Guess who has started to blog?
We’ll give you a hint: this person needs a shave, makes inflammatory statements, gets lots of press and has been the subject of thousands of hours of commentary on talk shows and a zillion posts on blogs.
No, it’s not Ann Coulter.
It’s this guy:
Iran’s president has launched a Web log, using his first entry to recount his poor upbringing and ask visitors to the site if they think the United States and Israel want to start a new world war.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose speeches are riddled with anti-U.S. rhetoric, also described how he was angered by American meddling in Iran even when he was at elementary school.
Ahmadinejad swept to a surprise victory in last year’s presidential race by promising the country’s poor a fairer share of Iran’s oil wealth and emphasizing his own humble origins that led many to vote for him as an “outsider” to Iran’s ruling elite.
“During the era that … living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village,” he wrote in a blog dated Friday, after opening with Islamic greetings.
Hey, do you want to exchange links? We’ll even create a new blogroll category for you: Antisemitic Voices.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.