Say Anything Blog

[...] Well, it’s a childish rhyme, which is pretty much the condescending title that Bill Clinton deserves for this. Where is the country that Bill Clinton, a former president of the United States, feels ideologically most at home?Before you answer, here is the condition that such a country must fulfill: It must hold several consecutive elections that produce 70 percent majorities for “liberals and progressives.”Well, if you thought of one of the Scandinavian countries or, perhaps, New Zealand or Canada, you are wrong.Believe it or not, the country Bill Clinton so admires is the Islamic Republic of Iran.Here is what Clinton said at a meeting on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, just a few weeks ago: “Iran today is, in a sense, the only country where progressive ideas enjoy a vast constituency. It is there that the ideas that I subscribe to are defended by a majority.”Yes, the same World Economic Forum that brought us Easongate. However, unlike Easongate, we have a transcript, video and audio [also here].Basically, Bill Clinton believes that Iran is a model of popular progressive ideas, and Clinton therefores likes Iran. Say Anything calls the statement “perplexing”: If liberals/progressives have gotten 70% of the vote in the last six elections in Iran wouldn’t that imply that they’re in charge of that country? And if they are in charge then they’re the ones who are allowing women to be stoned to death for adultery, clamping down on free speech, supporting terrorism in Iraq and other places and embracing a culture of anti-semitism.Bill Clinton did commit adultery, but obviously he’s overlooked the fact that if he had as few nuts as his terrorism strategy suggested he had, he’d have been stoned. [...]