[mojo2]

Go to link for info on Colbert and to finish this transcript with Iran's President.

Iranian Leader Opens Up
Ahmadinejad Speaks Candidly With Mike Wallace About Israel, Nukes, Bush

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Aug. 13, 2006
Mike Wallace interviews Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Presidential Palace in Tehran on Tuesday, August 8, 2006. (CBS)

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"Well, please look at the makeup of the American administration, the behavior of the American administration. See how they talk down to my nation."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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(CBS) When Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks out candidly — as is his habit — he scares a lot of people. He has said more than once that Israel should be wiped off the map, and that the Holocaust is an overblown fairytale.

When correspondent Mike Wallace interviewed him in Tehran last week, it became apparent that he sees the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah — a militia Iran has long supported — as part of a larger battle between the U.S. and a militant Islam for control of the Middle East.


"Very clearly, I will tell you that I fully oppose the behavior of the British and the Americans," Ahmadinejad tells Wallace. "They are providing state-of-the-art military hardware to the Zionists. And they are throwing their full support behind Israel. We believe that this threatens the future of all peoples, including the American and European peoples. So we are asking why the American government is blindly supporting this murderous regime."

Wallace tried to ask him about Hezbollah's use of missiles, rockets furnished by Iran, but he wanted to talk about Israel's attacks with American bombs.

"The laser-guided bombs that have been given to the Zionists and they're targeting the shelter of defenseless children and women," the president said.

"Who supports Hezbollah?" Wallace asked. "Who has given Hezbollah hundreds of millions of dollars for years? Who has given Hezbollah Iranian-made missiles and rockets that is making — that are making all kinds …" he continued as he was interrupted.

"Are you the representative of the Zionist regime? Or a journalist?" Ahmadinejad asked Wallace.

"I'm a journalist. I am a journalist," Wallace replied.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1879867.shtml

The Colbert Report
Morley Safer Profiles Comedy Central's 'Fake' Newsman

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Aug. 13, 2006
Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert (CBS)

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"Kids can't understand irony or sarcasm, and I don't want them to perceive me as insincere."
Stephen Colbert


(CBS) This story originally aired on April 30, 2006.

For the best part of six years, President Bush has endured tough treatment from the late night comedians. But this past April, he had to grin and bear it as Stephen Colbert ripped into him from just a few feet away at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

But the main targets of this practitioner of fake news are the talking – rather shouting heads – who populate cable with a diet of often wildly inaccurate but patriotic and combative noise. It was only a matter of time before someone came along to skewer them. As correspondent Morley Safer first reported last Spring, the eagle has landed.


Four nights a week on Comedy Central, Stephen Colbert, the mild-mannered suburbanite turns into Stephen Colbert, the wild-eyed crusader, hell-bent on fighting for truth, justice and the American way.

"Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What’s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is just another example of the homometerological agenda," Colbert tells his audience.

If there is such a thing, he is your humble egomaniac. On his first broadcast, Colbert announced, "…This show is not about me. No, this program is dedicated to you, the heroes. And who are the heroes? The people who watch this show, average hard-working Americans. You’re not the elites. You’re not the country club crowd. I know for a fact my country club would never let you in. You’re the folks who say something has to be done. And you’re doing something. You’re watching TV."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1553506.shtml

[voodoo]

I hate to be the one who brings this up, but this is just another rule 8 violation. Get a blog please.. put it in you signature if you want to advertise it on this forum.



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[mojo2]

Originally Posted by voodoo

I hate to be the one who brings this up, but this is just another rule 8 violation. Get a blog please.. put it in you signature if you want to advertise it on this forum.



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I think you are dashing any good thoughts I had about your judgment. How can I discuss what I haven't yet watched?

Would you prefer that I form an opinion on the show before considering the content of the interview? Is this how you come to your opinions? I wouldn't be surprised.

This is your cold talking. Please go to bed. Drink fluids. Try chicken soup and matzoh balls. It couldn't hurt.

[voodoo]

Originally Posted by mojo2

I think you are dashing any good thoughts I had about your judgment. How can I discuss what I haven't yet watched?

