I have an alternate theory. Piers Morgan is an idiot.
As Ed Driscoll asks, what is it with all this dictator love at CNN?
7 thoughts on “Ahmadinejad is “Charming””
A decade or two ago, NATIONAL REVIEW ran a very informative piece showing the Left’s history of “dictator love” during the past hundred years or so. The NR piece not only showed the well-known examples of all the prominent Lefties who shilled for Stalin in the twenties and thirties, but prominent “progressive” intellectuals who praised Mussolini and even Hitler. I’m old enough to remember all the “enlightened” people on campus who admired Chairman Mao and Uncle Ho and Comrade Fidel, and wore Che t-shirts (a fad that has had some revival in recent years). I forget who wrote the NR article (it may have been Joseph Sobran) but he speculated that the “dictator love” is an expression of American “liberals” overall wimpiness, and their desire to live vicariously through tough guys who wear military uniforms and aren’t afraid to “break a few eggs” (sometimes more than a few) to make a socialist omelette.
I keep finding myself relating this kind of thing to Game, as promulgated by folks like Athol Kay and Roissy.
Ahmadinejad may very well be charming in person, when he’s trying to seduce you. And haven’t lefty/socialist protest rallies traditionally been happy hunting grounds for sexual predators?
I once heard Bill Haast talking about venomous snakes vs non-venomous snakes. He said the deadly ones were ‘charming’. I used to hunt rattlesnakes as a teen, but I never found them charming.
Either way, snakes are snakes, whether they’ve got legs, or just a belly to crawl on. My experience is that you can’t trust them, legs or not, unless you’ve got their heads pinned down. I expect Mr. Haast would agree.
My experience is that you can’t trust them, legs or not, unless you’ve got their heads pinned down.
Yeah that sums it up pretty well. However I would rather have a snake in this position than a free alligator stomping around.
It’s quite possible that Ahmadinejad is in fact charming (Hitler was kind to his dog), and it’s quite possible Morgan is an idiot. The one does not exclude the other.
Well, it does take a certain kind of idiot to give more weight to how charming a bloodthirsty dictator is than to how bloodthirsty and dictatorial he is.
He’s a regular angel of light in a media of angels.
A decade or two ago, NATIONAL REVIEW ran a very informative piece showing the Left’s history of “dictator love” during the past hundred years or so. The NR piece not only showed the well-known examples of all the prominent Lefties who shilled for Stalin in the twenties and thirties, but prominent “progressive” intellectuals who praised Mussolini and even Hitler. I’m old enough to remember all the “enlightened” people on campus who admired Chairman Mao and Uncle Ho and Comrade Fidel, and wore Che t-shirts (a fad that has had some revival in recent years). I forget who wrote the NR article (it may have been Joseph Sobran) but he speculated that the “dictator love” is an expression of American “liberals” overall wimpiness, and their desire to live vicariously through tough guys who wear military uniforms and aren’t afraid to “break a few eggs” (sometimes more than a few) to make a socialist omelette.
I keep finding myself relating this kind of thing to Game, as promulgated by folks like Athol Kay and Roissy.
Ahmadinejad may very well be charming in person, when he’s trying to seduce you. And haven’t lefty/socialist protest rallies traditionally been happy hunting grounds for sexual predators?
I once heard Bill Haast talking about venomous snakes vs non-venomous snakes. He said the deadly ones were ‘charming’. I used to hunt rattlesnakes as a teen, but I never found them charming.
Either way, snakes are snakes, whether they’ve got legs, or just a belly to crawl on. My experience is that you can’t trust them, legs or not, unless you’ve got their heads pinned down. I expect Mr. Haast would agree.
My experience is that you can’t trust them, legs or not, unless you’ve got their heads pinned down.
Yeah that sums it up pretty well. However I would rather have a snake in this position than a free alligator stomping around.
It’s quite possible that Ahmadinejad is in fact charming (Hitler was kind to his dog), and it’s quite possible Morgan is an idiot. The one does not exclude the other.
Well, it does take a certain kind of idiot to give more weight to how charming a bloodthirsty dictator is than to how bloodthirsty and dictatorial he is.
He’s a regular angel of light in a media of angels.