did this guy have dinner with Ahmadinejad or Jesus?

It would probably be better to read this piece by Time's Richard Stengel while poised over the toilet, ready to hurl. OH MY GOD! Did this guy have dinner with a thug who presides over a state that has women stoned to death for looking a bit too suggestively at a guy and that has gays killed or with Jesus Christ? Could he describe the thug in more glowing terms? How can these people be so in love with brutal dictators?