Clearly this calls for your cartooning Rush Limbaugh in Haiti to teaching phenomenology to preschoolers while mutilating them by circumcision- all to be achieved before the 25th hour of your very next workday, after which you may then rest.

Declining this mission proves you’re a lightweight.

Things are getting clearly as the facts become known, as Paul predicted, and it is increasingly apparent that this “Iran Stolen Election” narrative is one of the biggest Big Lies that the US media, including the pseudo-progressive media, has ever perpetrated to discredit a landslide victory.

Mr. Fish, thank you very much for your well thought out response. I tend to agree with Folktruther’s assessment, but as you say, things should become more clear over time.

Again, thank you for discussing this with me.

Mr. Fish,

I applaud your participation in the comments regarding your work. I also admire your patience in attempting to explain said work to those who see all through the filters of their own partisan views.

Of course the description about filtered views applies to everyone else, always…..;-}

Mr Fish- All govemments oppress, all leaders lie, all elections are political theatr that tend to legitmate the status quo.  That said, a landslide election of Amadinejad, similar in vote outcome in 2005 win, prefigured by a large Rockafeller financed poll, is being demanded to be canceled by the overwhelmingly defeated, but richer and more Educated, side, and be empowered instead.

Paul Craig Roberts, among many others, think this is a ‘color’ revolution instigated by the US, based on the 400 million dollrs that Congress authorized two years ago for regime change in Iran.  And I agree with him.  I think the US media assterion of a ‘Stolen Election’ is a much Bigger Lie than the weapons of mass destruction that initiated the war with Iraq, since there is absolutely no evidence to support it.  In the US installing of the Shah a half century ago, the US paid off political leaders and paid demonstrators to create chaos, this being a standard CIA ploy in many past elections in many countries.

So I think you are dead wrong, and are supporting the deceived demonstators in Iran that are genuinely puting their lives on the line to demonstrate for an outcome thay is strongly against their interests.  The zionist NYTimes now indicates that the “Reformists” are consideering a strike, which, since the working class is on the side of Ahmadinejad, would have to be conducted by the business class. 

I mention in passing that being supported by an ardent, if erratic, Zionist like Inherit is not a good sign.

That said, I admire your willingness to argue with commenters like Paul.  You are one of the only members of the Truthdig staff that does so, practicing democracy instead of just preaching it.

Mr. Fish where is your cartoon on the fully documented and virtually unapologetic manipulation by the CIA of the democratic process in Haiti?

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P.S. Inherit, I am honored you would consider me part of the “contingent,” however, I am not sure if I am worthy of such praise.
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I dunno….this post is far too rational—it might just disqualify you.

BTW, let’s not forget that a regular chant at Iranian government-sponsored rallies for years is “Death to America!” about a nation “half a world away” as you would say.

Why doesn’t it work both ways?  Or are you going to be just a little bit hypocritical too and rationalize their chants?

Mr. Fish,

I don’t know what they’ve been saying on Fox News, but it’s all I hear on the radio, it’s on every newspaper, it’s on the cover of Time magazine for chrissakes. Since when is Time an incendiary/revolutionary publication? Don’t you find it hypocritical that those who would never lift a finger to protest the regime in their own country, are screaming their head off about something happening half a world away? Isn’t it odd that this movement started with mostly middle-class, English speaking, well-to-do Iranians and not the majority of Iranians who support the populist Ahmadinejad? And this plays into the hands of US and Israeli hawks who love this increased tension.

On the other hand, the Iranian government HAS violently cracked down on these protests, which was unwise since it only enflamed the situation and won the protesters far more support. I agree that this should be condemned, and this has turned into something far more significant, but I find the response of the West unheard of in its overwhelmingness. Especially compared to other totalitarian regimes around the world that we silently endorse or ignore. You must have noticed this. This is what I find suspect and I am not alone in thinking that some have ulterior motives in promoting this response. Of course you are extremely intelligent and think for yourself…but it seems your recent cartoons have been a bit superfluous since all US media and all political cartoonists are in complete agreement and no one is providing much needed shades of gray, which is what I usually come to you for.

I hope that makes sense. Thank you for reading and commenting,

Sincerely, still your loyal fan,

Russian Paul

P.S. Inherit, I am honored you would consider me part of the “contingent,” however, I am not sure if I am worthy of such praise.

Uh,Oh, Mr. Fish, now YOU have done it too! You incurred the wrath of “The Contingent”!  They will insult you, abuse you and demand you turn in your “progressive card” for being a secret neo-con, zionist and racist.

After all, you’ve attacked their heartfelt, if totally absurd and unjustified, beliefs.  That means you MUST be a neo-con-zionist-racist. Who else could possibly dispute their “divinely” inspired “evidence”?

Mr. Fish, I am really disagreeing with this new series of cartoons. I have absolutely no problem witnessing Iran’s protests, this is ALL the corporate media of America is talking about. The allegation that the election was rigged is being shoved down our throats. Do you not find that a bit suspect?

There might have been some fraud, but like trudigger bellow says, no way would it have effected the end results of the election. The US certainly has an interest in overblowing this story, creating more tension with Iran. Also, the people who are now so into this protest and the “twitter revolution” are mostly people who didn’t make a peep during their own fraudulent elections of ‘00 and ‘04.

So it is quite complex, I would hope your cartoons would reflect that more.

Is it possible that the results of an election is rigged by 11 million votes??!! I really doubt it.
Is something is “rigging” the news??!!

The attempts by the regime to silence the people is doomed to failure.
I believe the regime is doomed as well. The brutal crackdown may buy them some time, but this is truly the beginning of the end for one of the world’s worst authoritarian power centers.