YAWNNNN:
CBS takes the opportunity to engage in some BDS inspired Bush bashing:
Via Gateway Pundit: CBS: “Meet Iran’s George W. Bush”
CBS republishes vile New Republic article–
Meet Iran’s George W. Bush
This story is from June 8th, and does a fair job introducing readers to the candidates. But the dopey comparison of Ahmadinejad to George W. Bush is a weak, cheap shot.
Oh hey!
What do you know? Another idiotic comparison, this time from Excitable Andy writing in the once proud periodical, Atlantic monthly:
Graphic swiped from AoSHQ
Via RS McCain: Karl Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Rove?
Do the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly have no shame at all?
Ahmadinejad’s bag of tricks is eerily like that of Karl Rove – the constant use of fear, the exploitation of religion, the demonization of liberals, the deployment of Potemkin symbolism like Sarah Palin . . .
Good lord, he even found a way to involve Sarah Palin in his deranged delusion, but it took some doing. Sarah Palin as Potemkin symbolism? Yeah, ooooookay.
And then there’s this imbecility, caught by William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection:
Ahmadinejad Stole The Election, Just Like Bush
But this post at Crooks and Liars caught my eye:
“Isn’t rioting in the streets the appropriate reaction when your country is taken over through election fraud? What’s the alternative, to reward theft? We’ve already seen what that did here!”
You know? Since the left is getting its kicks comparing Ahmadinejad to Bushies…can we conservatives play that game, too? I bet I can name somebody Ahmadinejad reminds me of, if I think about it for a minute.
Let’s see….skinny, narcissistic, ‘on the outs’ with Israel, dyes hair, will say and do anything to win, ruining the economy…anyone have any ideas?
So, has anybody figured out what he means by “Potemkin symbolism?”
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R.S.McCain thought long and hard about it, and came up with this:
1. He evidently aims to denounce a certain style of Republican political rhetoric, and grasps randomly to pluck the names of two pet bogeys — Rove and Palin — out of thin air. To him, these people are indeed merely symbols, and it doesn’t occur to him that there might be anything offensve in mixing them together in a comparison to Mahoud Ahmadinejad.
I think the symbolism is all in Sully’s head.
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How fitting, it’d been 60 years since 1984 was published….I’m just say’n
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What this proves is that NOBODY edits these yellow sheets. Apparently, you can say anything that pops into your fevered little mind, and out the door it goes.
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Ahmadinejad is just organizing the community with his team of supporters. It’s like Chicago with a Persian accent.
Don’t be a hater.
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The Left is like that guy who recently got divorced… he claims he hates his ex, but all he does is talk about her.
How long before they move on? It’s getting embarrassing at this point.
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Who Does Ahmadinejad Remind You Of?
No brainer. Why do you have to ask? Of course, our current president.
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