A LITTLE REHABILITATION - AT 9:46 A.M. ET:  Those who read The Angel's Corner at Urgent Agenda know that Roger Cohen of The New York Times has twice won our Pompous Fool Award, in part for serving as an apologist for the Iranian regime.  Now, incredibly, Cohen is in Tehran, and has gotten reports out.  They are actually quite good, and maybe some personal rehabilitation is under way.  Here is a bit:

Just off Revolution Street, I walked into a pall of tear gas. I’d lit a cigarette minutes before — not a habit but a need — and a young man collapsed into me shouting, “Blow smoke in my face.” Smoke dispels the effects of the gas to some degree.

I did what I could and he said, “We are with you” in English and with my colleague we tumbled into a dead end — Tehran is full of them — running from the searing gas and police. I gasped and fell through a door into an apartment building where somebody had lit a small fire in a dish to relieve the stinging.

Well, Roger, it would have been nice had you been with them a little earlier, but we'll take what we can get.  By the way, Cohen also reports:

I also know that Iran’s women stand in the vanguard. For days now, I’ve seen them urging less courageous men on. I’ve seen them get beaten and return to the fray. “Why are you sitting there?” one shouted at a couple of men perched on the sidewalk on Saturday. “Get up! Get up!”

Which makes the silence of American "feminist" groups all the more revolting.  I guess they think Clarence Thomas is the real enemy.  They should pay a price for their cynicism and corruption, and that price should be extracted by American women.

June 21, 2009