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Well, naturally, I have mixed feelings about John Pilger winning.
I would obviously have preferred to have won the prize myself.
Indeed, I was very excited when I was first informed that I was on the short list.
However, the feedback my staff have received from the Sydney committee
is that I had not done quite enough to encourage anti-Semitism in recent times
at least not compared to Pilger.
Also, I think there were some on the committee who were disappointed
that we still have not quite completed our first nuclear warhead.
If we had, I'm sure I would have been a shoo-in.
But second place is still nothing to sneeze at.
Having said all this, Pilger is a very worthy candidate.
He is one of the few Western journalists who
has neither accused me of rigging the presidential election
nor of carrying out human rights abuses against those who protested the election.
What’s more, I find him to be a very attractive man.
Don’t get me wrong –
as I made it clear in my speech to the students at Columbia University in their Che Guevara t-shirts
there are no gays whatsoever in Iran.
Not even me.
People get the wrong idea because I'm thin and neat.
A final comment,
I have heard that the new Jewish online magazine GalusAustralis.com has refused to publish Pilger’s work.
Galus Australis, you are so fatwa’d right now, you have no idea!