A Revolution Named Zahra
by Kathleen ParkerThere’s a “new” old name suddenly in circulation that is both filled with ancient history and ripe with a revolutionary spirit for today’s game-changing events.
Zahra.
Well known to Muslims, Fatima az-Zahra was one of four daughters of the prophet Muhammad. Today, Zahra is also the name of two important, outspoken women of Iran.
One is Zahra Rahnavard, the courageous and charismatic wife of the allegedly defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. The other is Zahra Khanum, the equally courageous and charismatic woman portrayed in a new movie, “The Stoning of Soraya M.,” about the death of an Iranian woman on trumped-up charges of adultery.
Begging forgiveness for this confederacy of cliches, but we seem to have a perfect storm of tipping points.
Beneath the surface of news blasts covering Iran’s tainted elections, riots, protester deaths and government crackdowns, a subtext of women’s rights is emerging. It is a subtext only to the extent that women’s oppression isn’t often acknowledged directly — not even by the leader of the free world. But human rights are at the core of what is occurring now.
A government that oppresses its people can only sustain itself with violence, as the world is witnessing yet again as thousands take to Iran’s streets. And, in Iran as elsewhere in the Muslim world, violence against women — as well as against homosexuals and others considered inferior according to the mullahs’ masculinist standards — isn’t only permitted but justified with religious doctrine.
Mousavi challenged these notions — and the government, apparently, saw fit that he lose. Even in the midst of so much heat, Mousavi’s wife, Zahra, on Monday urged students at a Tehran University protest to hold fast in their resistance. Climb to the rooftops, she said, and shout, “God is great!”
Zahra R., who holds a PhD in political science and was an adviser to former president Mohammad Khatami, also has been vocal in urging reforms that would eliminate “morality police” as well as end discrimination against women.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that monument to self-confident masculinity, reportedly was so undone by Zahra’s power on the campaign trail that he questioned whether her doctorate was legitimate.
Americans will begin getting a glimpse of the other Zahra as soon as “The Stoning” opens in select cities. Based on a true story, the movie is adapted from French Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam’s 1994 novel of the same name.
In the film, produced by Stephen McEveety (“Braveheart” and “The Passion of the Christ”), the journalist-author is stranded in a small village when his car breaks down. Zahra (Shohreh Aghdashloo) dodges the threatening stares of her fellow villagers and persuades the reporter to come to her house and record her story. Evil has visited her village, she tells him, and she wants the world to know.
Briefly, Zahra’s niece Soraya, mother of four, had been accused of adultery by her abusive, unfaithful husband. The truth was that he wanted a divorce so he could marry another. When Soraya refused, he and the village mullah conspired to accuse her of adultery.
As the title suggests, Soraya was convicted and condemned to death by stoning.
I saw a rough cut of this film several months ago. Since that time, I’ve been unable to shake the story or images that I suspect will haunt me forever. Be forewarned: It is brutal. McEveety and director Cyrus Nowrasteh felt that the stoning scene needed to be accurately portrayed or the film would be an insult to Soraya’s suffering.
It will be hard for many to get through to the end, but staying with the movie brings a reward. Despite the brutality, the film is also beautiful and true. It reminds us that a woman in some parts of the world can be destroyed at a man’s whim without consequence. The beauty is that truth will out.
“The Stoning,” which will be in most theaters June 26, was intentionally timed for release after Iran’s elections. Dennis Rice, charged with promoting the movie, figured the election would help create interest, but he didn’t anticipate the serendipitous intersection of the two Zahras. “Irony?” he asks. “I think not.”
In Arabic, Zahra means “The Shining One.”
In English, we’d call that a beacon.
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it would behoove our audience to be aware that there is Iran- terrorist state- and Iranians, a good, noble and cultured people. What is happening in Iran is not an electoral dispute; there isn't a dime's worth of difference between Thug#1 and Thug#2.
