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Mike Wallace (ABC) Finds Ahmadinejad 'Impressive'
KXNet ^ | 8/11/06 | KXNet

Posted on 08/11/2006 9:42:44 PM PDT by freedom44

In the interview, Ahmadinejad said of the Bush administration, "see how they talk down to my nation."

During the midst of the American hostage crisis in 1979, Wallace interviewed Iranian leader Khomeini, locking eyes with the cleric when he asked for a response to Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat calling Khomeini a lunatic.

Of Ahmadinejad, Wallace said, "He's an impressive fellow, this guy. He really is. He's obviously smart as hell."

Wallace said he was surprised to find that the Iranian president was still a college professor who taught a graduate-level course.

"You'll find him an interesting man," he said. "I expected more of a firebrand. I don't think he has the slightest doubt about how he feels ... about the American administration and the Zionist state. He comes across as more rational than I had expected."

Ahmadinejad, of course, is the same leader who routinely questions whether or not the holocaust actually happened in Europe and makes almost weekly calls to wipe Israel off the map.

And Wallace uses the word "rational" to describe this man.

Also, let Wallace's last comment about "the Zionist state" sink in for a moment. Wallace isn't quoting Ahamdinejad; those are Wallace's own words.

Zionist state. Nice, Mike.

Personally, this seems to be about equivalent to some enterprising reporter interviewing Hitler after Munich in the 1930's, listening to his spiel about how the "Jewry" is destroying Europe and then coming back and telling everyone at home about how Adolf seems pretty "rational."

The only difference between Hitler and Ahmadinejad being, of course, that Hitler eventually fulfilled his desires to slaughter Jews. So far Ahamdinejad has only been able to accomplish that through proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; cbsnews; hesbraindeadjim; mikewallace; senileoldfool
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To: freedom44
Of Ahmadinejad, Wallace said, "He's an impressive fellow, this guy. He really is. He's obviously smart as hell."

Who's the lunatic?

21 posted on 08/11/2006 9:56:59 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: freedom44

Mike Wallace, like Neville Chamberlain, is just another wishy washy leftist who can't fathom that tyrants and despots easily lie to cover their true intent. To believe that Ahmanutjob is an honorable person is to keep their heads firmly planted up ...... well ...... in the clouds.

Kumbaya doesn't really have a translation into the language of the terrorists.


22 posted on 08/11/2006 9:59:11 PM PDT by DakotaRed
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To: freedom44
Walter Duranty won a 1932 Pulitzer Prize for New York Times series portraying mass-murderer Jozeph Stalin as a benevolent leader. Tad Szulc, the New York Times reporter who exposed the Bay of Pigs invasion before it happened, wrote a book about Castro as the romantic liberator. Edgar Snow allowed Mao Tsu Tung to edit "Red Star Over China", a book of pure propaganda that painted the psychopathic Mao as the best hope for China and the man FDR should back. The American news media is a gaggle of fellow travelers and total fools.
23 posted on 08/11/2006 10:01:03 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: Reagan Man

I believe Wallace's comment about Hitler was, "That young whippersnapper is smart as hell."

What is it with these TV idiots and their schoolgirl crushes on psychotic dictators?


24 posted on 08/11/2006 10:01:38 PM PDT by MediaMole (9/11 - We have already forgotten.)
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To: freedom44

He's obviously smart as hell

The devil usually is, you half wit.


25 posted on 08/11/2006 10:07:24 PM PDT by hardworking
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To: Sans-Culotte

Wallace finds Sponge Bob, and Patrick impressive too!


26 posted on 08/11/2006 10:09:33 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl! *-0(:~{>)
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To: Sans-Culotte

What's crazy to me is that Ahmadinejad would love to kill Wallace simply because he's Jewish. Talk about being a useful idiot.


27 posted on 08/11/2006 10:12:56 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (The most important thing is sincerity. Once you can fake that, everything else is easy.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Just wait until Mike Wallace meets up with the devil, for he is going to be really thrilled.


