With all the looniness attendant to CPAC so much in the air, I made a rare visit over to Atlas Shrugs to get a good whiff of the odor of wingnut braincells popping and frying (usually I satisfy myself with checking in at Sadly, No to see what the fringers are up to). And sure, it's hilarious to us in the "reality based" community to see the freakazoids all riled up and hoopin' and hollerin' and such, but one item in particular caught my eye and led to a fun evening of Googling to try and see "where the truth lies".
That the Obama Administration's appointment of Charles W. Freeman, Jr. to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council makes the more slavishly pro-Israel right wing nuts is not news. But some of their unhappiness finds expression in the craziest ways-
His MEPC political action group publishes a Workbook that teaches our children that the Muslims discovered the "New World" and the "Indians" who met he(sic) English Explorers all had Muslim names.
I give you a tale that includes the father of the father of cybernetics and the Islamic conspiracy to wreck our very own American history as abetted by Charles Freeman.
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