Mike Wallace Says Ahmadinejad “a Swell Guy”
In an interview with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mike Wallace of CBS’s “Sixty Minutes” TV show came away quite impressed. "He's a swell guy,” Wallace said. “He really is. He's obviously smart as hell. He’s a college professor, for Christ’s sake. Nobody’s smarter than them."
"Granted he wants to wipe Israel off the map, but I’m a Jew and he didn’t kill me when he had the chance,” Wallace continued. “You’ve got to give him credit for that. I found him an interesting man. He has some intriguing ideas.”
One of the “intriguing ideas cited by Wallace was Ahmadinejad’s suggestion that the Jews of Israel could simply be relocated. “He suggested that a new homeland for the Jews could be established in Alaska, which I find fascinating," Wallace said. “He pointed out that if European Jews had been sent to Madagascar like the Nazis requested, they wouldn’t have had to kill them. You’ve got to admit he has a point there. And who are we to say that the stonings and hangings haven’t been a useful weapon in the battle against immorality?”
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>Mike Wallace says Ahmadinejad a "Swell Guy"<
Well, so much for Wallace's value system. That Ahmadinejad did not kill him on the spot can only mean that "he is a swell guy!" Give me a break! To Wallace's "smart" - "Smart does not equal "good" or "right". Smart can be, as with Ahmadinejad, "darkly cunning." But then I forget, the media moguls have no value system after all.
Back in 1980, when Castro was busy helping African revolutionistas, I suggested to an Israeli friend that Cuba and Israel swap lands. Castro could have much easier access to Africa and the Jews could do really well in the hotel business in Havana. Seemed perfect to me, but friend turned white and almost fainted on the spot.
As for Wallace, he did a better interview of Ahneedajihad than Rather did of Saddam. Far less worshipful.