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Ahmadinejad Essentially Tells Wolf Blitzer: ‘Iran Isn’t Gay, But Maybe You Are!’

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Almost four years ago to the day, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak to students at Columbia University, causing a pretty big stir among conservatives who thought it untoward for any U.S. university to give the combative world leader a platform to spew anit-Israeli rhetoric. Turns out, the most notable quote from that event was Ahmadinejad’s assertion that “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon.” During an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer yesterday, Ahmandinejad again plead ignorance to any Iranian gays.

Blitzer was joined by fellow CNN cohorts Piers Morgan and Erin Burnett in interrogating the enigmatic Iranian president, when he made reference the to “no gay” comment that was reported by ABC News back in September of 2007:

When asked about the death penalty Iran imposed on homosexuals, Ahmadinejad discussed the death sentence for drug smugglers. When pushed by moderator and acting dean of the School of International and Public Affairs John Coatsworth, the Iranian president said: “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who has told you we have that.”

Ahmadinejad’s response? “In Iran, homosexuality is looked down upon as an ugly deed.” He then ceded something of a recognition of at least the possibility of Iranian gays adding “Perhaps there are those who engage in such activities and you may be in contact with them and more aware of them.” In other words, Ahmadinejad effectively rebuffed Bilitzer by saying “we’re not gay, YOU ARE!”

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  • Anonymous

    I’m rubber you’re glue…

  • Glutton

    Ahmadinejad reminds me so much of Rick Santorum.  It’s quite ironic.  What if Ahmadinejad had a Google problem?

  • Anonymous

    No maybe about Wolfie. He works for CNN. Good zinger, Ahmedinijad!

  • Dr. Phil

    EAT DA POO POO (google it)

  • Anonymous

    Rick has killed, tortured and imprisoned thousands of dissidents? Really? You see… it’s ridiculous when people overreach in attacking Obama just like what you’re doing with Rick Santorum here. It doesn’t work and comes off looking petty and small.

    And Ahmadinejad DOES have a Goggle problem. Just Google him and you find out all the horrendous things he has done to his own people and SAID about others and his complete denial of history. So yes. Ahmadinejad does in fact have a Goggle problem. And to anyone with any perspective he has a bigger Google problem than Rick.

  • Anonymous

    glutton is small, among other things.

  • Glutton

    We have a much larger prison population than Iran in terms of rate and total population.  In fact, we have have a greater prison population/rate than anyone in the world.  The mere mentioning of 236 executions in Texas alone over Rick Parry’s governorship drew large applause.  We are in no position to criticize Iran for its humanitarian record when we don’t have a good one of our own. 

    Amadinejad’s “Google problem” is not a problem at all in Iran.  If you Google his name in Iran, it doesn’t come off as bad at all.  If you Google “Santorum” in Iran, he still comes off as a frothy mixture of fecal and lube as a byproduct of anal sex. 

    Sorry, Ahmadinejad wins. 

  • Glutton

     ”Glutton isn’t small, but you are.”-Ahmadinejad

  • Anonymous

    You said a lot just now. I’m sorry for you. Your perspective on the 2 countries (and people) in question is certainly interesting, but mostly a little chilling.

    wow…….

  • Glutton

     There is absolutely no reason for America to be on top of this list. 

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

    If you don’t see anything wrong with that and support Ron Paul, then I feel sorry for you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SI5NXALBPMGH5A7BLRV6GWW3BM Jim

    Colby…. Your headline is a lie. Ahmadinejad did not say “But maybe you are.” He said that maybe you’ve been in touch with gays in Iran to Blitzer. God, Colby, you are with the worst reporter or you are losing a few marbles.

  • Anonymous

    Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier. and in your own words….. “Sorry, Ahmadinejad wins”.

    nuff said

  • Glutton

    How would Blitzer be in touch with gays in Iran if there are NO gays in Iran?

  • Farnsworth

    Santorum is a memeber of a party that has killed, tortured and imprisoned thousands many of of whom were not even dissidents but entrirely innocent of any crime so yeah, the comparison is apt. He also a member of a party that would outlaw homsexuality given half a chance. So yeah, again, the comparison is apt.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you for making my point and yourself irrelevant.

  • Anonymous

    But his derangement is big!

    Heil Mahmoud!

  • Anonymous

    Good point….

  • JimR

    This little squirt has a lot more problems to worry about than
    letting it be known he is not real crazy about faggots!

  • Glutton

    How does that make him any more or less relevant?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Please remove this…

  • Glutton

    If Ahmadinejad competed in a Republican debate, I bet he would get a lot of cheers for his record on human rights and gay rights.

