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December 19, 2005

Iran's President Looking To Get Shot At Again

This is actually positive news. Push hard enough, make people's lives as dreary and miserable as possible, and you will one day find them pushing back:

Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned Western music from Iran's radio and TV stations, reviving one of the harshest cultural decrees from the early days of 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Songs such as George Michael's "Careless Whisper," Eric Clapton's "Rush" and the Eagles'"Hotel California" have regularly accompanied Iranian broadcasts, as do tunes by saxophonist Kenny G.

But the official IRAN Persian daily reported Monday that Ahmadinejad, as head of Iran's Supreme Cultural Revolutionary Council, ordered the enactment of an October ruling by the council to ban Western music.

"Blocking indecent and Western music from the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting is required," according to a statement on the council's official Web site.

Trivial? Not really. Let's face it, most of our days are pretty uneventful; say what you will about pop culture, but it's a small diversion from the tedium and stress of life.

And it's the young who care most passionately about that.

Ahmadinejad has violated the second most basic rule of Machiavelli. The first, of course, is that the Prince must make warfare his constant study.

The second is: don't take from the people their cheesy Wham! pop-ballads.

posted by Ace at 02:32 PM

Comments

Songs such as George Michael's "Careless Whisper"

Man, he is asking for a missle up the ass.

Posted by: rls on December 19, 2005 02:55 PM

I always thought the first rule of Machiavelli was: "Never get involved in a land war in Asia."

Posted by: Pompous on December 19, 2005 03:07 PM

Whoops, I looked it up. I was totally wrong. The first rule of Machiavelli is, Don't talk about Machiavelli.

It starts to get a little repetitive after that.

Sorry, everybody. My bad.

Posted by: Pompous on December 19, 2005 03:09 PM

The fourth observation from Machiavelli had to do with governmental oversight and regulations - it's Nostradamus-like

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dick Cheney guarda le guardie notturne.

Quelle guardie notturne responsabili del guardare il Dick Cheney morto delle lesioni interne voluminose - ha occorr al coroner tre ore per rimuovere i sorrisi dalle loro facce

Which translates as:

Dick Cheney watches the watchmen

Those watchmen responsible for watching Dick Cheney died of massive internal injuries - it took the coroner three hours to remove the smiles from their faces

Posted by: BumperStickerist on December 19, 2005 03:21 PM

Nice, Bumper.

Now Ace: How is banning Kenny G from the public airwaves supposed to make Ahmadinejad unpopular? You might want to rethink this.

Posted by: See-Dubya on December 19, 2005 03:24 PM

Yeah, in alot of places that'd get him nominated for sainthood.

Posted by: Iblis on December 19, 2005 03:29 PM

I think the lines "guilty feet have got no rhythm/so I'm never gonna dance again/the way I danced with you" just hit a little too close to home for his comfort.

Posted by: Sobek on December 19, 2005 03:30 PM

The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the casbah
Rock the casbah

Posted by: Kazmin on December 19, 2005 03:36 PM

I just think it's really funny that depriving Iranian youth of WHAM could be the final straw that instigates a revolution which overthrows the government.

Posted by: Village Idiot on December 19, 2005 03:56 PM

Whatever happened to all the fun in the world?

Posted by: Sheik Yerbouti on December 19, 2005 03:58 PM

Bismillah NO!
When they take my Queen from my cold dead hands.

Posted by: skinbad on December 19, 2005 03:59 PM

Damn don't take peoples' music away

Some may recall the fall of the former Hungarian Communist Regime was attributed to the influence of Western Rock Music:

Here

For an interesting comment thread on the Ah -MAD-inejad extremist ruling faction of the Mad Mullas of Iran, see this comment thread at Winds of Change:

Here

Posted by: Ron Wright on December 19, 2005 04:40 PM

As I remember hearing, Ceauşescu banned Zamfir's music, and after he was shot, it rang through the streets as a paean to freedom. Kenny G may be bad enough, but frankly I'd prefer Iran as it is to the threat of John Tesh being associated with a free Iran.

Posted by: Lapsed Leftist on December 19, 2005 04:56 PM

Move over blue meanies theres a music hater running a whole coutry into the ground frankly i hope he ends up like the rest of the religous fanatics who have run iran

Posted by: spurwing plover on December 19, 2005 09:11 PM

All I ask, before he gets shot, is that the Iranian President wakes me up before he go-goes...

Posted by: cheshirecat on December 20, 2005 12:40 AM

When they take my Queen from my cold dead hands.

Isn't that Ace's line?

Posted by: cheshirecat on December 20, 2005 12:42 AM

I recall Frank Zappa going on about Ayatollah Khomenei's fatwa against music like... 20 years ago. In fact, I think there's something about it in the Joe's Garage liner notes... Nothing new under the sun!

Posted by: Ian on December 20, 2005 12:45 AM

I feel a parody coming on...

In a dark desert dungeon
In an undisclosed lair
I was smokin' Satanic Verses
And let Khamanei share.
Then an aura surrounded me
In a shimmering light...
I started gasping, and Ayatollah tol' me
That I was high as a kite.
Water backed up though the toilet;
I remembered the imam tell
That the Imam Mahdi
Could be coming like that out that well.
Then I sensed like a vision
('Long with Leprechauns, and Fay Wray)
That were voices down in my drainpipe
I thought I heard them say...

Welcome to the Mind of Ahmad Nejad
all that empty space... i bet he must free-base.
What a damn loon, that Ahmad Nejad
Tryin' to bring us, here; into the Yawm Akhir.

Now I'm ridin' the Prophet's horsie
To where the universe ends
I got a lot of crazy, wacky boys
That I call friends
How they rant in the majlis
On sweet purple qat;
Some of 'em call me the Mahdi
But others call me a twat
So I called up a mullah
Please show me a sign
He said...
Bitch, you're wound tight like a rusted ball of twine
And still I hear voices, a bit like Haji Rezayy
Hangin' young chicks every mornin
Still I hear her say

I won't be missin' that Ahmad Nejad
I wish I had my mace, I'd spray it in his face
So this is the way of Ahmad Nejad
Another woman dies, to cover up his lies

Scratchin' all my chin hairs
With my beard fulla lice
And I'm glad,
They're all just prisoners here
Of Khomenei's device
And in my palace chambers
We all gather for a feast
Got kickbacks from those smugglers
From Afghan land on our east.
The Holocaust didn't happen
Those damn Joooz make me snore
Anyway... we'll get the bomb soon and bomb their ass back to 634
So I'll sit here in Tehran
I'll get high, kill and thieve
Tell the world the craziest shit y'all ever heard
But ya better believe
Because...

Welcome to the world of Ahmad Nejad
the biggest mental case in the human race.
I've had enough of that Ahmad Nejad
When his ass is gone, candy for everyone!

Posted by: David Ross on December 20, 2005 03:10 AM

David, well done sir. Very well done.

Posted by: Dave in Texas on December 20, 2005 09:34 AM

Hey dave you doing that to HOTEL CALFORNIA?

Posted by: spurwing plover on December 20, 2005 03:11 PM

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Courtney Subramiam, one of the "journalists" who "previewed" her questions for the decrepit and demented Biden so that he could "answer" it with a pre-scripted response, rewarded by promotion to president of the White House Press Corps

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Except he was running: His own wife turned the sexts over to his campaign.
And obviously Reuben Gallego didn't let his "political life" get in the way of his extramarital dating life: