Comments on: Gary Sick Is Living Up To His Name http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/06/13/gary-sick-is-living-up-to-his-name/ Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:59:36 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: macaquerman http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/06/13/gary-sick-is-living-up-to-his-name/#comment-10821 macaquerman Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:14:11 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/06/13/gary-sick-is-living-up-to-his-name/#comment-10821 <p>I guess that the people in the street aren’t quite the people who hold power in Iran. You might consider that those folk are a tad different than those on tv.<br /> The people holding power in Iran don’t really need neo-con propaganda to paint them. They do a fine job of that themselves every time they kill people for having adulterous or homosexual sex or when they imprison their citizens for having religious convictions that don’t suit their masters.</p> I guess that the people in the street aren’t quite the people who hold power in Iran. You might consider that those folk are a tad different than those on tv.
The people holding power in Iran don’t really need neo-con propaganda to paint them. They do a fine job of that themselves every time they kill people for having adulterous or homosexual sex or when they imprison their citizens for having religious convictions that don’t suit their masters.

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/06/13/gary-sick-is-living-up-to-his-name/#comment-10819 Phoenix Woman Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:17:01 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/06/13/gary-sick-is-living-up-to-his-name/#comment-10819 <p>Oh, the news media was already hammering away at Point Number Three this evening.</p> <p>However, the fact that there are massive opposition-led protests and that the opposition is quite Westernized-looking — as our TV networks have been showing us — works against the neocon plan to nuke Iran until it glows. The neocons want us to think of the Iranians as subhumans with whom we have nothing in common and who therefore deserve a fiery death. It’s actually harder for them to sell that POV when our TV screens are showing us people who would not look at all out of place in any American town or city.</p> Oh, the news media was already hammering away at Point Number Three this evening.

However, the fact that there are massive opposition-led protests and that the opposition is quite Westernized-looking — as our TV networks have been showing us — works against the neocon plan to nuke Iran until it glows. The neocons want us to think of the Iranians as subhumans with whom we have nothing in common and who therefore deserve a fiery death. It’s actually harder for them to sell that POV when our TV screens are showing us people who would not look at all out of place in any American town or city.

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