Wednesday March 11, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Remember when President Bush was attacked by a show thrower in Ira?

Well, ever since then, shoe throwers have been popping up all over.
We just haven't been hearing about them.

No one heard about the shoe thrower in Iran, the guy who threw a shoe at Ahmadinejad in Urma. The story was not even covered in the Iranian mainstream press. That's because the Iranian press is controlled by the religious leadership of Iran and they most certainly did not want the story covered.

The story was, however, released in the local Urma press one time and then it was muzzled. The people who finally got hold of the story and started spreading it around were the bloggers of Iran.

The number of bloggers in Iran is enormous and their skill is highly developed.

It is through the blogosphere that we find out what is really happening in Iran.
It is there that the alternative news gets read.
It is in the blogosphere that the real spirit of Iran lives.

Iran loved their shoe thrower, even though the shoe was only thrown at Ahmadinejad's car.

Thanks to Iranian bloggers, the thud has now been heard around the world.

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