Published on December 11, 2006 By Island Dog In Politics

At a recent speech held at Columbia University, the Iranian Ambassador Javad Zarif, started in with the rhetoric that you will find on any liberal website.

"Nobody in Lebanon wants a religious government," he said. "Don't consume whatever is fed by FOX News."

Now when you first read this it sounds like typical rhetoric from Howard Dean, or any other person who leans that way, but this is coming from a fanatic from Iran.  I wonder where he learned about the Fox News rhetoric, or maybe the left and fanatical Iranians just think alike. 


Comments
on Dec 11, 2006
I think he's right to a point. I think the main people making a stink in Lebanon are the Syrians, and while the Syrians enjoy using religious leaders to their own ends, they also don't want them being too powerful. Once religion shifts from being a facade to a legitimate guide they lose their power. They love people blowing themselves up for Allah, but they can't risk Allah differing with them politically.

As for the Fox News comment, they are well schooled in American politics. I've more and more seen notable folks from the anti-US interests in the Middle East using what might be cut-and-paste statements from MoveOn, or the Democrat Underground. People like you and me and others here have warned for years that the disgruntled quasi-Liberals in the US are producing propaganda for evil people, and we were right.

on Dec 11, 2006
People like you and me and others here have warned for years that the disgruntled quasi-Liberals in the US are producing propaganda for evil people, and we were right.
That is absolutely correct.
on Dec 12, 2006

People like you and me and others here have warned for years that the disgruntled quasi-Liberals in the US are producing propaganda for evil people, and we were right.

What came first - the chicken or the egg?  Does it really matter who is parrotting whom?  Or just that they are in sync with their stated goals and objectives?

on Dec 12, 2006
Thats a good point also.  The worse thing here is that the Iranian regime, terrorists, and the left wing use and believe the same rhetoric.
on Dec 16, 2006
However, right-wing rhetorics also inspired military dictatorships in many places. It just happens that the fad and the spotlight right now is about the left..
on Dec 16, 2006
However, right-wing rhetorics also inspired military dictatorships in many places. It just happens that the fad and the spotlight right now is about the left..


Please explain this to me. If you are talking about the dictators during the cold war there were two types theirs and ours. If you did not pick a side you were smashed by both sides. As soon as we did not need them any more we cut them loose. The result of this is that there are 2 communist countries left in the world and how many free nations?