Over the weekend, there were LOTS of wild rumors flying around, many later shown to be false, or having come from Twitter impersonators. There were rumors of Hezbollah and Syrians in Iran attacking people as well, and those turned out to be equally nutty and unverified. Robert Fisk did a good job pointing this craziness out, and refuted it with firsthand observations that many of the ethnic minorities in Iran are amongst Ahmedi's supporters, and have come in from out of Tehran to target the protesters, from areas less sympathetic to them.

It's also a fact that it would be a very hard thing indeed to bring a substantial number of Palestinians into Iran on the spur of the moment to do such a thing, and that the Palestinians would most likely be very sympathetic to the protesters, given that they too have been shot at for protesting many times before.

The supporters of Hamas are primarily in Gaza and simply do not have the ability to just hop a plane and go to Iran. They can't even leave Gaza!

If you believe these stories, I have some prime agricultural land in the Gaza strip I'd like to sell you...!

This story is frankly not credible. To me, this sounds like a serious case of wishful thinking, if not outright propaganda from the same old pro-Israel neocon types and the pro-rightwing, unrestricted capitalism types that they have out there. We simply have no photos, no videos, and no proof to back up such wild claims, but we can bet that the same old biased, pro-Republican Iranian exile propagandists who claim to be pro-democracy leaders despite having no real influence in country are still out there, trying to get a piece of the limelight, a bit of the CIA funding, and special attention for their businesses from the powers-that-be should Iran's government be toppled. This could quite easily be some Iranian equivalent to Ahmed Chalabi making these kinds of unproven, unsubstantiated statements, or a paid Mossad agent / source based in Iran... we simply have no way of knowing.

Over the weekend, there were LOTS of wild rumors flying around, many later shown to be false, or having come from Twitter impersonators. There were rumors of Hezbollah and Syrians in Iran attacking people as well, and those turned out to be equally nutty and unverified. Robert Fisk did a good job pointing this craziness out, and refuted it with firsthand observations that many of the ethnic minorities in Iran are amongst Ahmedi's supporters, and have come in from out of Tehran to target the protesters, from areas less sympathetic to them.

It's also a fact that it would be a very hard thing indeed to bring a substantial number of Palestinians into Iran on the spur of the moment to do such a thing, and that the Palestinians would most likely be very sympathetic to the protesters, given that they too have been shot at for protesting many times before.

The supporters of Hamas are primarily in Gaza and simply do not have the ability to just hop a plane and go to Iran. They can't even leave Gaza!

If you believe these stories, I have some prime agricultural land in the Gaza strip I'd like to sell you...!

Anyone who would believe such wild rumors that emurge in the chaos of Iran right now simply is not credible. There is plenty of images and plenty of video coming back from Iran, and these could prove or disprove such statements

I like BSG. I love music. I would like something portable to play music. Seems like this would be good all the way around, really...

Actually, Ralph does not have millions of supporters. Ralph had 657,389 supporters in this election, which is well below a million, and certainly not "millions".

Sure, press conferences are designed to get attention. But when you accuse a black politician who used to work as an innercity grassroots organizer of somehow not behaving black or innercity enough, that's offensive to many, and needlessly divisive.

"I cannot figure out why Ralph Nader doesn't consider ending the war in Iraq. . . why that doesn't make Ralph Nader's Top Twelve."

His answers, my friend, are blowin' in the wind... his answers are blowin' in the wind.

Apparently, being Ralph Nader means never having to say "I'm sorry..."

You sounded like Geraldine Ferraro, and turned off most anyone who was born in the past forty years. And you're making the same mistake as Ferraro, by not simply saying "I'm sorry that my remarks might've been viewed as offensive. That wasn't my intent." Instead, you attack once more, with no sign of civility or decency, and you refuse to acknowledge that your remarks were offensive to many.

Has it ever occurred to you that your lack of recent successes as a consumer advocate may be linked to your inability to be polite? And yes, I understand the need to be strong on issues, but the fact remains that you most certainly did not need to challenge a black politician who worked as an innercity organizer on whether he was somehow black enough.

Shame on you, Mr. Nader. And shame on you for being too proud to admit your mistake.