I’d love to stage my own version of Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia and have it be like a Seinfeld monologue. Just have him saying basically the actual things he said, but on a small comedy club stage, with the Sienfeld cadences, and the little music pops. “We don’t have homosexuals in Iran.” (roar of laughter) “Why are you laughing? That’s not funny! None of this is funny! Like…what’s all this talk about the Holocaust? It needs more research!” (even more laughter) “Stop laughing! This is serious!” (music pops)
Although, to be fair, his phrasing (well, the translator’s phrasing) was accurate: “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.” That is true. In our country, homosexuals can openly lobby for the right to marry without being…oh, what’s the phrase…executed by the government.
Y’know, say what you will about Hitler…at least his name was easy to spell and pronounce.
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