22,
August 2006 60 Minutes
Interview Disgraceful RE: Iranian premier
Last
August 13, Mike Wallace, of 60 Minutes, interview with the Iranian Prime
Minister Ahmadinejad was a disgraceful spectacle of media bias pandering
to the growing Islamophobia. Contrast Wallace’s condescending manner and
bellicose demeanor with the fawning behavior when interviewing Israeli
government officials leaves little doubt of lopsided news coverage. Leaders
of all nations should be treated with deference and respect when being
interviewed. Wallace should vent his anger on past US government which
contributed to the Middle East crisis. Perhaps, Wallace is unaware that there
was a functioning democracy in Iran in 1953 which was aborted by a coup
orchestrated by the CIA and MI6 which ousted the highly popular Mossadegh with
the autocratic tyrant, the Shah of Iran. The Shah stifled all dissent and
slaughtered thousands of innocent civilians with weapons supplied by the US.
The Shah’s reign of terror was eventually overthrown by a virulent form of
Islam theocracy which the West so despises but which it unconsciously nurtured.
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