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Ahmadinejad Shares Latest Wacky Conspiracy Theories At Half-Empty U.N.
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 22, 2011
Modified Sep 23, 2011
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Published Sep 22, 2011
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Iranian president and clown-of-the-century nominee Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his sober annual sojourn to speak at the United Nations today. In previous years, half the delegates have walked out after Ahmadinejad railed against Jews, America, and rational thinking—but things were truly
different
exactly the same this year. Ahmadinejad gave his usual dumb speech filled with anti-Semitic conspiratorial BS, and delegates from the U.S., France, Germany, the United Kingdom and nearly a dozen other countries all walked out in disgust. You can watch his entire "argle-bargle" speech at the bottom, if you so wish.
This year, the theme of Ahmadinejad's talk was scrapbooking memories...both imaginary and real (mostly imaginary). Ahmadinejad suggested that President Obama had Osama Bin Laden killed to keep him from revealing who really was behind 9/11 (aliens?). Then he ranted about how the Jews blah blah Zionism blah and America blah blah 9/11 blah: "By using their imperialistic media network which is under the influence of colonialism they threaten anyone who questions the Holocaust and the Sept. 11 event with sanctions and military actions," he whispered lustily to the room. Someone obviously is aching for his own Osama bin Laden gold coin:
Mark Kornblau, spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the UN, was just as bored with "The George Steinbrenner of Iran's" reheated hate speech as we were: "Mr. Ahmadinejad had a chance to address his own people's aspirations for freedom and dignity, but instead he again turned to abhorrent anti-Semitic slurs and despicable conspiracy theories." It's a good thing that Ahmadinejad has formed his own ragtag posse of independent truth-seekers to investigate 9/11 outside the jurisdiction of those smug liberal elites in that fascist world organization. And it's extra good he recruited the Hardly Boys to help find some raging clues!
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