What is happening is the good citizens of Iran are sick and tired of 30 years of systemic oppression and of being the world's pariah…
And they are making themselves heard! Good for them, and Godspeed…
"Mousavi challenged these notions — and the government, apparently, saw fit that he lose. Even in the midst of so much heat, Mousavi’s wife, Zahra, on Monday urged students at a Tehran University protest to hold fast in their resistance. Climb to the rooftops, she said, and shout, “God is great!”
I give these people credit for standing up against so much adversity but IMO it will just turn into another tiananmen square.
Let's hope they screen it in the White House.
Wasn't Kathleen Parker one of the first "conservatives" to kick Sarah Palin to the curb?
I've never heard of her before today so I can't say.
I think you're right. Funny how when a strong intelligent American woman raises her voice she gets savaged by the media.
If it's a muslim woman then she should be elected Jesus….
It's the most stunning movie I've seen in a long time. It stayed with me for days and had a profound effect. I hope it creates tsunamis of change for women in the Muslim world.
Kathleen Parker (September 26, 2008):
"If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.
If Palin were a man, we’d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she’s a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.
What to do?
McCain can’t repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP’s unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden.
Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.
Do it for your country."
All the so-called conservatives who dissed Palin are petulant knuckleheads who couldn't run a district, much less a state. Nevertheless, this is a movie everyone should see.
Yikes, the first thing I see when I log on is KP. Sorry, I hope someone else writes whatever this article is about, cause not going to read KP.
I remember that. That article got huge play in every big liberal paper for days. Very, very upsetting.
Yup and it's just as incorrect and stupid now as it was when she wrote it.
I wonder how Ms. Parker feels knowing she was part of the media hit squad that treated Sarah Palin like garbage? And I wonder how Ms. Parker can write an article like this with the knowledge that she herself had a hand in keeping a well qualified woman from a historic place in our country.
How Ms. Parker can talk about women's rights with a straight face is beyond me.
Yup and it's just as incorrect and stupid now as it was when she wrote it.
I wonder how Ms. Parker feels knowing she was part of the media hit squad that treated Sarah Palin like garbage? And I wonder how Ms. Parker can write an article like this with the knowledge that she herself had a hand in keeping a well qualified woman from a historic place in our country.
How Ms. Parker can talk about women's rights with a straight face is beyond me.
Agreed.
And this sounds like a very important film, it's on my list.
Obviously Ms Parker was "playing to her audience" Kind of like now. Talk about a suck up.
Agreed. I read her criticism several times when it came out, and the more I did, the more it struck me as pure BS. There was no account given for the gotcha-journalism, for the gutter journalism and rumor mongering that was going on, for the pure slanders that were being made against Palin on a daily basis, or to the fact that Biden AND Obama were proving to be much worse than Palin but the media overlooked all of their mistakes.
She even bought into the idea that Alaska was a small state. Well, it's a hell of a lot bigger than the NOTHING Obama ran.
This article lacks the cutesy, twee tone that KP usually uses when being dismissive of things she considers to be of great moral importance or outrage. What gives?
Too bad that Ms. Parker was the one to write this article. Her presence diminishes what is actually an important story.
It's like getting Ted Kennedy to write about the evils of alcohol.
Well, Ms. Parker is writing articles like this BECAUSE of her treatment of Governor Palin. Parker is trying to get back some conservative street cred by any means possible. Too bad it won't work, for we saw how she turned her back on a successful wife and mother whose only political crime was to not bow down to the Beltway royals in the GOP.
I've been reading Ms. Parker's column in my local paper for a couple of years now. I find her to be intelligent, humorous, informative, and an excellent writer. I was dumbfounded with her attacks on Gov. Palin. If Ms. Parker's opinion of the governor was formed solely on MSM reporting, its no wonder she has such a negative opinion, that was the MSM's goal.
Too bad Ms. Parker hadn't done some research on her own. Some clips from the Couric interview made it off the cutting room floor and on to YouTube. CBS obviously did a hatchet job on purpose.
So in my opinion Ms. Parker was either uninformed, or else one of the haughty conservatives who prefer to be in the polite minority rather than be seen as rocking the boat.
I guess only time will tell.
The media STILL overlooks their mistakes!!
