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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

FOXNews.com Headline of the Day

"Iran Goes Bananas" is the headline for this story about Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's trip to South America, where he met with other anti-American leaders. You might expect, knowing Ahmadinejad, he spouted off some nonsense about how there was no Holocaust, or how they will "wipe the Zionist stain of the face of the Earth," or how evolution isn't real, or some such nonsense. Thus, you know, say something "bananas." Alas, from him, just the usual dreck about how the industrialized nations "the imperialists [that's us] don't like us to help you progress and develop. They don't like us to get rid of poverty and unite people." Right, we all sit around here and make sure the Iranian people are poor. It's our fault your economy is so behind the time that the U.N. refers to it as "semi-developed." Our fault that out of 69 million people, there are only 19 million phone lines, 7.5 million internet users, that you have only 5 FM radio stations, and rely almost entirely on a state-run oil economy. Granted, we're not perfect (sorry about that whole CIA helped overthrow your government thing back in the 50s!) but fix your own problems. At least you don't have to deal with Fox News' headline writers!

(Unless, of course, one of your 5 FM stations is Fox News. In that case, you're screwed.)

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