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I was attending Chattahoochie Community College in 1979 when the Iranian Hostage situation began. That is a community College in Phoenix City Alabama, across the border from Columbus GA. I was attained college on my GI bill. I was enlisted from “73” to “76”.

Anyway, the College Dean told the Iranian students not to return the next Semester after the Hostage situation began. Then Jimmy Carter called and told him he had to let them come back.

I had gotten to know a few Iranian students, and would go over to their dorm and talk about things as I tend to reason with them.

I was ignorant at the time of how our government and media worked, but these guys would tell me stories of how my government lies to me and so does my media lie.

I was defending the government and told them we had the freest and most honest media in the world.

I remember thinking back to those days when I started listening to Rush Limbaugh he was in Sacramento, and then when he went national. (I lived in Chico CA any that time.) Listened to rush until he died.

Going back in my. ind to those debates, and all I can say is they new better about my media and my government than I did.

I was a college freshmen when the Embassy mess had just finished. There was a guy that was Iranian and I (and a few other guys) must have been giving him a little stink eye because he explained to the class he was a victim of the Ayatollah. His family has suffered murder, property losses and many had fled. He was a true refugee. My mother worked with a wonderful Persian named Tay, her family was ancient and pro-Shah but her husband was a typical Islamist creep, a weirdo. He used her kids to entice her to go back to Iran and she was never seen again or even heard from. her stuff was left on her desk like she would come back. She was probably forced in a burka or a convent or she was swung from one of those industrial cranes they used to murder pro-USA citizens.

FORK Jimmy Carter, all you guys/gals that say these sweet things when we hear about his poor health probably weren’t even around to see the shit-show he created.. Unlike the millions we see today Khomeini created true refugees.

I do think there was a time when, even with the imperfections, I would still take our media over that of others anywhere in the world.

But that was a long time ago. Our media wasn’t always 95-98% Leftist. There was a time when there were still conservative outlets, but the shift began in the Fifties, and began to swing wildly to the Left in the Sixties and Seventies, and by the time Reagan was elected, the devastation in the media was nearly complete...by the beginning of the Clinton Administration, I believe it was close to what we have today.

I had a lot of hope for Iran before the Islamic Revolution. I do recall the hunted look on the faces of a few Iranians I knew who really loved America, more than nearly any Leftist I see today, but that is damning with faint praise. I knew several who didn’t want to go back, but were forced by their government and families to do so. I often wonder what became of those young men I knew.