CNN is slipping word battles onto the airwaves while we aren’t looking. If not for @slantsmcgee the Fareed Zakaria vs Iranian Regime Spokesman Mohammed Marandi showdown would have been missed. Some say time stamp 4:20 the moment Zakaria loses his shit by calling the Tehran professor “a mouthpiece of a dying regime.” We say he came out swinging and never stopped.
The line that caught our ears is towards the interview’s end. The prof let snark that he is not the “mouth of Sauron.”
We listened twice to be sure.
First, professor, that’s exactly the kind of thing The MOS would say.
Second, politics taking grand steps into geek culture is getting a bit weird. Soon all future political debates will transpire around a small table littered with Dungeon Master guides, mountains of empty cola cans, and enough Cheetos to put Chester into a pleasure coma for weeks. Humanity’s future will be decided in dank, dark basements of the world’s Halls of Power while Cody’s mom bakes up a batch of her famous preacher cookies.
@slantsmcgee could not help but to make a mock-up of how this world would look.
(via The Daily Dish, @slantsmcgee)
