...only this time, instead of Nick Cage and John Travolta, it’s Dubya and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. After watching Iran’s president being interrogated by Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes last night, we now understand why Georgie-Pooh has declined the request for a debate.
1. He has already brainwashed the media to accept his perspective and voice his viewpoints for him (We were already aware of this in general, but very alarmed to see it on 6o Minutes).
2. If they were to debate one-on-one, it’s pretty clear that Mahmoud would tear his ass up.
We say, let the man speak. And if the words do turn out to be idiotic, such as denying the Holocaust again, let the man dig his own grave. But this wagon-circling let’s-hold-everyone-responsible-for-9/11 blather we hear being trumpeted by politicians and the media alike is sickening.
For the sake of fairness (or handicapping), we’ll give the less articulate one the final word. These, according to Pelley, were Dubya’s exact words for his bearded rival:
You've made terrible choices for your people. You've isolated your nation. You've taken a nation of proud and honorable people and made your country the pariah of the world.
We can’t help but feel, of course, that he might just as well have been talking to himself.
The full interview is available at http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3289581n&channel=/elements/2007/09/23/60minutes/videoarchive3289424_1_videosection_page.shtml
