Other Presidential Campaigns
Jonah settled in beside me to watch television, and the clicker was flaky so we had a few minutes of Fox were we learned that many fine people were protesting against Ahmadinejad in New York.
So I hopped over to the JPost for what the correct thinking is. The JPost credits these -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the United Jewish Communities, the UJA-Federation New York and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs -- but not the AIPAC, with organizing today's little media blip.
Its election season in Iran, and I'll bet next years membership cost in the American Mathematical Society that in the US/IL press, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be demonized for something he didn't say, but rather quoted, on Qods Day, and Mohammad Khatami will be lionized for saying ... the same thing, not quoting an older icon, and not on Qods Day. I still prefer Khatami, but the degree of dumbness about Dinner Jacket is about as bad as hating Elvis because of his open shirt and dancing while singing are immoral.