But Sarah Palin is still a prime target for vicious attacks. How do people like Kathleen Parker sleep at night knowing what they've done??
Well said….
Lots and lots of valium and Johnny Walker Red
This is a great piece. Thanks, Kathleen! I will see 'Soraya' when it comes out, too. Opening day.
The stoning scene may not be as tough on me as for others. I've been reporting on Iran's horrendous human rights record vis-a-vis women and gays for some time now, most recently here at BH. By necessity, I have had to watch stoning and hanging videos as part of my research. Gut-wrenching brutal stuff, on a par with the AQ beheading videos. You never get used to it. Nor should you.
But people must see it. We must not shy from the truth, no matter how horrific. Only by confronting it in all its ugliness can we be moved to stop it. That said, I am very encouraged by events in Iran, which are driven by modernist young (and yes, pro-American) Iranians who are sick of the Mad Mullah thugocracy.
As just a minor example, I am providing a link to a disturbing video of a young Iranian woman being brutalized for an Islamic 'clothing violation' that is approaching 6000 hits on my Digital Journal account. By the way, the 'clothing police' are called the Gasht Ershad. Yeah, I thought Gestapo, too. Not far off.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/254848
Again, great piece, K. Would like to see a lot more like it. Free Iran!
Yup, she's been a sucker for the left-wing media for years!
Spot on analogy!
I'd be much happier if Parker followed Letterman's example and made a public apology to Palin. Or she could fly up to Alaska, and deliver it in person.
However, good article.
I'm not sure I'll watch it for some of the same reasons I didn't watch Passion. Some things while good, are too much for me.
It's not working because once a traitor always a traitor. Kind of like Arlen Specter, No cred.
Parker is a country club Republican and it is these folk who are the greatest threat to conservatism. The old sop that we need 'to move to the center' to get elected is just a way to lose; no one needs 'liberal lite', and if there is no differences people stay home… she is an intellectual featherweight as well so ignoring her will do all of us well.
Ugh. This blog has Kathleen Parker on it now? Gross.
I totally agree with that. Same thing with Powell. Once you endorse the democrat, you're done with us.
You see what happens??
What is actually a well written piece on a very important topic gets marginalized because the writer is untrustworthy. When the writer is guilty of character assassination on a woman like Sarah Palin, she forfeits any credibility when writing about women's rights.
It's a damn shame.
Where were these voices and this passion when the US and its allies were overthrowing the Iraqi dictator and trying to bring freedom to an oppressed country? One could suggest that the change in Iran is due primarily to the changes in Iraq and Afghanistan. And thanks in large part to the US Military. Is it okay now to support the war?
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BH has officially jumped the shark. Kathleen Parker is an idiot of the first water. She is the Right's equivalent of Ellen Goodman. I have been reading (and mostly despising) her writing since she first showed up on Townhall.com. Her attacks on Palin got her face on all the right TV shows because she's another McCain type Repub. who likes to bash Repubs. And her antics wound up getting her musings picked up by the Washington Post. She has earned all the disdain conservatives can heap upon her.
AMEN! Great explanation of Parker.
Imagine how aghast she will be to learn that her article is posted at the conservative Big Hollywood website—she won't be able to go out for a week! After all her hard work bashing Sarah Palin, she might find herself a pariah again among the "cool kids."
good piece on a important topic. The Iranians are finally getting brave. Hopefully it won't take us 30 years after
"The One" to regain our Freedoms.
Exactly!
Will always wonder why she did it…..jealousy, perhaps?
Whereas I agree with your assessment of Ms. Parker, try to be a little easier on BH. This blog is about Hollywood, and her column brings to light a very important film. After all, a broken clock is right twice a day
I would venture to say, "Once you endorse the LIBERAL…" I find myself still supportive of Zell Miller
100% agree, K. Parker forfeits any credibility when writing about women's rights after her dispicable character assassination on a woman like Sarah Palin. I am disappointed to see her picked up by BH even though the subject is of value.
Either jealousy or a shameless pandering to a liberal audience. Who the hell knows. Either way, she trashes an intelligent and kind woman and then talks out of the other side of her mouth about the virtues of Iranian women.
