Ahmadinejad: Between You, Me and the Teleprompters

Does anyone like Ahmadinejad?

Wow – I knew Canada had boycotted the speech and I knew some people walked out on Ghadaffi, but I no idea Ahmadinejad spoke to a mostly empty chamber. The picture is stunning.

Did they leave the lights on?

A very different image that what one saw from the “center field camera” on CSPAN.

Here is an excerpt of what he said:
“It is no longer possible to bring a country under military occupation in the name of fight against terrorism and drug trafficking while the production of illicit drugs has multiplied, terrorism has widened its dimensions and has tightened its grips, thousands of innocent people have been killed, injured or displaced, infrastructures have been destroyed and regional security has been seriously jeopardized; and those who have created the current disastrous situation continue to blame others. How you can talk about friendship and solidarity with other nations while you expand your military bases in different parts of the world including in Latin America. This situation cannot continue. It is all the more impossible to advance expansionistic and inhuman policies on the basis of militaristic logic.”

Yes, and for all the nonsense that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spouts he occasionally defines certain realities very accurately.
Our Prime Minister Stephen Harper would not want to contemplate this statement in view of his past devotion to GWB and his present efforts in currying favor with Obama.
Out of sight out of mind protects many from some uncomfortable realities I guess.

I’m trying to understand the meaning of the one person at each table visible in this photo.
Did each delegation have to leave one person present for procedural reasons or something?

Please don’t defend someone who is a rabid Holocaust denier. That’s inexcusable.
It’s crazy to me that people will defend someone like this just because they agree with them on something. This seems to be one of the reasons that Pat Buchanan is still paid by MSNBC for his “opinion.” And it is also a good example of the way morality is getting twisted-up these days. It’s like saying Mussolini made the trains run on time.
They were full of skeletons, metaphorically speaking, so it hardly matters that they were on time.

oh no a holocost denier. so what?

What’s most distressing about the walkout (actually about the media’s coverage of it) is that the Holocaust denial story completely overshadowed — in fact eliminated from the media conversation — the fact that Ahmadinejad is, for all intents and purposes, the orchestrator of a coup d’etat, a military/paramilitary takeover of Iran that took even the religious clerical leadership by surprise.
Our inane and yellow journalism complex lost the story for the hype. Again.