Wednesday, April 04, 2007

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.

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6 Comments:

At 04 April, 2007 19:10, Blogger James B. said...

I noticed that. On 911 Blogger they were complaining that they only had 10,000 signatures for a petition which called for the administration to release notes from a meeting in July 2001. It wasn't even LIHOP, and they still couldn't get support for it. 84% indeed.

 
At 04 April, 2007 21:01, Blogger The Artistic Macrophage said...

I think that 84% is really 84% of the 9/11 truth movement believes 9/11 was an inside job.

TAM;);)

 
At 04 April, 2007 22:06, Blogger Unknown said...

Jonah Goldberg is a jackass.

 
At 05 April, 2007 04:00, Blogger b. j. edwards said...

Booger News Network is getting word from insiders that Rosie, Alex Jones, and Jim Fetzer are victims of a conspiracy code-named "Diapergate."

Stay tuned.

 
At 05 April, 2007 08:07, Blogger shawn said...

Christ, bg, the first site on that list is Juan Cole's hilariously named "Informed Comment".

You know, the Israel hater and Mahmoud apologist.

 
At 05 April, 2007 12:00, Blogger Der Bruno Stroszek said...

Is Rosie the new ee cummings?

 

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