Golnaz Esfandiari skewers Ann Curry's fluff piece (which you can watch here):
NBC fails to ask why a president who is so committed to human values didn’t speak up against the documented torture and rape of young people who were jailed for peacefully protesting his reelection. The NBC reporter also doesn't ask the Iranian president whether, in his daily reading, he looks at the countless letters from political prisoners and their families detailing the horrors they have to endure in prison.
Gene Zitver feels similarly. The fellatial interview seems to have been part of an effort to hype an exclusive "Hikers Are Free!" story. Good grief. An Iranian reader unloads:
Ann Curry was a total embarrassment. A softball interview that was orchestrated so they can be the first one that gets the "Hikers will be released" line. But look how she went "behind the scenes" in a day of President's life!! Even Iranian State TV couldn't pull off such a PR job for this monster. She even says, "Why do you work so hard Mr. President?" … VOMIT. And then goes on to tell us that "even the supreme leader has told him to slow down"!! Um … The supreme leader is a murderer who went to Friday prayers on 19th of June 2009 and ordered the guards to shoot people!! So somehow quoting him on how hard he works might be a little INSANE!
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