  • Alice67

    You could be a dear and show Mahmoudy the local haunts .  

  • Farnsworth

    I have no idea what point I’m making for you. What is your point? And Santorum is also a historical revisionist in many, many ways too. I’m not saying one is better than the other because it’s not a contest rather I’m saying that they have plenty in common and none of the comparisons are flattering for either because they’re both awful human beings.

  • Anonymous

    You could just look above, but here I’ll quote it for you….

    “You see… it’s ridiculous when people overreach in attacking Obama just
    like what you’re doing with Rick Santorum here. It doesn’t work and
    comes off looking petty and small.”

  • Farnsworth

    I’m just saying that they have plenty in common. This is a fact and I said no more than that. What did I say that was inaccurate?

  • Anonymous

    When you over-reach no one will listen to you. Everything you say after an absurd statement is moot. You render your own words meaningless when you go so far out of the realm of reality to make a pint or bash someone you don’t agree with.

  • Anonymous

    Look I don’t support Rick or a lot of his views… clearly. But to say he has a lot… or even a little in common with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is simply not true. It’s like when people call Obama a communist, a Muslim, or he wasn’t born in this country. They make themselves irreverent to any rational debate.

  • Anonymous

    Well Wolfy?

    Are you?

  • Farnsworth

    That’s all fair enough but tell me why you believe that the comparisons are inappropriate? Santorum is a rampant homophobe, he is essentially a budding theocrat, he supports rendition and torture before the fact, he is a chickenhawk of the highest order and he is a pathological liar. And this is all while he is just a senator never mind being head of state of the most powerful nation on earth. I honestly shudder to think at what he might be like as president if he ever got the chance.

  • Glutton

     LOL

  • Glutton

    Alice do you like coke?  Perhaps Mahmoudy and I could come over and snort coke off your ass crack? 

  • Anonymous

    Please put back.

  • Anonymous

    OK… you’re going to have to link me to where Rick has…

    Ordered the murder of his own people.
    Made the act of homosexuality punishable by death.
    Made the act of adultery punishable by death (for women).
    Denied the Holocaust.
    Denied the facts of 9/11.
    Called for a complete annihilation of another country.
    Supported genocide.

    You can see where I’m going with this. And is Obama a “chicken hawk” for continuing the 2 wars he inherited and starting a 3rd? He didn’t serve in the military? Or are presidents that didn’t serve and then order military actions “chicken hawks” ONLY if they are Republicans?

  • Farnsworth

    Can I come?

  • Farnsworth

    Obama is a chickenhawk for sure but the rest of your points don’t really mean that much to me. Santorum is a rampant zionist who has suggested that any educational institutions that don’t teach pro-Israeli views should have their funding cut. That is as odious to me as any 9/11 or holocaust denial and in his vehement support for Israel he actively supports the denial of basic democratic rights to millions of people. And Santorum’s homophobia knows no bounds – he is only operating within the structures (albeit on the extremities) of current decorum.

  • Anonymous

    Your whole family is in prison.

  • Anonymous

    You are very familiar with ass cracks no doubt about that.

    Have ya seen the new show “The X-Factor?”

    They have a new show about you called “The Ex-Lax Factor.”

  • Anonymous

    You are very familiar with ass cracks no doubt about that.

    Have ya seen the new show “The X-Factor?”

    They have a new show about you called “The Ex-Lax Factor.”

  • Glutton

    Fine, but since I’m bringing the coke, I get to go first and you will have to paper, rock, scissors Mahmoudy for sloppy seconds.

  • Anonymous

    In which of his orifices?

  • Anonymous

    says the gay boy!

  • Anonymous

    When he talked about 9/11, I thought I was listening to Tony Bennett!

  • Anonymous

    When he talked about 9/11, I thought I was listening to Tony Bennett!

  • Glutton

    Says the hermie.  

  • Glutton

    Have you ever been in a gay gangbang?

  • Alice67

    A simple suggestion that you show Mahmoudy the local gay establishments , and you go all butch .

  • Dean Wormer

    Fat , drunk , and fluffing  is no way to go through life , son .

  • Glutton

    I wish.

  • Farnsworth

    Have you ever considered a career in trying not to make awful jokes?

  • Msmignoresit

    PAr for the course after Obama’s whirl wind Middle East Apollogetics Tour 2009.

    http://msmignoresit.blogspot.com/2011/09/al-assad-to-obama.html

  • Bobby

    Gee Glutton Gut…you know soooooo many gay terms…and ALL  about anal sex.  Bet you were born bent over with lube in your hand.

