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Media's Iran Coverage a Farce
By Michael Collins Piper
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. Mass media reports in the West (in the
United States in particular) often focused
largely on the fact that one of the vast array
of speakers at the Holocaust conference in
Tehran was David Duke. Although the
media repeated, ad nauseam, to the point of
boredom, the well-known fact that in his younger days,
Duke was the leader of a Ku Klux Klan group, the media
failed to point out that Duke left the Klan some 30 years ago
and that many of Duke’s fellow speakers in Iran were people
of color from Africa and Asia and throughout the
Middle East. The Iran conference was hardly the so-called “white supremacist” or “racist” conclave that the American
media falsely portrayed.
Nor did the media bother to mention regarding Duke
that he served as a popularly elected Republican state representative
from a suburban district in Louisiana and that
he ran two widely publicized campaigns for governor and
United States senator (winning roughly 65-70% of the
European-American vote statewide both times). Nor did the
media bother to mention that Duke is a certified academic,
holding a Ph.D. from a prestigious private university, and
that he has taught political science courses at the university
level.
Highly articulate and telegenic and a longtime and open
critic of imbalanced U.S. policies in support of Israel, Duke
has never particularly focused on what might be called “the
Holocaust issue.” However, Duke is certainly familiar with
the controversy and has often spoken critically of laws in
European countries—where Duke spends much of his time
researching and writing and lecturing—that impose prison
sentences on those who dare to question details surrounding
the subject of “the Holocaust.” And that’s what Duke
focused on when he spoke in Iran.
Nonetheless, the Western media reports about Duke’s
speech completely misrepresented not only the whole tone
of the Holocaust conference in Tehran but the actual words
spoken by the former Louisiana congressman himself.
AFP’s Michael Collins Piper was on hand in Iran with
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Duke at the time Duke fired off this corrective
message (posted on Duke’s website at david-duke.com) that exposed how very much the mass
media was lying about the conference. In Piper’s
estimation, having been on hand for the conference
himself, Duke’s assessment is probably as
succinct and as accurate as anything that has been
or can be said about the conference and the way
the media distorted the truth.
Duke pulls no punches. If you are politically
correct and are sensitive to no nonsense language regarding
the media, please read no further. However, if you are interested
in truth, here’s what Duke said about the media’s misinformation:
It is being reported around the world that in my
speech in Tehran that I stated that the “gas chambers
did not exist.” I said no such thing! In fact I said
specifically that I take no position on that issue but
that I believe in freedom of speech and find it an outrage
that men such as [historian] David Irving are in
prison for simply voicing an intellectual, historical
opinion.
The Zionist-influenced media has maintained that
the purpose of the conference was to deny the Holocaust—when the actual, stated purpose was to provide
free speech on this important historical issue
and to protest against the suppression of free speech
in some European and North American countries.
The record of the conference is clear. There were
many speeches at the conference that maintained the
mainstream Holocaust view.
In an act of blatant deception, the Zionist-influenced
media has headlined that in the closing session
Iran’s President called for “wiping Israel off the map,”
suggesting that he advocated a genocide or
destruction of the people of Israel. One more
big lie.
Any tape or transcript of his speech will show
that he said support around the world for
Zionism is dwindling and that the Zionist
Regime will be replaced by a democratic state in
the same fashion that the Soviet Regime was dissolved
in Russia.
He specifically advocated complete civil and
political rights for all residents of the region,
and specifically mentioned protection for the complete
civil rights for Jews and Palestinians alike, and
he repeatedly stressed that all peoples should love
and respect one another and must disavow violence
and war.
How the Zionist media lies! Thank God we have an
Internet where people can immediately learn the
truth. Ten years ago these lies could be stated with no
fear of contradiction, now you can hear with your
own ears the truth rather than the lies of a pro-Israel
media. The truth the Zionists are trying to create a catastrophic,
murderous war with Iran so they are trying
to stoke the fires of misunderstanding and hatred
toward that country.
Any fair-minded person who reads my actual
words and the words of the academics at the conference
and the words of the Iranian President can see
for themselves that the media has made up colossal
lies about this conference and its participants.
Tony Blair and George Bush have called the Holocaust
Conference “disgraceful.” Why is it disgraceful
to allow freedom of speech on historical issues? Isn’t
the real disgrace that thousands of Europeans have
been imprisoned for simply questioning small details
of the historical period called the “Holocaust”?
Why is a conference dedicated to free speech condemned,
yet putting people in prison in Europe for
exercising free speech is praised?
Who are the real deniers of freedom? Aren’t they
the Zionist puppets Bush and Blair and the Zionist
controlled media that lie about this conference, my
speech, the speech of the Iranian President and those
who support imprisonment of human beings for free
speech?
(Issue #1/2, January 1 & 8, 2007, AMERICAN
FREE PRESS)
