Mike Wallace Interviews Iran’s President
And finds him to be quite “rational.”
In the interview, Ahmadinejad said of the Bush administration, “see how they talk down to my nation.”
During the midst of the American hostage crisis in 1979, Wallace interviewed Iranian leader Khomeini, locking eyes with the cleric when he asked for a response to Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat calling Khomeini a lunatic.
Of Ahmadinejad, Wallace said, “He’s an impressive fellow, this guy. He really is. He’s obviously smart as hell.”
Wallace said he was surprised to find that the Iranian president was still a college professor who taught a graduate-level course.
“You’ll find him an interesting man,” he said. “I expected more of a firebrand. I don’t think he has the slightest doubt about how he feels … about the American administration and the Zionist state. He comes across as more rational than I had expected.”
Ahmadinejad, of course, is the same leader who routinely questions whether or not the holocaust actually happened in Europe and makes almost weekly calls to wipe Israel off the map.
And Wallace uses the word “rational” to describe this man.
Also, let Wallace’s last comment about “the Zionist state” sink in for a moment. Wallace isn’t quoting Ahamdinejad; those are Wallace’s own words.
Zionist state. Nice, Mike.
Personally, this seems to be about equivalent to some enterprising reporter interviewing Hitler after Munich in the 1930′s, listening to his spiel about how the “Jewry” is destroying Europe and then coming back and telling everyone at home about how Adolf seems pretty “rational.”
The only difference between Hitler and Ahmadinejad being, of course, that Hitler eventually fulfilled his desires to slaughter Jews. So far Ahamdinejad has only been able to accomplish that through proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas.
