Thursday July 26, 2007

Tres Sheik

Maybe it’s because I was a teenager in the ’80s, but I am loving the re-emergence of The Iron Sheik as a foul-mouthed, beer-swilling maniac. Watch this clip to see what I mean. (Or this one. Or this one.) Howard Stern has been playing all these clips, and the Sheik is set to appear on Stern’s show next Thursday. I’m positively giddy.

A perennial heel, the Sheik was Iranian during the hostage crisis and an Iraqi during the first Gulf War. It perhaps says something about the current conflict that he now comes off like an angry, homophobic Red Stater who is obsessed with B. Brian Blair. Or maybe it doesn’t. It still tickles me.