September 25, 2006

Name That World Leader: Special Media Paranoia Edition

Carroll Andrew Morse

Here are two quotes from recent media interviews. One was spoken by current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the other by former U.S President Bill Clinton. See if you can guess which quote came from which leader.

Here's quote #1...

I always get these clever little political yields where they ask me one-sided questions....And it always comes from one source.
And here's quote #2...
Are you asking the questions that are on your mind or questions that are given to you by others?
Perhaps the sometimes inexplicable affinity between the American left and international totalitarianism comes from the conspiratorial worldview that both movements share.

Answers: The first quote is from an interview conducted with President Clinton by Chris Wallace on Fox News. The second quote is from an interview with President Ahmadinejad conducted by Anderson Cooper on CNN.

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"Perhaps the sometimes inexplicable affinity between the American left and international totalitarianism comes from the conspiratorial worldview that both movements share."

Or maybe it comes from the fact that both American Democrats and International Totalitarianists have the same core beliefs that captialism is bad and anyone that questions their motives is an enemy?

Posted by: Greg at September 25, 2006 9:26 AM

The truly disturbing recent quote should be: “It's just -- I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective."
-President Bush

"unacceptable to think" that expresses the current administrations policy pretty well.

I saw the entire interview with President Clinton and that quote is completely out of context.

But hey if it makes you feel good to be a neo-conservative--whatever makes you feel good.

Posted by: Ted at September 25, 2006 9:30 AM

GREAT POST!

In their own words...

Enough said

Posted by: johnb at September 25, 2006 9:37 AM

Ted,

1. The quote is not out of context. Clinton was even more paranoid in another quote, when he said Chris Wallace had to "move his bones" (I assume he meant "make his bones"; so who does Clinton think that Chris Wallace has to prove himself to?) but it was too ungrammatical to be used in the above post.

2. What exactly do you think a neo-conservative is?

Posted by: Andrew at September 25, 2006 9:46 AM

"What exactly do you think a neo-conservative is?"

I believe the answer that libs are hesitant to use, but truly mean is "One of those Jew-lovers who's willing to take this country to war to protect a piece of land the Jews stole and we don't care about."

Posted by: Greg at September 25, 2006 10:45 AM

One of the reasons Democrats have lost elections recently is because they fail to show passion in their arguments, like they're afraid anything reasonably thoughtful or slightly controversial will be used in an attack ad.
Maybe it's only because he's done as an elected official, but Bill Clinton shows no such fear.

Posted by: Rhody at September 25, 2006 10:58 AM

"Maybe it's only because he's done as an elected official, but Bill Clinton shows no such fear."

Yeah, but he also showed what's WRONG with Dems in general. They never actually ACCOMPLISH anything, but hey howdy do they 'try'. Just like Bill 'never tried harder in my life' to get the middle-class tax cuts.

To twist the phrase, The road to lost elections is paved with good intentions.

Posted by: Greg at September 25, 2006 11:36 AM

"Noting that evidence-gathering for the assessment had been concluded in February, and that the report itself had been finished two months later, Mr. Bush said: “Here we are, coming down the homestretch of an election campaign and it’s on the front page of your newspapers. Isn’t that interesting?”" From the NYT today concerning President Bush and the report that the war on Iraq is fueling terrorism.

Coming from President Bush, should we start jumping down his throat for accusing the media of being liberal and trying to effect the election towards the democrats?

Posted by: George at September 26, 2006 5:32 PM