Roya Hakakian, a producer at 60 Minutes and author of Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, must be easily amused. Her column in yesterday’s New York Times, “The Ayatollah’s Disarming Wit,” claims that living under Iran’s theocratic regime, “more brutal than the one they overthrew in 1979,” is a barrel of laughs. Those ayatollahs! They’re wacky!
I’m not going to reproduce any of Roya’s gems, because, frankly, her column is the longest string of dogs since Sergeant Preston crossed the Yukon, and if you don’t get that joke I don’t give a fuck. Folks, these jokes had more fleas than Phyllis Diller’s crotch!
Hakakian’s book is about the 1992 assassination of four Kurdish refugees in Berlin. I’m guessing, not that funny.
Afterwords
I won’t neglect to point out that Roya tells us up front that the women in Iran are “stunning”. The women, girlfriend? What about the men?
All kidding aside, is this really the best Hakakian can do? I hope not. And is it the best the Times can do as well? On the up side, at least Hakakian isn’t telling cancer patients how to die.
