The idiot doesn’t realize it would be as if for example a popular candidate say Barack Obama who was even lesser known by folks in U.S. would’ve lost the black vote in any of the primaries or the general election and then his opposing candidate be it Hillary or McCain would make their case by pointing to how Jesse Jackson did in that state.

There are so many cases of voter fraud be it Karoubi’s vote 5th place total vote count to what he pulled from the state of Lorestan to what he pulled in comparison to 2005. Then there are all the fake unfolded ballots with the same handwriting which the Islamic cliphate (not republic) put on on their state run TV, to one video of someone writing in ballots, to the huge number of voter irregulatirty that the dictator himself admitted to that makes Afrasiabi seem like an agent of Sepah intellegince service.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/note18jun2009.pdf

Evidently, Mr. Mebane’s updated statistical study illustrates that according to the examined body of models, the surge in Ahmadinejad’s numbers cannot be clearly explained. Apparently, this very fact escaped the regime cohorts who flood their propaganda media machine to spew nonsense.

I think it started well, but I think the word cheap can be liberally thrown around to describe the analysis of every guest. What we really did in the credibility of the announcer was at 3:36-3:37 of the third part when she said “pick on” instead of “pick up.” My, my. Classy classy!

What was fantastic were the interviews of normal Iranians on the street. I too believe many Westerners are wrong in judging the elections as fraudulent. They defy “common sense” and “statistics” (because each guest does not go into detail about their statistical analysis, telling me none of them can go beyond simple arithmetic without panicking) in the same way George W. Bush’s election must have stumped outsiders. It only proves what we as Americans dislike: America is not cute and lovable, and that the arrogance of its actions pisses off an increasingly conservative and xenophobic group of onlookers, who mirror are own shortcomings, not their deficiencies and deviations from a rational norm. That is not just a problem in Iran. That is everywhere. The skepticism of those interviewed embodies what I think happened: the majority see Moussavi supporters are angry they did not have their way, and a tantrum is not going to change that.

As much as I did not like his superficial slickness, I reluctantly see Marandi as the only one who struck me as competent. He harks back to the same problem every regional expert frowns about when looking at Western analysis of anything: you did not talk to people, because you do not speak their native tongue, and are quick to judge their actions as if they are monkeys you observe in zoo. No way they can be human beings with our robotic rationality and mental consistency (again, sarcasm). No one likes that. Even though the accusations against Ansari were crap and tremendously unprofessional, his bias is just as evident as the others. Good find. Thanks.