparent that he’s scared.
The comments are so-so, but the links to other articles and media are nearly realtime and invaluable.
In FireFox you just right click on any of those embedded TinyURL links (e.g., http://bit.ly/43zREX) and select “Open Link In New Tab/Window”.
Ok- now this is downright funny.
CNN is now (and has been) playing live, without commercials, the press conference by MadMood!!! I think they got the message.
What a HOOT!
Heh, heh, heh! Careful, after all CNN is the hard news network unlike those rightwingnuts at Faux or the leftwingers at MSNBC. If CNN doesn’t cover it, it’s not hard news.
I was relegated to watching it on Al Jazeera!
But AmaDingDong is such a bloviating and half-insane nitwit that I finally bailed out.
Not odd at all when you realize they are covering Bozo's butt. Bozo wanted Mousavi to win so he could claim credit for "changing" things in Iran with his "wonderful" Cairo speech. Instead Imanutjob won(not really)by a huge amount, making Bozo look stupid. To top that off Bozo also was rambling about how he had(obviously, what a self centered jerk)caused them to have meaningful debate over the issues.
A full blown riot isn't "debate", it is a riot and shows just how f***ed up Iran is. Also the violence that the Iranian government is using to quell the riots can't be shown, no, no, no. CNN can't allow that, people might get the idea that Imanutjob and the Mullahs, as well as other Islamic extremists are violent a**hats.
It is just more proof that the left wing media is determined to cover only those things which make the left and muslims look good. It didn't work however, since Fox and BBC(some of whose reporters were arrested and attacked)and thousands of Iranian twitter users were sending out videos, photos and text about the riots.
To be fair he said that before the election results were in, what makes that statement so stupid is he thought Mousavi would win and that he(Bozo)could claim credit for it. He looks totally stupid over these remarks and has remained silent except for a few stupid comments from his minions.
goto twitter. Last I read over 100 reformists were arrested. They police set a trap last night, telling people that Mousavi would lead a march at 12:30(Iranian time)and people were to meet at a certain point. When people got on buses and went there they were arrested. Nice, huh?
I don’t get it. Didn’t the mullahs pick all of the “candidates”?. Mousavi, Ahmahdangnutjob...what’s the diff?? As for the protests, that’s like protesting you got Hitler instead of Mussolini. I can understanding Iranians protesting. They’ve got a lot to be furious about. But are they protesting the fact that their election was a crock, or that they didn’t get the despot of their choice? Color me confused.
In theory, a more open and free society would eventually back down from a more aggressive foreign policy, so Mousavi is better for us in the long term. But he's no angel; he's a thug bastard from way back, with a long bloody history within the government.
So, the differences are cosmetic in the short term, but may be pronounced in the long term.
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