{"id":325,"date":"2006-08-15T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T18:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/08\/15\/questions-for-the-iranian-president\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T18:17:52","slug":"questions-for-the-iranian-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/15\/questions-for-the-iranian-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for the Iranian President"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched Sunday’s interview with Adolph Hitler<\/strike> Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 60 Minutes and I was sick. This stomach-churning was caused not by the Iranian president but by Mike Wallace. There are many old fools out there, but that a large news organization would give this “interview” air time suggests that their priorities are ratings and Bush-bashing and not honest journalism. Dennis Prager<\/a> has a good response, noting that Wallace<\/span> “probably laughed more with Ahmadinejad than any American news reporter has ever laughed on camera with the president of the United States.” Prager poses some questions the “useful idiot” should have asked, including:<\/span><\/p>\n

In countries with a free press and where history is understood as consisting of verifiable facts, anyone who denies the Holocaust, the systematic murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazis, is regarded as either an anti-Semite or a kook or both. You have repeatedly denied the Holocaust. Why should the world not regard you as either a kook or an anti-Semite? And do you understand why most free societies wish to prevent you from acquiring nuclear weapons?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why do you believe that millions of Iranians chant “death to America” and “death to Israel” but no Americans or Israelis chant “death to Iran”?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Prager’s conclusion: “<\/span>As it happens, Mike Wallace and CBS News did what they set out to do — win in the ratings war Sunday night. But they hurt America and abetted evil in the process. Not deliberately, but knowingly.<\/span>” It’s worth a read<\/a> to better understand why Iran’s leaders are evil and how journalism should work.<\/p>\n

(HT: Fred Butler<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched Sunday’s interview with Adolph Hitler Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 60 Minutes and I was sick. This stomach-churning was caused not by the Iranian president but by Mike Wallace. There are many old fools out there, but that a large news organization would give this “interview” air time suggests that their priorities are ratings and\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-middle-east","category-things-i-dont-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}