28 posted on 08/11/2006 10:15:00 PM PDT by tessalu
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To: freedom44

You know, I'm about ready to slap the crap out of these people (like Mike Wallace, Drunken Kennedy, Cindy
Sh!thead) who are pandering to these cutthroats. Everytime they stroke the egos of these terrorists makes them a bigger threat my children. These pukes need to just stay out of my way!


29 posted on 08/11/2006 10:17:19 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: freedom44

Mike has gone Neville.

30 posted on 08/11/2006 10:20:02 PM PDT by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: freedom44

a college professor who taught a graduate-level course.

What class does Ahmadinejad teach:

Advanced Jihad?
Introduction to IEDs?
Bomb making for beginners?
Advanced Antisemitism?
Martyrdom for dummies?
Fauxtography for jihadists?
Introduction to Thermonuclear war?

31 posted on 08/11/2006 10:21:31 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: freedom44

Wallace should have been wearing a suicide bomber vest. Then he could have invited Ahmadinejad and the ayatolla Khomeini together and taken them both out.


32 posted on 08/11/2006 10:22:17 PM PDT by Pine Mtn. Maverick
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To: MediaMole

I don't know, but we ought to Freep that comment section on that See BS site.


33 posted on 08/11/2006 10:26:43 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Sans-Culotte
Wallace is clearly senile.

The good news for Mike Wallace is that scientists are getting closer to a cure for Alzheimer's.

If he can hang in there for a few more years, they might be able to stop his disease from progressing too far.
34 posted on 08/11/2006 11:05:21 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: My2Cents
Another "Dan Rather Moment."

Yes...reminds me of Dan's "glowing account" of his interview with Saddam...oh, let's not forget BaBa Walters interview of Castro and how she found him "just-oh-so-sexy!"

Idiotic traitors, each and everyone!

35 posted on 08/11/2006 11:07:34 PM PDT by top 2 toe red (To the enemy in Iraq..."Don't bet on American politics forcing my hand!" President Bush)
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To: freedom44
Anybody who cajoles that empty-headed windbag Wallace is impressive to him, particularly if that someone is a murderous dictator and Islamic fascist.
36 posted on 08/11/2006 11:12:01 PM PDT by stripes1776
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To: freedom44

More imbecilty from SeeBS


37 posted on 08/11/2006 11:26:01 PM PDT by cookcounty (Army Vet, Army Dad)
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To: freedom44
Wallace isn't quoting Ahamdinejad; those are Wallace's own words.

Those are Ahamdinejad's words for Israel.

38 posted on 08/12/2006 1:59:56 AM PDT by Gondring (If "Conservatives" now want to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
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To: WKUHilltopper
I don't know, but we ought to Freep that comment section on that See BS site.

Did you read that comment section? WOW!

If I'm not mistaken, Ahmadinejad never said anything about "wiping Israel off the map", however through intentional mistranslation, this is what "they" said he meant.......This guy is probably be the brightest head of state since JFK. What's more, his positions on Zionism and the Holocaust are admirable and represent a small but welcome ray of light in a world that seems to have gone utterly barmy.......Ahmadinejad and Hitler are complete oposites. Hitler wanted all Jews out of Europe and into Palestine, while Ahmadinejad simply wants to send them back where they came from. For some reason, both men have been greatly villified.

It goes on, and on, and on. I need a bath after reading some of those comments.

39 posted on 08/12/2006 2:26:23 AM PDT by cf_river_rat (And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee...Genesis 12:3(a), KJV)
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To: freedom44

Just like James Earl Carter,who never met a dictator he didn't like....Ever notice when old Journalists "retire"
they do a Cronkite on everyone and try to out Hollywood the
old actors/actresses for their banality and anti-American
cozing with the enemy?


40 posted on 08/12/2006 4:18:06 AM PDT by StonyBurk
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