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So William Bennett formulates the perfect wingnut polling question:

William J. Bennett: I know what the polling says. You don’t poll a war. But if you want a poll, here’s the one I’d write and we’ll see what response it gets: “Do you support pulling troops from Iraq if you know a bloodbath will follow and al Qaeda will declare victory?” Poll that question please. It’s the most accurate prognostication you can get.

To which JRod replies:

Buckley’s losing it. Here’s a far better question to reveal Americans’ true feelings on the war: “Do you support pulling troops from Iraq if you know that millions of ponies will die? Pink ones and purple ones with glittery hair, and even one with a pretty rainbow for a mane. The fancy-prancy ponies will be ground up for glue! Oh, and al Qaeda will cannibalize your family and rape your dog. Is that what you want, sissy-mary?” This question also filters out any liberal bias of the type that has skewed the polls slightly against the war, which is why you won’t see it on CNN.

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Yesterday it was illegal immigrants tag teaming with Satan in Utah, today it's Glenn Beck frothing at the mouth about yet another New World Order:

"Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. The goal is the United Nations running the world. That is the goal. Back in the 1930s, the goal was get rid of all of the Jews and have one global government." He continued: "You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler's plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore's enemy, the U.N.'s enemy: global warming." Beck added: "Then you get the scientists -- eugenics. You get the scientists -- global warming. Then you have to discredit the scientists who say, 'That's not right.' And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did."

Check that out, I mean it's so chock full of the crazy it's almost a work of art. One imagines Mr. Beck's mental landscape looks like something out of an Escher print.



My favorite bits are all at the end: "Then you get the scientists -- eugenics. You get the scientists -- global warming." Scientists = eugenics? WTF And "Then you have to discredit the scientists who say, 'That's not right.' And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did." So if I tell someone the Earth isn't flat am I also signing on with the Nazi party? Seriously, WTF? And can anybody explain to me how even in this equation fighting global warming = genocide 'cause I'm totally not getting that.