Sorry, but it's like the unfaithful spouse that's trying to slip back into the bedroom with you. Someone else should've written this article so the focus would be on the important topic and not on an untrustworthy writer.
Here's the trailer for the film:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/20...
Last year's Value Voters Summit had a panel with some of the cast and crew. The best known on the panel was Shohreh Aghdashloo of "24" fame.
The panelists explained that they created "Stoning" to expose the cruel sexism in many Muslim countries (e.g., Iran). They added that few in Hollywood wanted to film the movie due to REAL fear of ticking off the jihadist types. After all, diehard Muslims have a habit of beheading their critics.
So, we should support "The Stoning" cast and crew with our prayers as well as our money. They aren't celebs who say the defend human rights while kissing up to tyrants:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/...
Those involved in "The Stoning" are REAL heroes for standing against evil no matter the danger.
You've got to be kidding me BIG HOLLYWOOD. Kathleen Parker is a hypocrite (and a Palin Basher.) Shouldn't she be writing for the Huffington Post or the Daily KOS? I never heard of her until she started attacking Gov. Palin during the 2008 Election.
She writes an article about an upcoming movie in which a brave Iranian women gets stoned to death. Too bad because in reality, she's one of the "stone throwers' trying to destroy a brave woman's political career. That brave woman is Gov. Sarah Palin.
I totally agree with you, Dom_Cloangelo. First of all she just isn't that intelligent. She plays with interesting and colorful words, but the ideas are totally vapid. But the thing that really pisses me off is how she discovered that people would actually know who "Kathleen Parker" is if she attacked Sarah Palin (being a nominal conservative). And now everyone knows her name! Look at her career soar! Well, the fact is, nobody actually cares about what you have to say unless you happen to going off on another unhinged rant about Palin.
Note to BH: don't publish her stuff. I don't care if this post is good or not. And it is not that I am against having people with different opinions post. Hell, get Bill Maher to post here for all I care. But this woman is a lowlife simpleton who acted disgracefully towards someone whom a lot of the readership likes. I think she is kind of persona non grata here.
So disappointing to see Kathleen Parker given space here.
Parker, and others like her dance a lot- she can be quite conservative- but ultimately she subscribed to the same formula all metro types do; namely only urbane and witty Cosmo types have valuable opinions, and Ivy League educations surpass real world experience; her take on Palin was not only wrong but disgustingly so…
well said, Aggie.. I will say that while I do appreciate Ms. Parker passing along this story (hmm.. i may have to find out where that film is playing.. and I'm not much up for dramas as such)…she still has a long way to go (if it's ever possible) to overcome her "discrediting" stuff on Palin…
But this is another of those cases, where I will overlook the messenger to see the message..
Isnt this the chick who attacks her own in order to get on TV?
Thank you for the proper perspective.
Bill Maher of all people expressed by disgust over Obama's never-ending TV appearances. So, I'm going to give Maher his props.
Similarly, though I loathe her unjust attacks on Gov. Palin, Parker's view of the recent uprising in Iran is one I agree with.
Yes, and it's a damn shame she decided to write about something important cause all we're talking about is her instead of the topic.
maybe that was her intention….
Yes, and it's a damn shame she decided to write about something important cause all we're talking about is her instead of the topic.
maybe that was her intention….
Assuaging white guilt, maybe? Though jealousy ranks right up there too.
kathleen parker is one of those that gave us obozo, the America hating prez – kathie parker-go tell it to the dkooks
I remember this… it makes me fume as much now as it did then. Now I can't even comment on the content of this post because I can't separate the writer from the subject.
Kathleen Parker? Really? Good grief. What, did John Ridley miss a deadline or something?
No, thank you.
I'll read it….with a jaundiced eye……
Join the club. We seem to be running about 10-1 with that same view.
Forget Kathleen Parker.
Ever since I saw the trailer on the internet, I've been impatiently waiting to see this. I know it's going to be cold and hard and brutal, but here's hoping that the film will open even more eyes to the brutality that is Islam.
