Pajamas Media BWIR with Michael Ledeen on Iran

During my morning run, hours before "Mad Mahmoud" Ahmadinejad did the seemingly impossible by making a mockery the United Nations by giving a speech in front of the suspect body, I listened to the latest Pajamas Blog Week in Review podcast. Host Austin Bay was joined by Pajamas Media's Michael Ledeen, who calls things as he sees them, and in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ledeen throws plenty of penalty flags.

Ledeen has a new book, The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots' Quest for Destruction

The podcast opens with a discussion of Michael Slackman's September 5 New York Times article, Hard Times Help Leaders in Iran Tighten Grip. Ledeen didn't like the piece and in the podcast declared it "a good candidate for the Walter Duranty award."

Duranty was the New York Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize while serving as Stalin's apologist as he "reported" on the Soviet Union during the unhappy decade of the 1930s. Duranty "overlooked" a famine in the Ukraine that killed 10 million people.

There other wonderful chunks of wisdom to absorb to in this timely podcast. Listen to or download the podcast here. Or do it the Marathon Pundit way and subcribe for free via iTunes.

As always, the podcast is sponsored by Volvo USA and is produced by Pajamas blogger Ed Driscoll.

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