Occupy Wall Street protesters won’t be powwowing with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he arrives in New York for the U.N. General Assembly this week.
“Nobody in their right mind would meet with a fascist dictator like Ahmadenijad,” said Shawn Carrié, a longtime Occupy activist, in a direct message. “I think it’s been blown way out of proportion. There were some emails floating around on listservs about going to *protest* his appearance.”
“Anyway, it must be stressed that no one speaks for OWS,” Carrié said. “Any moron can go say they’re gonna go do something, but to say OWS meets with Ahmadinejad? That’s just ridiculous.”
So who’s saying that Occupy Wall Street was going to meet with Ahmadinejad? Conservatives, that’s who. Why would they be saying that? Because conservatives — even the supposedly “deep-thinker intellectual” types — are boobs. Observe (emphasis mine):
The Iranian news agency Fars News, which has close ties to the government, reported that “Ahmadinejad is also set to meet American university students, artists, intellectuals and elites, including Occupy Wall Street anti-capitalist protestors, despite the ongoing efforts made by the pro-Zionist lobbies to prevent direct link between American people and the Iranian president.”
The Weekly Standard picked up the story this afternoon, writing that the Iranian dictator was going to meet with Occupy activists.
Those would be the super-serious smartypants conservatives I was talking about. The neocons (AKA militaristic “Cheney Republicans”). Turns out the neocon clown car is as packed with gullible fools in 2012 as it was in 2001, when they were absolutely certain Saddam had big piles of WMD.
And you would need to be astonishingly gullible, given Fars News’ track record. In 2007, they reported that squirrels were being used by America and Israel to spy on Iran.
I’m sure the people at The Weekly Standard were incredibly impressed by western squirrel technology, just as they were incredibly shocked that OWS would actually meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
