Am 26. Dezember 2008 um 12:27 von Felix abgelegt unter News
Every Christmas, the British TV station Channel 4 broadcasts their ‘Alternative Christmas Message‘, as an alternative to the Queens Christmas Message on BBC. According to Channel 4, the aim is to show an alternative Weltanschauung, itself a bit of a sacriledge in times where having the correct world-view apparently is becoming more important again.
This year, the Iranian president Ahmadinedschad was given the chance to deliver a speech, with such prominent precursors in this duty as Jesse Jackson, Marge Simpson and Jamie Oliver. More than once, the choice of the speaker alone leads to quite a bit of turmoil, so it didn’t take much at Channel 4 to figure out the Iranian evildoer would get them quite a nice bit of attention. Now, considering quota is what they make their money with, I think that’s fair enough.
Personally, I’d much rather hear what an apparently mad leader struggling to get his hands on an atomic bomb says what he thinks the next year holds, than listening to an old multi-billionaire aristocratic snatch lady that never had to care about money, telling me her view about the world financial crisis.
Plus, I think Ahmadinedschad definately has a world-view quite different from if not all, than at least a good quantity of the viewers of Channel 4 or Britain in general. So, the opportunity itself was exciting enough: would the Iranian president promise us the salvation from the global dominance of evil in the disguise of money, greed, military dominance and political ignorance, something I would be looking forward to myself?
Would he blandly threaten the world with annihilation, or just Israel? Or would he take the chance to put his former ravings about the purging of the state of Israel or the US into perspective? Whichever perspective this might be? Personally I though there was a chance for that, but I wouldn’t have put a lot of money on it. Alles lesen »