(Shrug)
From the give credit where credit is due department, I should have mentioned that I thought Pelly did a fairly respectable job in interviewing Ahmadinejad. at least, I doubt any of the mainstream media could have done a great deal better.
There’s been a fair amount of chatter, lately, about a comparison between Iran and its leadership, and Germany and its leadership, post 1939. The question that occurs to me within that context, is whether not a reporter interviewing Hitler would have changed the course of history. The answer, of course, is “no”. We find, if we look into history, Hitler as evasive answers, his general attitude, and most specifically his lies, tell us, that no matter what was said, what was done was not about to change.
Ahmadinejad’s situation is similar. His evasive answers, his general attitude, and his lies are of a kind with his constant regurgitation of the leftist Mantra: politically motivated, And treacherous in the extreme. Like Hitler before him, his path, apparently, has been set in stone. As a result, there are many people, certainly not any reporter on the planet, who is going to alter the course by asking the “hard questions”. As such, no fault lies with Pelly for any of it, per se’. please note, that this is about as strong a defense as I have ever mounted for a mainstream media reporter.
This inability to change , in the end, is why a group of leftists at Columbia university patting themselves on the back for asking Ahmadinejad the “hard questions” isn’t worth much; you’re not going to change as path by doing that, regardless of your intent.
I recognize that these are dire predictions. But there it is.
Tags: iran, War on American culture
