Reply #16: if you doubt the power of the M$M to...

[theanarch]

...deliberate misinterpret a public personage's statements/speeches/etc. to slime them, just look at the hatchet job they did to Gore (and he was speaking plain English) re: "inventing" the internet, "discovering" Love Canal and being the model for the protagonist for "Love Story" (Gore never said it, the author--Eric Segal--did). I can guarantee that more people remember and believe the lies told about Gore than the truth. Hell, how many still believe the Iranian parliment passed a law that forces Iranian Jews to wear ID badges (a la Hitler's Germany or Nazi-occupied countries), when the story was invented whole cloth by a DC-based PR firm on retainer to some US-funded exile group with a vested interest in producing "intelligence" that promotes their agenda...and the neo-con's? When both Juan Cole (a fluent Farsi speaker/reader/writer) and MIMRI (a Likud-Right think tank) agree that Ahmedinejad is being deliberately misinterpreted, we should pay closer attention.