Saturday, April 16, 2005
Freedom For Iran?
Watched a TV commercial today by the "Iran Freedom Foundation". Lots of images of American life (cars, people), what sounds like an Arab war cry and a nuclear explosion thrown into the middle of it. To say that the authors are trying VERY unsubltly to make a connection between the three is an understatement. Real emotionally provocative stuff.
The end portion of the commerical featured a guy named Jerome R Corsi talking about how evil the leaders of Iran are and how they were gearing up to attack, not only Israel, but the American "homeland" too, and how all decent Americans should suport efforts to "let the liberty bell ring out" in Iran. A few years ago I might have taken this guy seriously, but after all of Bush's lies about Iraq's WMDs etc. The whole thing just made me laugh.
I decided to do a little research on this Corsi guy on the web and disovered that he has authored a book entitled "Atomic Iran" which appears to be just an extended version of the emotionally jarring warmongering featured in his TV commericals. A little more digging turned up a media matters report on him which includes a number of quotes attributed to him. Check out these diplomatic offerings:
Not exactly the kind of guy we want speaking for us at the UN, eh? The big problem is that people like Corsi thrive because they promote fear. His book "Atomic Iran" is apparently a besteller on Amazon. Hopefully you only have to sell a few dozen books to get bestseller status on Amazon. The real worrying thing is that his commercials will reach, and somewhat convince, a wider audience. The last thing Americans need is for their government and military to go starting WWIII in the Middle East. The sad thing is that there seems little to stop Bush and Co. At the very least however, the American people should NOT allow themselves to be conned into supporting w
The end portion of the commerical featured a guy named Jerome R Corsi talking about how evil the leaders of Iran are and how they were gearing up to attack, not only Israel, but the American "homeland" too, and how all decent Americans should suport efforts to "let the liberty bell ring out" in Iran. A few years ago I might have taken this guy seriously, but after all of Bush's lies about Iraq's WMDs etc. The whole thing just made me laugh.
I decided to do a little research on this Corsi guy on the web and disovered that he has authored a book entitled "Atomic Iran" which appears to be just an extended version of the emotionally jarring warmongering featured in his TV commericals. A little more digging turned up a media matters report on him which includes a number of quotes attributed to him. Check out these diplomatic offerings:
"RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters -- it all goes together"
"Islam is like a virus -- it affects the mind -- maybe even better as an analogy -- it is a cancer that destroys the body it infects... No doctor would hesitate to eliminate cancer cells from the body."
"Islam is a peaceful religion as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered, and the infidels killed."
Not exactly the kind of guy we want speaking for us at the UN, eh? The big problem is that people like Corsi thrive because they promote fear. His book "Atomic Iran" is apparently a besteller on Amazon. Hopefully you only have to sell a few dozen books to get bestseller status on Amazon. The real worrying thing is that his commercials will reach, and somewhat convince, a wider audience. The last thing Americans need is for their government and military to go starting WWIII in the Middle East. The sad thing is that there seems little to stop Bush and Co. At the very least however, the American people should NOT allow themselves to be conned into supporting w
