MEMRI  provides the latest update on the International Zionist Conspiracy, as seen by Iranian National News. And guess what? It's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, a production of the "Jewish Walt Disney Company."

Why Jewish? Old Walt was no Jew. It's because the Disney board of directors has 7.7% Jewish members while only 2.2% of the US population is Jewish.

It would seem that Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Barbra Streisand are a lot scarier than that.

This follows Iran TV's previous expose of The Tom & Jerry Show.

"Iranian professor Hasan Bolkhari during a televised film seminar told viewers that "Some say that the main reason for making this very appealing cartoon was to erase a certain derogatory term that was prevalent in Europe."

What derogatory term is that, you ask?

"The mouse is very clever and smart. Everything he does is so cute. He kicks the poor cat's ass. Yet this cruelty does not make you despise the mouse. He looks so nice, and he is so clever... This is exactly why some say it was meant to erase this image of mice from the minds of European children, and to show that the mouse is not dirty and has these traits.

"Unfortunately, we have many such cases in Hollywood shows."

All the Iranians I've ever met are worldly and intelligent people. The Mullahs are paranoid throwbacks. Educated Iranians can't feel happy to have Iranian culture and nationhood being made a laughingstock. But the Mullahs are wielding a lot of Big Sticks, and nobody wants their relatives in Tehran arrested and tortured. Intelligent Iranians keep quiet.

So the Mullah's low comedy has a dark side.

It's high time to throw out the crazies, but the West isn't going to do it. The US and a few allies may set back the uranium enrichment program by bombing Natanz and Bushehr. Nobody wants these clowns to have nukes. But if the Iranian people don't rise up and smash the regime, they will have to live with the shame of having their proud nation ruled by the most farcical ignoramuses in the world. 

James Lewis    9 27 06