Patterico's Pontifications

12/17/2005

See-Dubya’s Dictator Photo Quiz

Filed under: General — See Dubya @ 12:13 am



There’s something missing from around the necks of the five Important World Leaders pictured below. Can you guess what it is?

Iran\'s chief wacknut



For those of you who said “Rope!” give yourself five points.
For those of you who said “Neckties!” give yourself four points and go see Brokeback Mountain one more time.

But since we’re talking about ties–

Dudes: each of you runs a miserable tyranny that crushes the human spirit. You do not sell diet supplements on late-nite infomercials. If you put on a suit, put on a tie.

Actually this may be a little unfair to Assad and Chavez, who usually get it right in most pictures. Kim Jong Il often does the Nehru-jacket poofy Blofeld look, which is appropriate for him and requires no tie, but he blew it with this outfit. A suave black tie to complete that Matrix suit and he would look sinister and pudgy instead of just pudgy. He looks like he’s about to sing out, “Ri–cola!”

And I heard from somewhere–no idea whether this is true– that Saddam doesn’t get a tie for security concerns. I suppose he might hang himself in his cell. Because, um, that would be tragic.

The interesting one here is Ahmadinejad, at top. For him, that’s a political statement. I have an acquaintance who taught at a university in Iran during the Revolution. He took all kinds of crap from the student radical thugs because he was clean-shaven and wore a tie, both of which habits were considered degraded and Western. So he made it a point to shave and wear a tie to class every day, just to cheese off the theofascists. Now that he’s here in California, he still shaves, but he skips the tie most of the time.

With that in mind, we can see where Ahmadinejad’s loyalties lie.

11 Responses to “See-Dubya’s Dictator Photo Quiz”

  1. Why bother being a dictator if you have to wear a tie? Ties suck.

    Patterico (806687)

  2. My first thought was a noose, before I even looked at the photos. (Just had a feeling who they would be).

    All wishful thinking aside, I’ve noticed the absent-necktie thing for a while now. They may be afraid if they wear one somebody’ll just grab it and hang ’em with it.

    Laura (372d42)

  3. None are wearing a Nobel Peace Prize.

    Yet.

    Dwilkers (a1687a)

  4. I was personally impressed with the photo of Kim Jong Il, with the mountains (that don’t look like they are anywhere in the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea), and the wind blowing the tail of his overcoat and even his hair-sprayed coiffure. I felt a great personal connection with President Kim, and, were it not for the objections of the lovely Mrs Pico, would be packing to move to the PDRK even as I type.

    There is a huge mistake being made with Saddam Hussein, however. With a pose like that, it is obvious that we should have let him wear his old uniform; then all one would need to do is visualize him with an added swastika armband . . .

    Dana R. Pico (8d0335)

  5. The tie is as dead as the hat.

    Kevin Murphy (6a7945)

  6. That Kim portrait puts me in mind of a ’50s-era TV show that I used to see in reruns as a kid. Is NorKTV perchance airing a new TV show, “The Adventures of SUPERTYRANT”?

    McGehee (5664e1)

  7. Kim’s picture looks as if it was done at KMart. I wonder how many Moms with little kids he cut ahead of in line to get that done.

    Laura (9635ff)

  8. I like to go with a cowboy hat and bola tie, snappy boots too sometimes. It’s a good look and girls like it. Makes me look tall and thin.

    Black Jack (ee9fe2)

  9. Just got back from gateway pundit, so your question made me groan. . . guess what some idiot thought belonged around W’s neck?
    http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2005/12/lefts-disgusting-view-of-freedom-blue.html

    jheslin (11e006)

  10. Picture #3: Saddam reminding the Iraqi people that they were better off prior to the invasion.

    Of course that’s only true if you’ve forgotten the rape rooms, plastic shredders, his two sons, the marsh Arabs, the Kurds, the oil well fires in Kuwait, the beheadings. I’m sure I’ve forgotten something – he was so popular.

    Harry Arthur (b318a5)

  11. I believe it was Miss Manners who gave the explanation of the men’s necktie that I like the most. The men’s tie says to everyone in the room, “I am here to talk, not to fight.” The way I see it, the message these thugs want to send is clear.

    tyree (79820d)


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