[BRIEF NOTE] On Ahmedinejad

[rfmcdonald]

Philip Giraldi is quite right to note ("The myth of the all-powerful Ahmadinejad" that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad isn't a very significant factor in Iranian politics, given how actual power in Iran is concentrated away from the Islamic Republic's democratic organs in an unelected clerical elite. It's also true that Ahmedinejad's public statements--bashing non-hetersoexuals, bashing women, bashing Jews, bashing dissident factions, et cetera--makes him no different from any number of other crackpot leaders who like of populist reactionary nationalism. In that spirit, here's Andy Samberg with Adam Levine, performing their hit song "Iran So Far Away".