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Originally Posted by MysticCat
I think you're right. I think as far as he's concerned, it is all about him, including coming to the US. He can show all the true believers back home how he came into the heart of the Great Satan and stood his ground.
I swear, when I was listening to him, I was reminded of a much scarier version of somebody like Rush Limbaugh. Not that I think Limbaugh is a crazy anti-American or supports terrorism or anything like that -- I want to be clear on that -- but there was that sense of "I'm right, nobody can convince me otherwise, and anyone who doesn't agree with me is evil, stupid or deluded." The true believers eat that stuff up.
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I saw an article that put it like this: instead of us talking about freedom of speech in Iran, we're debating freedom of speech in America... and that's what he wanted.
His responses on the Holocaust (that if it's real then why can't it stand up to alternate research) and homosexuals (we don't have them in Iran) were just pathetic, but you know they won't come off that way to those who hear it in Iran (edited to leave out the intro I'm sure)