Comments on: A note on Ahmadinejad and historical truth http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/16/a_note_on_ahmadinejad_and_hist/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:59:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ken Moyes http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/16/a_note_on_ahmadinejad_and_hist/#comment-1351 Ken Moyes Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:59:49 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/16/a-note-on-ahmadinejad-and-historical-truth/#comment-1351 Mahmūd Ahmadinejād is not interested in truth. He only wishes to create his own version of events for his own purpose. Twist the truth often enough and people who are not paying attention will believe it. If I were elected President, I would meet with him in my first month of office. I would lean over at a quiet time and whisper in his ear - "You do realize that while our soldiers and marines are quite stretched in Iraq and Afghanistan, our Navy and Air Force are not doing much and would love the opportunity to visit your country." <a href="http://brokengovernment.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://brokengovernment.wordpress.com</a> Mahmūd Ahmadinejād is not interested in truth. He only wishes to create his own version of events for his own purpose. Twist the truth often enough and people who are not paying attention will believe it. If I were elected President, I would meet with him in my first month of office. I would lean over at a quiet time and whisper in his ear – “You do realize that while our soldiers and marines are quite stretched in Iraq and Afghanistan, our Navy and Air Force are not doing much and would love the opportunity to visit your country.”
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]]> By: Alo Kievalar http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/16/a_note_on_ahmadinejad_and_hist/#comment-1350 Alo Kievalar Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:26:40 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/16/a-note-on-ahmadinejad-and-historical-truth/#comment-1350 The trouble with Ahmadinajad is that he doesn’t wear a tie…..at all….of any kind…ever. Go ahead and google him and see if you can find a picture of him wearing one……I’ll save you the trouble…you can’t. (He also doesn’t shave…..ever). (I wonder about bathing…but some things are best passed by quickly unnoticed ). In fact, he looks like your average corner fruit-stand seller found in any Middle Eastern city or some kinda “souk wallah” ferociously hawking his wares to curious tourists who peer at him in admiration of his “authenticity” and “earthiness” and so on. The problem with the Farsis is that they really should have stuck to weaving rugs and carpets. No one has ever surpassed them in this art form. But when it comes to atomic reactors, well, it’s all somehow so silly. By the way, good ol’ Mahmoud has his own website/blog. You can check it out at: <a href="http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/</a> (You’ll notice that even here, the tie is missing). He even has a little piece about Christmas which is an exemplar of written English gone berserk. Rudyard ! Rudyard, where are you when we need you? The trouble with Ahmadinajad is that he doesn’t wear a tie…..at all….of any kind…ever.

Go ahead and google him and see if you can find a picture of him wearing one……I’ll save you the trouble…you can’t.

(He also doesn’t shave…..ever). (I wonder about bathing…but some things are best passed by quickly unnoticed ).

In fact, he looks like your average corner fruit-stand seller found in any Middle Eastern city or some kinda “souk wallah” ferociously hawking his wares to curious tourists who peer at him in admiration of his “authenticity” and “earthiness” and so on.

The problem with the Farsis is that they really should have stuck to weaving rugs and carpets. No one has ever surpassed them in this art form. But when it comes to atomic reactors, well, it’s all somehow so silly.

By the way, good ol’ Mahmoud has his own website/blog. You can check it out

at: http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/

(You’ll notice that even here, the tie is missing). He even has a little piece about Christmas which is an exemplar of written English gone berserk.

Rudyard ! Rudyard, where are you when we need you?

]]> By: LSD http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/16/a_note_on_ahmadinejad_and_hist/#comment-1349 LSD Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:02:48 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/16/a-note-on-ahmadinejad-and-historical-truth/#comment-1349 Strong sentiment persuades an arrangement of facts that will support any grievance, and a piori conviction has always, and will always play a part in scientific method. This garbage, however, is deliberate confusion that is meant to deliver political benefit. The statement is so absurd that it is difficult to counter it in a way that attracts equal attention and for that reason it's effective. -Maybe the best way to deal with this statement is to place it alongside the declaration of the curious mystery pertaining to the complete absence of homosexuals in Iran. Strong sentiment persuades an arrangement of facts that will support any grievance, and a piori conviction has always, and will always play a part in scientific method. This garbage, however, is deliberate confusion that is meant to deliver political benefit. The statement is so absurd that it is difficult to counter it in a way that attracts equal attention and for that reason it’s effective.

-Maybe the best way to deal with this statement is to place it alongside the declaration of the curious mystery pertaining to the complete absence of homosexuals in Iran.

]]> By: william http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/16/a_note_on_ahmadinejad_and_hist/#comment-1348 william Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:07:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/16/a-note-on-ahmadinejad-and-historical-truth/#comment-1348 As I intimated in your last post, the left is repulsed as much by the sight of a bow tie as they are by the sight of a history book. I am constantly in awe of the total disregard of my colleagues concern for facts or truth at the college I teach at. As I intimated in your last post, the left is repulsed as much by the sight of a bow tie as they are by the sight of a history book. I am constantly in awe of the total disregard of my colleagues concern for facts or truth at the college I teach at.

]]> By: abe http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/16/a_note_on_ahmadinejad_and_hist/#comment-1347 abe Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:42:27 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/16/a-note-on-ahmadinejad-and-historical-truth/#comment-1347 Ahmadinejad’s comments are reprehensible. Your bow tie is an affront to good taste. Ahmadinejad’s comments are reprehensible. Your bow tie is an affront to good taste.

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