Webloggin » Dan Rather, Ooops Mike Wallace Interviews Iranian Dictator

Well actually the guy is not really a dictator; he just acts like one. In reality you are elected in Iran as long as a group of senior clerics approve your nomination.

However that is not what I am here to discuss.

I think the Mike Wallace interview is more of the same and I’m sick of reading or hearing about it. I used to like Mike Wallace but this is hardly the swan song he needed. So hopefully Wednesday it will be all over because the whole interview is airing on C-Span tonight for some inexplicable reason.

CBS and 60 minutes “get the scoop” by sending in another “has been” reporter to drum up ratings with another interview of a murdering dictator who launches into an anti-Bush tirade. Everybody on the left is cheering (quietly at home).

My synopisis of what Mike Wallace was trying to get across: “That good looking guy, what’s his name? Oh yes, that guy Ahmadinejad is not such a bad guy after all; and he’s easy on the eyes. Did I say that already?”.

Personally I think the guy looks like any given villian from the Bruce Willis Die Hard series of movies. But that is just me.

Speaking of people who don’t have a clue, DarkSyde over at Daily Kos, or should I say the Ned Lamont power base, launches into a statistically I am more at risk “driving across a set of railroad tracks and down the interstate smoking a cigarette in the rain” than getting killed by terrorists screed. Then he gives the liberal analysis of the al Qaeda threat vs. that of Hitler, Stalin, etc.

The Cold-war is just one of many threats we’ve faced that exceed the danger posed to America from Osama bin Laden by orders of magnitude. We also survived Hitler, Imperial Japan, the Kaiser, a Civil War, and the British Empire–the latter one twice by the way–just to name a few.

In that historical context, reading or hearing a bunch of yelping GOP crybabies incessantly screeching in craven horror that Al Qaeda is the worst, gosh-darn biggest bad-ass threat we’ve ever faced is, frankly, an act that has grown tired and embarrassing. And when they yammer, time and time again, that it’s not enough for them to be quivering under their beds, they insist the entire country crawl under there and obsess along with them, while they lay in fetal position swaddled in their faded George Bush security blanket squawking in fear, it’s enough to make Burt the Turtle recoil in disgust.

Here’s a message for both our homegrown Neoconservative, bloggy, gutless wonders and the Jihadi nutcases overseas: I grew up in the cold-war, my parents went through WW2 for crying out loud. We are not paralyzed with fear over Osama. Despite your best efforts, I’m not obsessed with terrorism. Sheesh, I barely even think about it. I face bigger statistical risks, in every way, every day, and on every scale, just driving across a set of railroad tracks and down the interstate smoking a cigarette in the rain, and I don’t worry much about that either.

And if you want me to be afraid for my very nation’s survival, Jebus H Christ, you damn well better be able to wave around a threat considerably more convincing than a rag-tag group of zealots that shit in caves and beg other people to put on suicide belts and pull a rip cord detonator. - DarkSyde at Lost Kos

But wait, I thought the left was obsessed with finding Bin Laden. Oh wait, that was yesterday’s rant. Are we to expect these people to lead the nation? I think not.

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