Harper chides Iran for non-existent racist bill it doesn't have

[tuvor]

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper was quick to condemn Iran yesterday for an anti-Semitic law that appears not to exist.

Harper seized on a newspaper report that said Iran's hardline government would require Jews and Christians to wear coloured labels in public.

The prime minister couldn't vouch for the accuracy of the National Post report, but he added that Iran was capable of such actions and compared them to Nazi practices.

"Unfortunately, we've seen enough already from the Iranian regime to suggest that it is very capable of this kind of action," Harper said.

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/National/2006/05/20/1589318-sun.html

[Spazito]

1. Yep, the only question I have is did he get his response faxed

to him by the WH or did they simply call him?

[ClusterFreak]

2. Worst. Prime Minister. Ever. n/t

[daleo]

3. Harper is certainly capable of eating babies

And the fact that a Conservative leader would eat babies is appalling, if true.

[Telly Savalas]

5. And we're still waiting for proof that he isn't responsible

for the kidnapping and torture of hundreds of Canadians.

[CHIMO]

4. Iranian embassy denies dress code

A news story and column by Iranian-born analyst Amir Taheri in yesterday's National Post reported that the Iranian parliament had passed a sweeping new law this week outlining proper dress for Iran's majority Muslims, including an order for Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to wear special strips of cloth.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=5c7bf231-1026-4448-a122-d8c046057913&k=39818

So one googles a bit.

THE REAL IRAQ
by Amir Taheri
Benador Associates
May 31, 2006
This article was published in Commentary issue of May 2006.

Amir Taheri, formerly the executive editor of Kayhan, Irans largest daily newspaper, is the author of ten books and a frequent contributor to numerous publications in the Middle East and Europe. His work appears regularly in the New York Post.

http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/19499

And one thing leads to another.

Benador Associates is a public relations firm that was founded by Eleana Benador, the former director of Daniel Pipe's Middle East Forum, a hard-line think thank whose members have urged for wider U.S. intervention in the Middle East. Benador's list of experts reads like a who's who of heavy hitters in the neoconservative advocacy world. Clients include Frank Gaffney, Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, and James Woolsey.

Wrties journalist Jim Lobe of Benador's work: "When historians look back on the United States war in Iraq, they will almost certainly be struck by how a small group of mainly neo-conservative analysts and activists outside the administration were able to shape the US media debate in ways that made the drive to war so much easier than it might have been. . . . But historians would be negligent if they ignored the day-to-day work of one person who, as much as anyone outside the administration, made their media ubiquity possible. Meet Eleana Benador, the Peruvian-born publicist for Perle, Woolsey, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney and a dozen other prominent neo-conservatives whose hawkish opinions proved very hard to avoid for anyone who watched news talk shows or read the op-ed pages of major newspapers over the past 20 months." (2)

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/2826

Now I can't pass a yea or nay on these sources, as it is the first time that I have come up against them. But it would certainly give me cause to step back and seek further assurances if I were the PM.

[Spazito]

6. Here is a link to an excellent thread with lots of info on

both the author of that disgusting lie and on Benador Assoc.:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1238695

[MrPrax]

7. Benador associates are allover

the National Post...George Jonas is also an Benador scholar, which explains alot about what he writes.

If you look down the list, you find a few 'journalists' who are favoured by the comPost.