President Ahmadinejad 1, Katie Couric 0
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091001/wl_ynews/ynews_wl936
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"Last week, Katie Couric had the tables turned on her. During an interview with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Couric asked about Neda Soltan, the Iranian female who was shot and killed by Iranian security back in June.
After expressing his regret for the loss of life, Mr. Ahmadinejad pulled out a photo of another woman. He showed it to Ms. Couric and asked if she knew who the woman was. Couric said she didn't, and that's when Ahmadinejad pounced.
Ahmadinejad explained that the woman in the photo is Marwa Ali El-Sherbini. She was stabbed to death in a German court by a neo-Nazi. The Iranian president then asked why the death of Ms. El-Sherbini wasn't being publicized by the media in the same way as Neda's. Ahmadinejad "suggested that the western media — who turned Neda into a martyr — ignored Marwa's story."
The interview between Couric and Ahmadinejad took place last week, but the searches really started to pop this morning. Web lookups on "marwa ali el sherbini" and "who is marwa ali el sherbini" both spiked into the thousands.
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Manatee_man
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WOW. He does kinda have a point though....
- 2 years ago
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Manatee_man
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J_Jammer [removed]
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Manatee_man:
He may have a point but making it instead of answering the question shows how he likes to dazzle you with one hand while he kills with the other.
- 2 years ago
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freecrack
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the media in your opinion may have overhyped neda but remember the myanmar stuff too.
is the us picking on iran or is it maybe anytime civil disobedience is treated as militantly our sensabilities are offended.
dont get me wrong i know our cops and swat team do excessively violent shit too but when a non partisan civilian is shot during a peacefull protest its news.
i magine the news if they did report on every racist crime in the world it would be rediculous we would never get the weather report. - 2 years ago
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freecrack
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maasanova
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I'm not defending him, I am merely agreeing with his totally accurate assertions about how the US media over-hyped Neda's death for their political purposes while a hate crime goes almost completely unmentioned.
And also J_Jammer, a quick Google search concludes that Ahmadinejad did in fact order an investigation into the death of Neda.
"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked Iran's cleric-controlled judiciary on Monday to investigate the killing of Neda Agha Soltan, who became an icon of Iran's ragtag opposition after gruesome video of her bleeding to death on a Tehran street was circulated worldwide."
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maasanova
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maasanova:
I like actions more than words. Asking and making sure it gets done is two different things.
One is for show...the other is actually an ounce of care.
- 2 years ago
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J_Jammer [removed]
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J_Jammer [removed]
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He didn't answer the question. He deflected. When you have to turn things on the person instead of answer the question, you are hiding something and you're not to be trusted.
He has a liar's smile.
- 2 years ago
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maasanova
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Well at least the New Guinea protestors was covered here on Current. I don't remember seeing anything about Marwa Ali El-Sherbini, but there were countless posts about Neda.
By the way it wasn't like Ahmadinejad killed Neda personally or ordered her hit. That would be like blaming Obama for the G20 protestors who were assaulted by government thugs-it wasn't his fault personally.
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maasanova
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maasanova:
But he doesn't speak out against it. He accepts it and that makes him seem like it's ok that someone died.
No one got into trouble. There was no inquiry.
Why are you defending his disgusting behavior?
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freecrack
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hes a master at the soft sell and deflection thats what he does.
the reason neda is far more important is that racist radicals kill people everyday everywhere but neda was an innocent bystander killed by a govt who wishes to be seen as peace full.
the sooner neda is forgotten the sooner the global community ceases to see irans govt as a threatening regim. - 2 years ago
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freecrack
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freecrack:
uh, nice try but no. one innocent human life is not more valuable than the next.
where's the world's indignation for the nearly 160 protesters killed by drunken police in guinea a couple of days ago?
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