Parker = Goodman
ROTFLMAO
You're exactly right, Dom. I have a hard time forgiving her treatment of Sarah Palin. Still do. She doesn't answer her email, either.
Kathleen – take your Elitist Rockefeller Republican a**, cross the aisle AND STAY THERE!
Juke – that's exactly who she is…and all she'll ever be. Why she keeps trying to get CONSERVATIVE approval boggles my mind – indicative of a neurotic, I suppose? Wish she'd get some backbone and just stay with the Obamaniacs.
Funny. I didn't even know who Kathleen Parker was when I read this, had no ideological coloring for me. I thought it was a well-written piece on a very important subject. John Nolte must have as well. Why all the hostility?
If Paul Krugman wrote a sensible article for once, I'd give him credit, too. Though I'm not holding my breath on that one. Come on, guys, give credit where credit is due. Even a broken ideological clock is right twice a day. I've had a bunch of gay rights advocates who can't stand my or BH's political bents credit us for reporting on the anti-gay pogroms in Iran and Iraq like they wish the Left would. Let's be nice, not Lefties, OK?
As for tinfoil trolls like Auntie and Blubba that patrol here, that's different. Fire at will.
What is happening is the good citizens of Iran are sick and tired of 30 years of systemic oppression and of being the world's pariah… —-
If they wish to throw off the thuggy mullahs, I'm behind it 100%. Other than that, the above is true: Thug#1 = Thug#2. Good post d.
After doing her best last Fall to sabotage the Republican ticket and help elect Barack Obama, Parker devotes most of her column space nowadays to ripping into social conservatives, particularly religious ones, using remarkably insulting language (referring to religious conservatives as "oogedy boogedy" types, for example). She's nothing more than a Meghan McCain clone and beyond useless.
There is no shortage of writers making any good point Parker might accidentally stumble upon without having to waste a moment's indulgence on her worthless blatherings.
or Black, or Hispanic, or Gay, or…………
Sorry Kathleen. You can't pick and choose the women you admire and champion. All or nothing.
The Nazi's occupied a great deal of the middle east and north africa before being driven out in WWII and I think that we are still seeing the after-effects and cultural reflections of those ideologies that were left behind from that period. Not to say that there was no barbarism there to begin with even well before the Nazi's occupied, but the manner in which many governments behave in the middle east today is eerily familiar and references to the Gestapo like tactics may not be all that far off the mark.
Very correct. It is in the interest, or should be, of any blog to be accurate and fair. I am not opposed to articles from anyone, except the loons from KOS St.. I think everyone is venting a little of thier displeasure with Ms. Parker and I understand that. So am I.
Ouch.. i forgot about the "oogedy boogedy" comment, Kensignton until you mentioned it… it is a shame, she makes a good point, and it's kind of ignored because of her previous attacks…
Real women VS Michelle Obama and hillary. I'll take real women thank you.
Bear in mind that Parker will almost certainly respond to criticism of her here as evidence of her own martyrdom (at the hands of the aforementioned "oogedy boogedy" types).
So did I refer to her as a Meghan McCain clone? Make that a "less appealing" Meghan McCain clone, if you can imagine such a thing.
It is no accident this movie and others like "Taking Chance" were released after President Bush left office. After all, "The Stoning" was written in 1994, and Col Stroebl's account of escorting LCpl Chance Phelps was documented in 2004.
Now, with TEH MESSIAH ™ in the White House, movies can be uplifting and patriotic again.
Frankly, I don't think she can make up for the character assassination on Governor Palin, though it is rather amusing to watch her try
Yes, she was, and as far as I'm concerned her article here is as welcome as David Letterman at a middle school dance. (Rim shot!)
Once a person like Parker unveils their true, elitist, anti-American agenda that includes a contempt and revulsion towards the people she considers her inferiors, the mask cannot be put back in place.
Please, don't let her peddle her tainted wares here.
I won't read Kathleen Parker anymore after her blatant Palin bashing. Sorry she is writing for BH, but I just plan to skip anything she writes.