  • Bobby

    Please present some facts to back up this rant?  Perhaps Mr. Santorum would outlaw homesexuality, but there are millions of conservatives that DO NOT agree with him.  Besides, he hasn’t snowball’s chance in hell of getting the Rep. bid.

  • Bobby

    See….I told you ole Glutton likes all that ass play. Thanks for
    clarifying for all of us your sexual preference. (Puke!!)

  • Bobby

    Never happen…the butch bit…Glutton is into drag.

  • Blue123

    Why don’t you invite him over for coke and “crack” sniff?  He sounds like your type.

  • Bobby

    Come on out of that closet, Wolfie.  Gluton has a major crush on you.

  • Glutton

    He is an awful joke.  What else would he make?

  • Vasallese

    I thought Ahmadinejad was a homosexual. What is he getting all fired up about?

  • Anonymous

    See, this is why the Tea Party, is scarily stupid. They don’t realize that people like Ahmedinijad are just like Santorum.. except Santorum has no power. If he did, there wouldn’t be gays in the military and imagine if Santorum has “supreme” power, power to do whatever he wanted, lock up whoever he wanted, sideline any religion that was not his.

    People like Santorum and Ahmedinijad are much more similiar than you think, stupid people with bad ideas mostly guided by religion and ignorance. Ahmedinijad just has more power so you can see the crazy in full display.

    Plus, the Republican party looks so much crazier than Ahmedinijad anyway.

    They cheer the death penalty (Iran has public executions I think, the GOP might enjoy that), they cheer people without healthcare, they boo soldiers because they are gay (like how the GOP doesn’t want gay soldiers). I mean, that’s just the tip of the iceberg though honestly, the GOP and Tea Party is such a cluter****, what with being against abortion, global warming, science, evolution, education (unless it’s “liberal” facts), welfare for the poor, medicare, social security, the EPA, the post office, vaccines, gays, muslims, french people, foreigners, hispanics, “job-doers”, the poor.

    Honestly all the Tea Party GOP can go screw themselves, they’re anti-American scumbags. The end.

  • Anonymous

    That is a really low blow as well as completely off-base.

  • Anonymous

    What exactly are you a glutton for? Bad taste?

  • Anonymous

    You are one misguided sucker, Blindspot. Santorum and Ahmedinejad are similar. Yeah, right. Have you ever considered getting a brain transplant?

  • Anonymous

    You and Snowspot ought to get married.

  • Anonymous

    Tatboy, you have been totally wasting your time trying to use rational arguments with these doofi.

  • Anonymous

    See above statements for my reaction to your rant…..

  • Anonymous

    Idelogically.. what is so different between Ahmedinijad and Santorum?

    They both seem to dislike gays, isn’t that funny? They have almost the same response toward gay people, they don’t want to know they exist… it’s hilarious.

    Conservative values seem to be aligning more with the anti-American terrorists everyday.

  • Anonymous

    That is the stupidest post I’ve ever seen. There’s no point in even trying to reason with you. You’re completely hopeless.

  • Frod

    LAPhil is lonely

  • Frod

    I think that he was talking very specifically about Santorum. What’s your point?

  • ATHF

    That was F-ing GREAT!
    How come the silver fox Vanderbilt boy was not the one asking the question or Obama jr. Don Lemon?

    “Perhaps there are those who engage in such activities and you may be in contact with them and more aware of them.”

    LMAO

  • ATHF

    No you hack.
    Do not try to shift and/or drag the republicans or conservatives into this.

    Mr Iran just said flatout gay people are screwed in his country.
    So you whine about that instead of trying to do what you limp wristed progressives always try to do and that is distract and shift blame. Why don’t you get more pissed  at how your boy Wolf didn’t defend gay people.

  • Dr. Phil

    You Sir OBVIOUSLY are; about Ahmadinejad YOU thought; and as far as the World is concerned, you ‘wish’ everyone would drink the cool aid you are poisoning Europe and the US.

  • Dr. Phil

    Even Iran gets it… Uganda gets it… it is just common sense… why would US follow Europe with its 40% mental illnesses???

    I am all for NOT denying Homosexuals Psychological treatment!  That is the ONLY healthcare benefit I would agree to pay for…. for the sake of the nation.

  • Vasallese

    What the hell have you been drinking?

  • Vasallese

    I feel sorry for you. You need psycological help. You are as demented as Ahmadinejad. And I wonder why you are railing against gays so much. Why do you hate yourself so much? Can’t come to terms with  your homosexuality?

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