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SOME OF YOU READERS OF THIS BLOG ARE LIKELY TO AGREE THAT THIS PARTICULAR SENTIMENT APPLIES TO YOUR CORRESPONDENT, especially those who see "society" qualified by a concept based on Neocon/Fascisti models (think Fox Prolefeed here) as excuse certain crude and offensive stereotypes being played against minorities and the vulnerable.

Among them such with psychoemotional disorders not rabbiting in the sheltered-workshop system (as if hoping such will "keep their mouths shut" towards a Greater Collective Good based on a deliberately ignorant brand of orthodoxy epitomised by the Newspeak term "goodthoughtful").

Such stereotypes essentially suggests that the Lower Classes can find work, but "aren't making any reasonable efforts" to do so, knowing that jobs are out there in the community when facts suggest otherwise. Or, put another way, are you expecting such who can't find work to consider selling Quixtar/Amway, unaware that the pyramid's likely to collapse any time now?

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SEEMS AS IF G-D CAN'T LEAVE THE "BIBLE BELT" ALONE, AND THEN SOME--as in the same areas of Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama as were devastated by tornadoes back in February seeing a new round of tornadic destruction over the last couple of days.

As if He doesn't take too kindly for such supporting the Pseudoreligiopolitical Right and its articles of faith, never mind their agenda probably crossing the line into blasphemy and sacrelige--and worse.

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FIRST, IT WAS THE DANISH GAZETTA JYLLANDS-POSTEN ... LOOKS AS IF WORLDNETDAILY COULD BE THE NEXT target of Islamic wrath over displaying the "graven image" of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in connexion with a forthcoming book release.

ConWebWatch explains how such targeted provocation is nothing short of deliberate on WorldNetDaily's part:

Joseph Farah certainly knows how to milk outrage for maximum publicity effect. Why else would he try to turn an incorrect claim made about him into a way to plug WorldNetDaily's newest book?

An April 21 WorldNetDaily article detailed WND Books' upcoming title, "Why We Left Islam," edited by Susan Crimp and Joel Richardson. The article eagerly points out that it's "the first U.S. book ever to feature an image of Muhammad on the cover." WND claims the book "contains brutally honest testimonies from former Muslims who have left the religion despite the threat of death. 'Why We Left Islam' shows the potentially ugly realities of living under the Islamic yoke." The article then goes on to cite some pre-emptive criticism of the book (repeated in an April 22 article):

"This book is put out by WND Publishing (sic), which promotes hate every day on its extremist anti-Muslim hate site," Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the New York Daily News. "The editor is a guy who suggested air-dropping pig's blood over Afghanistan. There are 7 million American Muslims and over a billion worldwide who love Islam and practice it peaceably on a daily basis."

Joseph Farah, an Arab-American and the only person ever to serve as editor of WND, said, in response, he has never advocated air-dropping pig's blood over Afghanistan.

"CAIR can always be counted upon to make wildly untruthful and reckless claims about others, while maintaining a hypersensitivity about its own concerns," said Farah. "Here, for example, Hooper makes this claim that WND promotes anti-Muslim hate on its site every day, offering only one example – and that one is totally untrue. Why other responsible media outlets continue to offer CAIR a platform for making such outrageous statements is beyond me. How many CAIR staffers and officials need to be indicted and convicted before my colleagues recognize these people as the extremists they are?" 

But CAIR's claim is not as "totally untrue" as Farah portrays it. While Farah did not personally make the statement Hooper alleged, on Sept. 27, 2001, WND did publish a column by then-WND reporter Paul Sperry offering the following plan on how to defeat the Taliban:

Few in Washington want to admit it, but these Islamic fanatics have baited us into a holy war. And like it or not, we'll have to use their religion against them to win.

U.S. forces should start by dropping leaflets over Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, warning residents, in their native Persian tongue, that we've enlisted Afghani moles to contaminate their water supplies with pig's blood.

The propaganda would also warn that American soldiers have greased their bullets with pork fat. We could tell them, while we're at it, that we've ordered special pigskin-lined fatigues for this mission.

At night, we could bombard bin Laden's camps with recordings of hog-snorting. If he and his fellow terrorists won't come out of their caves, send pen-loads of trotters in to nuzzle them.

Can't find bin Laden? Force-feed Taliban clerics pork rinds until they give up his location. If that doesn't work, air-lift pigs into their homes.

In the meantime, airlines could reupholster plane seats with pigskin, and cover cockpit yokes with the "unclean" hide to repel future Islamic hijackers. For insurance, serve passengers bacon bits instead of peanuts.

If their religion is driving them to hate Americans, and rewarding them to kill our people, then it's hardly indecent to use their faith against them to protect us.

Hit them where it hurts. They hit us where it hurts – and they're already planning to do it again.

They're not afraid of death. However, they are afraid of pigs. Send in the porkers, lock them out of Paradise, and watch them surrender.

Editor's note: Letters threatening physical harm to WorldNetDaily.com staffers will be forwarded to FBI Deputy Director Tom Pickard, who is heading the PENTTBOM investigation at the Special Information and Operation Center in Washington. 

For Farah to narrowly defend himself and portray CAIR's claim as completely baseless is disingenuous and a cynical attempt to sell books. Since WND is, for all practical purposes, less a "news" website than a platform to advance the personal views and agenda of its founder and editor--Farah--it's a logical assumption that Farah condones, if not approves, such actions, however much he tries to invoke some sort of plausible deniability.

Farah then went on to add: "If Muslims rioted around the world after a Danish newspaper published a political cartoon making fun of Muhammad, what will they do in response to this?"

Of course, the only reason to put Muhammad on the cover of a book is to be provocative--and, thus, gin up book sales from the controversy. Seeing the Danish controversy with dollar signs in his eyes, Farah obviously wanted to get the same reaction for WND Books' latest title, and what better way to generate some cheap publicity than a little religious blasphemy? (Hey, it worked for Madonna.) It seems that Farah is almost begging for those riots so he can sell more books.

Farah ratcheted things up in an April 24 column, declaring that "I never suggested, stated, hinted or even thought about air-dropping pig's blood over Afghanistan," announced he was "publicly demand[ing] a correction be issued" and asking his readers for advice on whether he should sue CAIR and the New York Daily News for libel--but never mentioning Sperry's WND column.

But then again, there's always the possibility that such outrage by Muslims as Mr. Farah imagineth could be a blessing in disguise, so to speak, for such critics of the conservative perversion of "new media," based all the more upon misguided ideological convictions reinforced by lies, doublethink and offensive stereotypes.

Especially considering where the likely target, ultimately, is a conservative "news portal" holding Islamophobia as a Holy of Holies in serving the (howbeit warped) defence of such a failed concept as the White Male Christian Power Structure, fuelled for the most part by alcohol, drugs, gaming debts and/or failing to come to terms with childhood psychoemotional or psychosexual abuse.

Besides, how would psychoemotional abuse help with "character development"?

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MR. "NO-SPIN ZONE," CAUGHT IN HIS OWN LIE (AGAIN!), with thanks to Think Progress for the hat tip:

[On the 29th ultimate], Fox News host Bill O'Reilly made the incredible claim that the United States never invaded Iraq: "We didn't invade Iraq." He added, "It was a declaration of war, it was a declaration to enforce the first Gulf War Treaty."

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Despite O'Reilly's revisionist history, the United States did invade Iraq. The U.S. military forcefully entered the country in order to overthrow that nation's leader. That's an invasion. During a 2006 speech, President Bush discussed his administration's "two major invasions as a part of the war on terror."

Even O'Reilly himself has, in the past, admitted that the United States invaded Iraq: