Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s President: what a loathsome lout. Former diplomat Martin Indyk of the Brookings Institute described him aptly: wily, ignorant, smarmy, and not mad, just crazy like a fox. Ahmadinejad ignored CNN’s Anderson Cooper’s question (admittedly easy to do; that girl’s a mess) as to his wipe-Israel-off-the-map routine. Instead, he fixed his dead, beady eyes on the coy Cooper, and shot back with this: “the Zionist regimeâ€?—why can’t anyone criticize it in the US?â€? gormless git. Has he never visited his buds at The American Conservative, Antiwar.com, Counterpunch, A.N.S.W.E.R, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and other tinfoilers, whose views at their tamest represent maybe 13 percent of American opinion? (See this poll from the Phew Research Center. “The Hebraic Bondâ€? will help provide a deeper understating of Americans’ moral affinities. That, and suicide bombings.)
Next, smirking as though he’d come up with something super smart, Iran’s Majnun-in-Chief asked the inept Anderson, “Why don’t they allow more research and studies to be done about [the Holocaust]?â€? For Pete’s sake, hasn’t this fool, with his Ph.D. in traffic and transportation engineering and planning, had an invitation from the Institute for Historical Review, our premier Holocaust denial coven of kooks? They can rattle off reams of “researchersâ€? who’ve dedicated themselves to proving the gas chambers were really Jacuzzis (the sum-total of Fred Leuchter’s “scholarship, for instance).
Or does Ahmadinejad think he’s on to something?