Yes, But Saddam Got 100 Percent of the Vote

An Iranian notes something a bit odd about MSM coverage of his country's "elections":

Western news media consider elections in many countries to be legitimate only if international monitors declare them so. Yet, when it came to Iran's presidential runoff last week -- where no such monitors were allowed -- they took the government's stated results at face value.

That's okay---I'm sure Jimmy Carter will approve of the mullahs Potemkin democracy.