Oh the article was a well written piece. I posted that earlier. But it loses it's punch when you consider the person that wrote it attacked Sarah Palin with complete rubbish. Ms. Parker's statements were paraded around the lefty circles as proof positive that Sarah Palin was dumb. Ms. Parker did a lot of damage to Sarah Palin and her family.
And now Ms. Parker tries to sound off on women's rights?? C'mon…..So where's Ted Kennedy and his article on the evils of drinking booze??
Let's say Paul Krugman started writing about how wonderful the capitalist movement was in China. Would you honestly take that seriously? After all the socialism that man has spouted? Would you honestly be able to separate the article from the writer??
Sorry but Ms. Parker is not trustworthy especially when it comes to supporting women.
Okay, ya talked me into it. I don't like her now, either. Happy?
I noticed that. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who is bothered by cheap shots taken at an obvious target.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Hey it's cool if you like her, I just want you to understand where the dislike comes from.
Of course Kathleen Parker will take the criticism she recieves here and claim martyrdom. She has already done so once before in her famous "oogedy-boogedy" column. Here is the pertinant passage:
"So it has been for the Grand Old Party since the 1980s or so, as it has become increasingly beholden to an element that used to be relegated to wooden crates on street corners. (referring to religous Christians-Dom)
Short break as writer ties blindfold and smokes her last cigarette.
Which is to say, the GOP has surrendered its high ground to its lowest brows. In the process, the party has alienated its non-base constituents, including other people of faith (those who prefer a more private approach to worship), as well as secularists and conservative-leaning Democrats who otherwise might be tempted to cross the aisle. "
I read an article awhile ago suggesting Parker may be the next Arianna Huffington. If find that idea well within the realm of [possibility.
Aggie, I have no problem with making known the importance of this film. None at all. And BH can have anyone they like as authors. But I would say the same things about Ms.Parker (and Have) even when her work appears at National Review Online. It was not her idea of the Republican Party that was responsible for the electoral sucesses from Reagan on down. In fact her ideas of what the Republican Party should be are responsible for the defeats the party suffered. People like Ms. Parker are more than a peeve to me.
Quite understandable, Dom. We tend not to suffer elitists from either side of the aisle gladly
I hope she becomes the next Arianna Huffington. At the very least, I hope she doesn't post any more articles here.
John, is it your understanding that the current Iranian youth block, say 30 and under, are Pro U.S.? I hope so. I have heard this thrid, fourth and fifth hand.
A little leadership, some courage, and a few words from the President of the United States could go a long way toward providing some moral support.
Remember when President Reagan went on TV and asked Americans to put a candle in the window for the Solidarity Union when it was being brutally surpressed in Poland?
Pretty sharp move, BH – bring on a "conservative" writer that most Conservatives despise not only for her treatment of Palin, but for her adoration of then Sen-Obama during the campaign, and watch the commenters go berzerker. It's a free country and a free site, but if Parker becomes a regular, I'll be saying sayanora – she gets enough media exposure bashing the likes, tastes and intellects of the people who compose the bulk of your readership, she doesn't need any more exposure here.
I'm sure we'll be reading a column from her shortly noting that the commenters at BH 'anonymously threatened' her. What a poor editorial choice.
Kathleen Parker …ewww… this is beneath your dignity, wasting your enlightened point of view on “Flyover Americans,” Neanderthals, knuckle-draggers, clueless dolts that pay for and bleed for the USA. Your attacks on Sarah Palin along with the sniveling gaggle of witless liberal MSM sycophants are largely responsible for this monstrosity of an administration this country is suffering through. Shame on you and all your high brow “reporter” snobs, thanks a pant load.
Write what you want, get it published where you can.
At the end of the day, you're still persona non grata to conservatives and a just a useful idiot to liberals.
Hope the ride on O-Force One was worth it.
Please Brietbart NO MORE Kathleen Parker. She has a home for her views at Huffington Post.
I am so disappointed that Big Hollywood is featuring Kathleen Parker. This is the gal who went after Sarah Palin, then whined and complained that the grassroots didn't like her. KP didn't stop there, though, she called us evanglical, "oogedy boogedy", right wingers.
