No Stinking Badges

May 26, 2006

When Canada’s National Post reported that Iran was instituting a color-coded system of badges to identify religious minorities, many sat up and took notice. It turned out the story was bogus, but Amir Tehari, the columnist who “broke” the “story,” is sticking by it. Bob speaks with Eleana Benador, the P.R. consultant who placed Tehari’s column, as well as the columns of many regime-change hawks in the months before the Iraq war.


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