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Time announces it has an "exclusive interview" with Ahmadinejad, who it calls a "Person of the Year Candidate" - and, at least in the excerpt it has posted on the web today, doesn't question him about his threatening to wipe a U.N. member nation, Israel, off the map; or about his denial of the Holocaust; or about his threats of death to other Western nations including the U.S.
Here's their question about the Holocaust denial conference Ahmadinejad staged:
You've just held a conference questioning the Holocaust. Why not hold a peace conference instead? You could invite the Israelis and Palestinians to talk about peace, instead of what happened 60 years ago.
They didn't get on his case for denying the historical facts. They gave him a pass. They just used the topic of a conference as an intro to the wimpy, "why not hold a peace conference" question. A peace conference? Are they kidding? After he's threatened repeatedly all year to wipe Israel off the map and to bring death to Western nations?
Time Magazine accepts it that Ahmadinejad says one thing to them, and another thing in his speeches abroad. They didn't get in his face about this recent quote of his:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Western leaders to follow the path of God or "vanish from the face of the earth".
"These oppressive countries are angry with us ... a nation that on the other side of the globe has risen up and proved the shallowness of their power," Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the northern town of Ramsar, the semi-official news agency Mehr reported Wednesday.
"They are angry with our nation. But we tell them 'so be it and die from this anger'. Rest assured that if you do not respond to the divine call, you will die soon and vanish from the face of the earth," he said.
Ahmadinejad is threatening us with death, and Time is lobbing softball questions at him. Why don't they want to "speak truth to power" to Ahmadinejad? This, despite the fact that Iran has been caught arming militias that are killing U.S. troops.
Surely, this is a low point in the magazine's history.
