Matt Yglesias Compares Bush to Ahmadinejad. Unfavorably.
Yeah, and Hilter could energize a crowd better than Churchhill. That doesn't mean...
I keep talking about this with people in real life, but it deserves a blog mention as well -- Mahmoun Ahmadinejad has a pretty sweet hipster style. It all starts with a beard not unlike the one I and many of my twentysomething male friends sport. But it goes deeper. The man went without a tie to address the UN General Assembly. And I was in a bar where the TV was showing his interview with Anderson Cooper (it's DC, these things happen) and while there was no sound, he certainly looked witty and charming. There was also this clip of him walking down some hallway shooting the shit with Kofi Annan. It's like diplomacy! Bush should try it. One gets the sense that he's getting his stody red tie-wearing ass kicked this session by sundry third world goons and it's really not a proud moment for the United States.
Can we just focus for a second on how Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier who wants to get a nuclear weapon and wipe out millions upon millions of Jews? That has to mean something, right? Even a little? "But it goes deeper". "It's like diplomacy". Holy shit. What is wrong with these people?
I keep talking about this with people in real life, but it deserves a blog mention as well -- Mahmoun Ahmadinejad has a pretty sweet hipster style. It all starts with a beard not unlike the one I and many of my twentysomething male friends sport. But it goes deeper. The man went without a tie to address the UN General Assembly. And I was in a bar where the TV was showing his interview with Anderson Cooper (it's DC, these things happen) and while there was no sound, he certainly looked witty and charming. There was also this clip of him walking down some hallway shooting the shit with Kofi Annan. It's like diplomacy! Bush should try it. One gets the sense that he's getting his stody red tie-wearing ass kicked this session by sundry third world goons and it's really not a proud moment for the United States.
Can we just focus for a second on how Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier who wants to get a nuclear weapon and wipe out millions upon millions of Jews? That has to mean something, right? Even a little? "But it goes deeper". "It's like diplomacy". Holy shit. What is wrong with these people?
