"The enormous stupidity of their undertaking"

Time magazine gave their January 2, 193l "Man of the Year" Adolph Hitler a bloody crossout fourteen years later on May 7, 1945 (above left), when the cover story reported that "Adolf Hitler as a political force had been expunged," but we had to supply our own crossout for their latest fawning cover of the breathless MSM's dazzling bauble of the moment (above right). They preferred to portray Iranian President Ahmadinejad as a Christ-like figure à la El Greco (see below). 'Don't know who the illustrator is, but he or she did a masterful job of portraying this spawn of the heart of darkness as a persecuted victim. [Editor's note: While we stopped reading Time decades ago 'cause we couldn't stand the breezy style and blatant leftward tilt, the online operation nevertheless has the most aweseome archives.]

"EXCLUSIVE: Face to face with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the man whose swagger is stirring fears of war with the US," subheads Time magazine's society-columnoid mano-a-mano interview of you-know-who by a clueless, all-about-me leftoid wonder called Scott MacLeod, who imagines himself an Oriana Fallaci for our times, asserting that "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn't one for ceremony." Huh?  Before we move on, two things. Ceremony is where human assertion of honor is at, and Ahmadinejad, who has his hand on the pulse of the idiotarianat, knows big time -- like Bill Clinton -- that it is all about ceremony. How sad that the Gramscian virus infiltrated and destroyed the national fabric while America slept.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Our Savior on the cover of Time magazine for September 25, 2006 (left) and perhaps the illustrator's inspiration, El Greco's "Via Crucis" -- the Way of the Cross -- (1587-97 Oil on canvas 105 x 67 cm Museu d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona).

"The notion of an unjust concentration of world power in the hands of Western democracies is an old Leftist conceit, and though Ahmadinejad is the president of a pointedly reactionary religious regime, he sounded very much like a 1970s Leftist -- including talk about 'imperialism' that was so old I could practically visualize the gas tank of a Ford Pinto blowing up while he was speaking," writes John Podhoretz, in a rousing NY Post review of Ahmadinejad's UN presentaton. By contrast, GW "emulated Ronald Reagan's enormously important and influential 1988 speech at Moscow State University, where the Gipper spoke plainly to the Russian people about democracy and freedom and how they work":

In this case, Bush tried to speak directly to the ordinary folk throughout the Middle East, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Syria and Iran (and also to those suffering through unimaginable horror in Darfur) about what America really believes, really wants and is really trying to do to help them and the world.

"Having had the experience of living under a communist system, I have learned to spare myself such torture," writes Luc in the comments at Dr. Sanity's latest post, where she comments on "the deeply despicable and nauseatingly hypocritical speech the lying President of Iran delivered at the UN last night." Like her, we tried to listen but had to turn it off:

It was so breathtakingly duplicitous, that I could barely listen to the translation . . . I would have sooner looked at a piece of vile pornography than continue to listen to him.

Only in a world that values nothing would there not be instantaneous outrage at the lies, deceptions and self-serving tripe offered for world consumption by a man who clearly has no conscience and enjoys lying and distorting for the fun of it. How could such a man be given the world stage to spew forth his lies, let alone be feted and honored for them?

Back to Dr. S's commmenter, Luc, who's been there and done that:

What I find more appalling it is the CLOWNS who listen to the speech and then try to comment intelligently on its contents, as if that was possible, and do not seem to realize the enormous stupidity of their undertaking.

I would find quoting the text of the speech and giving the reasons for no accompanying commentary whatsoever the proper way to deal with his speech at the UN.

Common sense is unfortunately all too uncommon.

Comments

[hnav]

great post Ms. Willis...
really enjoyed the red crossout.
thank you...

El Greco's expression lifts mankind, and this monster named Ahmadinejad tears it down.

perhaps, making this even more sad, the liberals who embrace these monsters, in a pathetic blindness...

[Gayle Miller]

The fawning over both Ahmadinejad is exceeded only by the ubiquitous presence of former President Clinton on all the news shows. What is that despicable horndog running for (as if we didn't already know)? I guess, like Jimmy Carter before him, he's trying to redeem his utterly failed and disgraced presidency by good works. What the dictator of Iran is trying to accomplish is also clear - but not Dan Rather, nor Anderson Cooper nor Larry King nor any of the other leftwing nutbar enablers are able to see the Armageddon that awaits, should his regime be permitted to continue.