Stay on the pages of the Washington Post, Kathleen. They like their Republicans liberal over there.
BH, If you continue to feature this person, I will not return to this site, or patronize your advertisers.
As much as I don't care for Parker, who gets syndicated in the Knoxville paper as a Republican voice, I'm glad you got back to the point which is that this sounds like an important must see film even if it is incredibly disturbing.
she is an elitist suck-up kind of like Peggy Noonan.
Unfortunately, Obama has chosen to send out a message that he sees it as an electoral dispute. O.K. we are not willing to go to war with Iran, but he has chosen to discourage the protestors and thinks they are not really any different than the regime currently in place. He thinks he can "charm" Iran into seeing things his way and they just laugh at him behind his back
Let's not forget that this woman is married to the man that was responsible for beginning the Iranian nuclear weapons program(through A.Q. Khan). Let's not turn this woman into mother Theresa just yet.
Yes. Kathleen Parker proved herself either ignorant or a liar in regards to Palin. Not worth my time to read Parker's work these days. I'd have to corroborate before I'd believe anything from her.
Agreed. When I read her article stating that Palin should quit the campaign as McCain's running mate I thought, "This lady isn't living in reality." Parker was SOOOOOOOO incredibly wrong about Palin that I stopped reading articles by her. I didn't realize she authored this article until I saw these posts. She might be right about the film, but I don't respect Parker.
I liked Kathleen Parker before she started hanging out with Chrissy Matthews.
I dare say when she finds out that the Big Hollywood readers are mostly pro-'Cuda, she'll tell Andrew "thanks, but no thanks -I'll write for the Daily Beast instead." Tina Brown seems to have already scooped up most of the Mushy Middle "Republican" writers so why not add one more.
I'd kick Peggy out of the airplane before Kathleen. Peggy knows if Ronnie came back from the grave today, he wouldn't piss on her if she were on fire.
Everyone talks about Palin's vocal problems. She is Alistaire Cooke compared to Noonan. It's like watching a slow motion freak show. You can go wash the car AND cook lunch for the family before Noonan has finished just a few sentences. Why didn't her parents send her to a speech therapist when she was a young girl? Who talks like that?
There's hope for Kathleen coming around to the "right" team. I see no hope for Peggy. She's still bucking for O's press secretary's job -post Gibbs.
Very true dcase!
For those of us old enough to remember 1979, this is not the same thing. So many people are thinking these youngsters are no different than the 1979 bunch. But there is a large difference. The goals are different. This rebellion is about getting rid of the oppression.
I believe they thought Mousavi was the first stepping stone to beginning the reform. The mullahs and Imadinnerjacket goofed big time by stealing the election. The key to all this is Rafsanjani. He has the power to further weaken the mullahs, and capitalize on the divided Republican Guard.
When they brought in Hamas and Hezbollah from Gaza and elsewhere, I think that really ticked them off. If this goes on for 2 weeks, then we might see a clearer picture of what the outcome is going to be. I fear the death toll is going to go much higher.
Mousavi invented Hezbollah and started the nuclear program. He is no better that is for sure, but at this juncture I see little evidence he is going to be the winner. They could get Imadinnerjacket back from Russia.
On the plus side, this gives Israel more time to prepare and Bibi will have a little pressure lifted long enough to further unify the Likud party in case that whacked out Livni tries to create trouble.
I would like to add here, a thought which will cause all the trolls heads to explode, and it goes like this, these people are rioting because of what they have seen take place in Iraq. They have for years had the advantage of one President Bush who spoke often about freedom, and the fact it is something all countries, all men, all women and the world should have because their Creator said so. It was one George Bush who demonstrated Americans would strongly support any peoples fighting for freedom. He gave these people hope for a better future. I think it took! May the Linda Blair head spinning commence!
FYI, if you are following any of this on Twitter, make sure you change over to Tehran time. It gives cover for those who really are Tweeting from Iran.
+ 1,000 and then some!
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