Would you prefer that I form an opinion on the show before considering the content of the interview? Is this how you come to your opinions? I wouldn't be surprised.

This is your cold talking. Please go to bed. Drink fluids. Try chicken soup and matzoh balls. It couldn't hurt.

Patience grasshopper. Watch first, discuss later

Thanks for the link though. I'm watching the interview with Ahmadinejad now. He is a very charismatic leader.

I'm drinking hot milk with honey. Helps the throat.

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[Kerrigan]

He's got a point mojo, at the very least I put in a sort of perfunctory blurb at the end of a new post, explaining why it's relevant and what I think about it.

Putting that aside, I don't have any interest watching Ahmadinejad. I've read his interviews from the past and he's nothing but a duplicitous fool who is trying to play off the sympathies of the media.

All that really matters about this guy is that he's a millennial fundamentalist who denies the holocaust. Not worth my time.

Steve Colbert on the other hand is good fun, I may tune in for that.

[mojo2]

Originally Posted by voodoo

Patience grasshopper. Watch first, discuss later

Thanks for the link though. I'm watching the interview with Ahmadinejad now. He is a very charismatic leader.

I'm drinking hot milk with honey. Helps the throat.

V

You know what milk is. You'll get more phlegmmy. But feeling good is important.

[mojo2]

Re: 60 Minutes. Mike Wallace is old enough that he can get away with giving Ahmadinejad crap.

[Kerrigan]

Ahmadinejad asked him: Aren't you retired?

[mojo2]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

Ahmadinejad asked him: Aren't you retired?

Here's some more info on Ahmadinejad.

22:46 , 07.20.06

Iran leader asks Germany for help on Zionism

German government official says a letter written by Iranian President Ahmadinejad to German Chancellor Merkel asks her to help solve Palestinian problem, deal with Zionism. Official says letter ‘rather weird’

A German government official said on Thursday that letter written by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to German Chancellor Angela Merkel asks her to help solve the Palestinian problem and deal with Zionism.

“There’s nothing about the nuclear issue (in the letter),” the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity due to the extreme sensitivity of the issue for the German government.

“It’s all related to Germany and how we have to find a solution to the Palestinian problems and Zionism and so on. It’s rather weird,” The official, who has seen the letter, said.

Iranian students news agency said on Wednesday that Ahmadinejad had written to Merkel, but until Thursday officials had not spoken about the contents.

Zionism is a political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, now the state of Israel. The fate of Palestinian Arab refugees is one of the world’s largest and most long-lasting refugee problems.

Berlin’s relations with Ahmadinejad have been complicated by his denial of the Holocaust, in which Germany’s Nazi regime killed six million Jews, and his call for Israel to be wiped off the map.

Holocaust denial is a crime in Germany punishable with up to five years in prison.

“It’s extremely touchy (for the German government),” said the official, adding that the government did not yet know if or how it would respond. “There are a lot of propaganda phrases about Israel and the Jews inside.”

'He is not criticizing Germany'

In May Ahmadinejad wrote US President George W. Bush an 18-page letter discussing religious values, history and international relations.

In it, he took swipes at Israel and at the United States.

He sharply criticized Bush on many fronts, implying that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, abuses of detainees in US prisons in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib—and his staunch support for Israel—were somehow inconsistent with Bush’s Christian beliefs.

But the letter to Merkel was different and was not confrontational in tone, the official said.

“It’s not negative like Ahmadinejad’s letter to Bush. He is not criticizing Germany,” he said. “It’s basically about how we have to work together and solve the problems of the world together.”

In February, Merkel compared Ahmadinejad’s statements and stance to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power when he and his Nazi party began threatening to exterminate European Jewry.

“Remember that in 1933 many people said it was just rhetoric,” Merkel said.

The German official said it was interesting that the letter did not discuss Iran’s nuclear standoff with the United States, European Union and other countries.

Iran is facing possible action at the UN Security Council over suspicions that it is developing nuclear arms. Tehran denies the charge, saying it is working on nuclear fuel only to run power stations.

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