Queen of Nuts

As we have long maintained, the 9/11 denial movement is at its heart a non-partisan movement, but a strong argument could be made that the left really has more to lose from it, essentially because it gives conservatives such easy targets, and reduces the credibility of otherwise legitimate political views.

As such, I found a rather humorous editorial from the National Review's Jonah Goldberg:

Renowned metallurgist Rosie O’Donnell proclaimed on TV last Thursday that Sept. 11, 2001, was a more significant date than most of us realized. It was, in her words, “the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel.”

This, of course, came as news to steelworkers, blacksmiths, firefighters, manufacturers of samurai swords, and other fools who hadn’t realized that steel is forged in magic furnaces using dragon breath and pixie dust. O’Donnell made this and other profoundly stupid comments on the daytime talk show The View, ABC’s update of the ancient practice of women chattering around the village well.

The former “queen of nice” seems to think that the show is the perfect venue to audition as grand marshal for the next tinfoil hat parade. And if you visit O’Donnell’s website, you’ll find her application’s supporting materials: all sorts of unadulterated moonbattery presented in the Esperanto of global derangement — a form of instant-message-style free verse. For example, she writes about the British sailors held prisoner in Iran:

the british did it on purpose

into iranian

watersas

US MILITARY BUILD UP ON

THE IRANIAN BORDER

we will be in iran

before summer

as planned

come on people

u have 2 c

i know u can

You may be unfamiliar with such psych-ward stylings, but I get e-mail written like this all the time. Perhaps if you believe the jackbooted thugs are at your door, it’s reasonable to think you don’t have time to spell out your words.