Unless by "western media" we mean Andrew Sullivan and the Washington Note blog.
Look at CNN: Almost no coverage. Then look at Daily Kos: Non-stop coverage. Regardless of the actual result, it's absolutely embarrassing, and b is right to get chewed out. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Which should shock no one. The neocons made quite clear they were rooting for Shithead, and their dogs in the press went to fetch as soon as the stick was thrown.
Obviously folks like Olbermann and Maddow view it with suspicion, but they're of course not an accurate representation of the media.
Even supposedly respectable news orgs like the Gaurniad, the Indie and the Beeb have eaten up Khamenei's bullshit.
I think Bernard at MoA is, by any reasonable viewer's eye, completely full of shit. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Ballots are usually recounted centrally on the following day (if the margin between any two seats is below a certain number of votes, which it almost invariably is when you do d'Hondt for the next best thing to three hundred seats...).
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
