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Moonbat Friday

I ran into this post on Wizbang this morning that pointed out how lefty blogger Matthew Yglesias believes Mahmoun (sic) Ahmadinejad reminds him of twenty something hipster.

I keep talking about this with people in real life, but it deserves a blog mention as well — Mahmoun Ahmadinejad has a pretty sweet hipster style. It all starts with a beard not unlike the one I and many of my twentysomething male friends sport. But it goes deeper. The man went without a tie to address the UN General Assembly. And I was in a bar where the TV was showing his interview with Anderson Cooper (it’s DC, these things happen) and while there was no sound, he certainly looked witty and charming. There was also this clip of him walking down some hallway shooting the shit with Kofi Annan. It’s like diplomacy! Bush should try it. One gets the sense that he’s getting his stody red tie-wearing ass kicked this session by sundry third world goons and it’s really not a proud moment for the United States.

What a perfect installment for Moonbat Friday. So I took the bait and went to the comment section of the hipster lefty blog. Well, let’s thank God that those on the left have blogs. It brings out the best in lefty nutjob stardom for the entire world to see as demonstrated in the Yglesias comment section (excerpted below).

What are Ahmadinejad’s politics, Petey?

I kinda seem him as the rock that broke the nose of the most idiotic leader our country has had.

I think he also reminded Israelis that they can’t keep the doors to their Middle East Disneyland open if they keep electing mediocrities to run it…is General Tummy Ache still in charge of the “People’s” Army, btw?
Posted by: monkyboy on September 21, 2006 05:24 AM

My feeling is that anyone being smeared by the morons who got us into Afghanistan and Iraq can’t be all that bad…
Posted by: monkyboy on September 21, 2006 06:49 AM

Bush looked a lot crazier and scarier than Ahmadinejad. The guy just doesn’t come across as the scary lunatic the neocons are trying to portray him as.

I agree that Chavez has an entertaining style. Speaking at the UN, he dramatically said that “el diablo” had been at the lecturn the day before, crossed himself, then said he could still smell the sulphur. It was hilarious. Also, I read an article about him a while back in the Atlantic. If I remember correctly, it was mentioned that Chavez sometimes refers to Bush as the devil, but usually just calls him shithead.
Posted by: Jim W on September 21, 2006 09:40 AM

I’m with Petey on all points. Chavez has (mostly) good politics and (mostly) solid democratic credentials. Ahmadinejad, not so much. Altho, one shouldn’t confuse him with the Iranian state in general. No question that for ordinary Iranians it’s a vast improvement over the previous setup and over what most of the third world has to live with.

That said, it’s natural, reasonable, and maybe even helpful that as the US strikes a more belligerent atitude in the world, other countries respond in kind. With both their neighbors invaded and occupied, the US nosiing about regime change and establishing quite clearly that the dipmlomatic rules offer no protection, Iran would be nuts not to be pursuing a nuclear deterrent.
Posted by: lemuel pitkin on September 21, 2006 12:30 PM

It goes on but you get the point. Unfortunately there is nothing lighthearted about a madman who wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. As for Petey, the failure to see the difference between a nuclear deterrent and a nuclear threat demonstrates the sort of ignorance that underscores why we can’t have Democrats running the country. It’s Mahmoud btw.