The president or the people

It seems that America isn't the only place where the president isn't necessarily representative of the people. Oddly enough, it seems that we are joined in that category by our arch nemesis, Iran, where the hottest new tv show is the Iranian mini-series version of Schindler's List.

[The show] that tells the tale of an Iranian diplomat in Paris who helps Jews escape the Holocaust ...

That's surprising enough in a country where hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned whether the Holocaust even took place. What's more surprising is that government media produced the series, and is airing it on state-run television.

Yet the series titled "Zero Degree Turn" is clearly sympathetic to the Jews' plight during World War II. It shows men, women and children with yellow stars on their clothes being taken forcibly out of their homes and loaded into trucks by Nazi soldiers.