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Can You Say Ahmadinejad?
More smartly dressed than Osama Bid Laden, more amenable than Kim Jong-Il and more modest than Sadaam Hussein, America's current public enemy #1 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is currently enjoying a rock-star-like tour through New York City, giving free concerts at Columbia University and the United Nations, and kicking off celebrities from the front pages of the daily papers. Say what you will about his politics, but M-Jad sure knows how to drum up publicity. Paris Hilton, meet your match! Below, some highlights from the Ahmadinejad media frenzy, along with a few clips offering some valuable counterpoint to what's often lost in translation in U.S. coverage of the latest man America loves to hate.
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Iran's Ahmadinejad On Holocaust
This YouTube favorite shows the Iranian President playing fast and loose with MSNBC's Brian Williams on the question of the Holocaust. So is he a crazy Holocaust denier? Maybe. But he's also got some valid points about the many people killed in World War II, and how the Palestinian people are still paying the price. |
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Ahmadinejad at Columbia University
In addition to the wacky things that Iran's President has said, there's a zinger from his recent Columbia University speech, where he says his country doesn't have homosexuals. |
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Ahmadinejad playing football
An avid football fan, this clip shows Pres. Ahmadinejad showing his stuff on the field in a photo-op performance worthy of George W. Bush riding his horse on his Texas ranch. |
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Ahmadinejad and Atom
If you thought Iranians didn't have a sense of humor about their much-disliked president, here's a Farsi-language animated music video about his nuclear ambitions sung to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Beat It." |
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Deal or No Deal
On Current TV's "Super News" animated satire, Pres. M-Jad goes on Howie Mandel's "Deal or No Deal" game show and aims to acquire nuclear weapons in a suitcase. What's perhaps most revealing is the skewering not just of the Iranian president, but of the state of world politics and American television. |
