My immediate assessment of the Washington Post op-ed poll revealing that Ahmadinejad sweep?  Okay, if you take that poll at face value, it would show the electoral trends of what an Ahmadinejad Landslide of that magnitude would look like.  The results that came in from Iran looked nothing like it — the American equivalent of the Iranian election results would include something like McCain winning California.  (The equivalent would be the infamous Dick Morris election projection map detailing an American electorate I don’t recognize.)

I am not an expert on anything, but I basically have no patience for anyone claiming this election as anything short of a Farce.  Something I see in some mainstream news outlets who reported the results with a straight face.  And, in the world of the conspiratorial — here, I lean over to my sidebar outlets of Alex Jones’s “Prison Planet” and “Information Clearing House” — we see what is, for them, a pretty understable diorientation — understandable because they’d like to put this on the vast conspiracy that runs all of our lives, and also need to show a media manipulation of plotting against another nation.   But Information Clearinghouse does us a service with this post. 

So, Andrew Sullivan is the go-to-place for Iranian news coverage.  Not so much because Andrew Sullivan himself is this great Iranian Election Expert — and there are surely more knowledgable commentators to go toward — , but because he’s filling in the role of a Professional Blogger in diligently aggregating a vast supply of media items. 
The Revolution will be Twittered.

The cable news networks displayed their weakness.  Fox News is hard-wired to pump out a steady stream of Identity Conservative Republican propaganda, agenda to the narrow task of defeating the Obama Administration and the Democrats.  MSNBC has gone to counter-programming of liberal commentators, and at any rate apparently can’t get out of a weekend programming of documentaries.  CNN would have been well advised to have recognized the moment and at least flip the switch to their International station for the crucial Friday overnight.

They have steeped themselves in the Washington-based Donkey versus Elephant Game, a money saving and highly profitable entertainment outlet which ordinarily works out well enough.  But in times like these, and on this developing topic, they become useless.  Not least of all because the donkey — elephant game is beside the point — a larger and more meaningful context is needed.

Bill Kristol states it thusly.  Though, here, the problem lies with his sentence:  But he is our president.  Unless he means to extrapulate this to “our” as in to escort him to hamper him to the national realm and not the center of and be all of all International Activity which present itself with many an actor.

Which is to say, 75 percent of an article summarizing the events coming out of The Nation and The Weekly Standard should be roughly identical (not that they will be), in terms of throwing rhetorical support behind the will of the democratic-yearning masses and support in invalidating an invalid election.  Some of the other 25 percent would deviate with, for instance, The Weekly Standard throwing jabs at Jimmy Carter in 1979 and The Nation putting it in the historical context of the 1953 CIA – backed Coup.  After that article, the next article in the two publications would have to differ.

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