{"id":4143,"date":"2009-06-15T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2009-06-16T13:12:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:12:30","slug":"iran-is-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/06\/15\/iran-is-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran is on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

My immediate assessment of the Washington Post op-ed poll revealing that Ahmadinejad<\/span> sweep<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, if you take that poll at face value, it would show the electoral trends of what an Ahmadinejad\u00c2\u00a0Landslide\u00c2\u00a0of that magnitude\u00c2\u00a0would look like.\u00c2\u00a0 The results that came in from Iran looked nothing like it — the American equivalent of the Iranian election results would\u00c2\u00a0include something like McCain winning California.\u00c2\u00a0 (The equivalent\u00c2\u00a0would be\u00c2\u00a0the infamous Dick Morris election projection map<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0detailing an American electorate I don’t recognize.)<\/p>\n

I am not an expert on anything, but I basically have no patience for anyone claiming this election as anything short of a Farce.\u00c2\u00a0 Something I see in some mainstream news outlets who reported the results with a straight face.\u00c2\u00a0 And, in the world of the conspiratorial — here, I lean over to my sidebar outlets of Alex Jones’s “Prison Planet”<\/a> and “Information Clearing House” <\/a>— we see what is, for them, a pretty understable diorientation — understandable because they’d like to put this on the vast conspiracy that runs all of our lives, and also\u00c2\u00a0need to show\u00c2\u00a0a media manipulation of plotting against another nation.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0But Information Clearinghouse does us a service with this post<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, Andrew Sullivan is the go-to-place for Iranian news coverage<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Not so much because Andrew Sullivan himself is this great Iranian Election Expert — and there are surely more knowledgable commentators to go toward — , but because he’s filling in the role of a Professional Blogger in diligently aggregating a vast supply of media items.\u00c2\u00a0
\nThe Revolution will be Twittered.<\/p>\n

The cable news networks displayed their weakness.\u00c2\u00a0 Fox News is hard-wired to pump out a steady stream of Identity Conservative Republican propaganda, agenda to the narrow task of defeating the Obama Administration and the Democrats.\u00c2\u00a0 MSNBC has gone to counter-programming of liberal commentators, and at any rate apparently can’t get out of a weekend programming of documentaries.\u00c2\u00a0 CNN would have been well advised to have recognized the moment and at least flip the switch to their International station for the crucial Friday overnight.<\/p>\n

They have steeped themselves in the Washington-based Donkey versus Elephant Game, a money saving and highly profitable entertainment outlet which ordinarily works out well enough.\u00c2\u00a0 But in times like these, and on this developing\u00c2\u00a0topic, they become useless.\u00c2\u00a0 Not least of all because the donkey — elephant game is beside the point — a larger and more meaningful context is needed.<\/p>\n

Bill Kristol states it thusly<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, here, the problem lies with his sentence:\u00c2\u00a0 But he is our president.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>Unless he means to extrapulate this to “our” as in to escort him to\u00c2\u00a0hamper him to the\u00c2\u00a0national realm and not the center of and be all of all International Activity which present itself with many an actor.<\/p>\n

Which is to say, 75 percent of an article summarizing the events coming out of The Nation and The Weekly Standard should be roughly identical (not that they will be<\/em><\/strong>), in terms of throwing rhetorical support behind the will of the\u00c2\u00a0democratic-yearning\u00c2\u00a0masses\u00c2\u00a0and support in invalidating an invalid election.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Some of the other\u00c2\u00a025 percent would deviate with, for instance, The Weekly Standard\u00c2\u00a0throwing jabs\u00c2\u00a0at Jimmy Carter in 1979 and The Nation putting it in the historical context of the 1953 CIA – backed Coup.\u00c2\u00a0 After that article, the next article in the two publications would have to differ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My immediate assessment of the Washington Post op-ed poll revealing that Ahmadinejad sweep?\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, if you take that poll at face value, it would show the electoral trends of what an Ahmadinejad\u00c2\u00a0Landslide\u00c2\u00a0of that magnitude\u00c2\u00a0would look like.\u00c2\u00a0 The results that came in from Iran looked nothing like it — the American equivalent of the Iranian election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}