From the AP via The Seattle Post Intelligencer is a story headlined: Muslims press U.N. for truce in Lebanon.

One of the Muslims calling for that truce is the President of Iran:

“Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate ceasefire must be implemented,” Ahmadinejad said, according to Iranian television.

As Mel said the other day, it’s “a world that seems to have gone mad,” (but I don’t think he was talking about this particular aspect).

I’m reminded of something Limbaugh was doing on his radio show yesterday — playing a tape from Anderson Cooper’s show on CNN, where Cooper is talking to Jeffrey Goldberg of New York magazine, and both are marveling over an interesting fact they seem just to be uncovering for themselves.

Text from Rush’s site:

Cooper says, “I think what’s been lost in a lot of this coverage is just how anti-Semitic Hezbollah is in the rhetoric.”

GOLDBERG [replies]: It’s absolutely fascinating, Anderson, the anti-Semitism. There’s two things that are fascinating about it. One is how embedded in the core of Hezbollah ideology anti-Semitism is. And I don’t mean anti-Israel thinking or anti-Zionism. I mean frank, anti-Semitism. The other thing that’s so interesting about it is how blunt they are and how frank they are about their anti-Semitism. They don’t hide it. They don’t try to mask it in any way. They state very openly to you when you ask their exact feelings about Jews, which are quite extreme.

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Cooper says, “Nasrallah himself is very point blank and matter of fact and open about his hatred of Jews.”

GOLDBERG [replies]: One of the things about Nasrallah that’s so interesting is how straightforward he is. And you see that in all of his statements on Israel and even his statements on America. There’s no attempt to soften the language. And the other thing about it that’s so shocking, I think, when you first hear it, is I always notice this, one of the first things I noticed, was the use of epidemiological metaphors to describe the role of Jews in the world, not just Israel but Jews, talking about Jews as a cancer, talking about Jews as a parasite on society.

Yesterday, Rush had me rolling on the floor listening to this stuff. But after the laughter is spent … the realization of the depth of stupidity out there, even amongst those whose living is made by following and reporting on current events, is more than a little depressing and debilitating.

Then this morning to wake up to this:

More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.

The national survey of 1,010 adults also found that anger against the federal government is at record levels, with 54 percent saying they “personally are more angry” at the government than they used to be.

Widespread resentment and alienation toward the national government appear to be fueling a growing acceptance of conspiracy theories about the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Suspicions that the 9/11 attacks were “an inside job” — the common phrase used by conspiracy theorists on the Internet — quickly have become nearly as popular as decades-old conspiracy theories that the federal government was responsible for President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and that it has covered up proof of space aliens.

Although I think that both the poll and the reporting about it is deeply flawed ( “took no action to stop”? — well, everyone knows that no action did stop the terrorists that day, other than the passengers of Flight 93), nevertheless it can’t but be disturbing. The cause and effect of people getting news information from talking heads as fundamentally ignorant as the above bozos on CNN has to be considered. The failure of President Bush and his administration to consistently and articulately explain the nature of the war with jihadism and the strategy being pursued to win it is also responsible, to an extent, for the flourishing of conspiracy theories. Ironically, Bush has been doing a better job of articulating it in his second term, but the toxic seeds of Michael Moore and a small army of seemingly insignificant kooks out there are apparently bearing their poisonous fruit.

It’s amazing. People like Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah can bluntly say what their entire purpose is — destroying Israel and the Jews — and that crucial truth gets sidelined amidst so much other noise about ceasefires and grievances and resolutions and nonsense. Meanwhile, insane lies can be made up by numbskulls about a controlled demolition of the WTC and missiles hitting the Pentagon, and these things lurk out there and grow and grow and turn into Frankenstein monsters.

Yep, Mel, it’s a world gone mad alright! Pass me the tequila.

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