Re: I need a cable package that includes Al-Jazeera

1

The thing about how he still thinks Saddam is a martyr even though Saddam killed his brother puts even the nuttiest of our wingnuts to shame.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:33 PM
horizontal rule
2

Arabs love Iranians.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:35 PM
horizontal rule
3

Everybody loves Iranians, my dear boy.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:36 PM
horizontal rule
4

Shut up, shoe.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:36 PM
horizontal rule
5

Hell, now I've got that comic strip in my head.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:39 PM
horizontal rule
6

Late in the video, the Saddam supporter says that the people who killed Saddam are the same people who killed [list of names, followed by "and the compatriots of the prophet]. Are all the figures in the list early Sunni martyrs? Is this equivalent to talking about "Christ killing Jews"?


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:42 PM
horizontal rule
7

That dude totally doesn't look Iranian, by the way.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:47 PM
horizontal rule
8

Is this equivalent to talking about "Christ killing Jews"?

It doesn't get brought up much anymore, but Christ was quite the Jew-hunter.


Posted by: Tarrou | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:47 PM
horizontal rule
9

Damned hyphen.


Posted by: Tarrou | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:48 PM
horizontal rule
10

Abu Bakr.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:51 PM
horizontal rule
11

7: what, the camera drops ten pounds from his nose?


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:52 PM
horizontal rule
12

That dude totally doesn't look Iranian, by the way.

Racist.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:53 PM
horizontal rule
13

"Saddam was your master and your father's master" - what's that about?


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 4:55 PM
horizontal rule
14

So be it, Jedi?


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:03 PM
horizontal rule
15

Now I'm wondering if Fox News stole its style from that program, in the way that we regularly remake British and Dutch TV shows over here.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:08 PM
horizontal rule
16

"Saddam was your master and your father's master" - what's that about?

He's calling the other guy an uppity ingrate for insulting the glorious leader's name.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:09 PM
horizontal rule
17

we regularly remake British and Dutch TV shows over here.

Dutch?


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:10 PM
horizontal rule
18

What's wrong with the Dutch?
Racist.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:12 PM
horizontal rule
19

Dutch: NBC is all hopped up about "Chains of Love," from the same Dutch production company that gave us "Big Brother"

I think there are others (Deal or No Deal?).


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:14 PM
horizontal rule
20

There are two things I hate: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:14 PM
horizontal rule
21

You're short, aren't you?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:14 PM
horizontal rule
22

Vertically challenged.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:17 PM
horizontal rule
23

Cala fought the the height and the height won.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:22 PM
horizontal rule
24

What's wrong with the Dutch?

The little wooden shoes fill me with rage.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:23 PM
horizontal rule
25

Thw Swedes are the evil ones with their pop music.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:24 PM
horizontal rule
26

Marc Lynch has some background on the exchange here.


Posted by: strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:27 PM
horizontal rule
27

That video clip could have been approved if the Iranian dude had returned to the show with Ted Dibiase and a ring chair.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 5:43 PM
horizontal rule
28

16. the weird part is that he was claiming, i think, that the other guy was Iranian, and Saddam was his master. I didn't know they saw things that way.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 8:29 PM
horizontal rule
29

As in "bow down to your master," not as in "you work for him."


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 8:34 PM
horizontal rule
30

I'm a bit apprehensive now that this is common knowledge which I've just missed out on, but maybe I'm still misreading this: I was thinking that if the pro-Saddam guy thinks the anti-Saddam guy isn't Iraqi, then Saddam shouldn't be his master, unless Saddam was the master of all Iranians. But maybe even though he says the anti-Saddam guy is Persian, because he lives in Iraq, that makes Saddam his master.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 10:06 PM
horizontal rule
31

Someone, somewhere, is trying to parse the O'reilly show in a similar manner, only in farsi.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 01-12-07 11:04 PM
horizontal rule
32

unless Saddam was the master of all Iranians

My interpretation was that, in the mind of Mr. Ravey McShitbag, Saddam was the master of all Iranians thanks to the Iran-Iraq war.


Posted by: Anon | Link to this comment | 01-13-07 4:19 PM
horizontal rule
33

On the other hand, if we take Mr. Ravey's raving at face value, then we should *definitely* just hand Iraq over to the Iranians, on the ground that the other guy was comparatively sane.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-13-07 4:50 PM
horizontal rule
34

Ogged has never denied that he belives Iraq should be ruled by Iran.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 01-13-07 7:01 PM
horizontal rule