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The one and only reason I am posting this article is because it proved to me, for the first time, there is something seriously wrong with some French people.

Oh, the French aren't the only ones who believe this crap. A whole lot of young Democrats believe it as well. Just troll around on DemUnderground and look for one of their threads about "LIHOP" - (Bush) Let It Happen On Purpose. I want to reiterate, not all of them believe it- but still a lot of 'em do and this goes some way towards explaining the number of hits this French looney gets on his website from the USA.

I'm kind of torn on this. On the one hand, I see it is a brilliant way to just let the lefties self destruct- surely if they believe this kind of crap they would also believe the moon is made of cheese. It could be used as a demonstrable fact that they aren't fit to rule (nor perhaps even to drive a car). In this vein, I think we should get Cynthia McKinney to visit this theory and have her state her official belief in it- obviously discrediting her. The media, at long last, would have to address these lunatic fringe leftists as the psychos that they are and a whole segment of the lefties would get discredited and demonized in the press the way the Christian Right has been. The GOP could appeal to the American public as the "Voice of Reason" in a world gone mad and I figure there are enough rational people left out there who would respond to that.

Imagine being able to refer to that in a Presidential debate- "While my Democratic opponent here has been out chasing UFOs and watching the X-Files, my National Security team has been putting together a realistic and comprehensive plan to deal with this very real threat to our security..."

BUT on the other hand, nowadays I don't have enough faith in the average young person out there not to see why this is an obvious fiction- ie I think a lot of young Americans have been set up to believe this thing, just like they believe Clinton is a saint. I wouldn't want those people voting. Could you imagine Bush not getting reelected because of a bunch of certifiable fruitcakes that believed this theory voted against him?

Unfortunately, it is impossible to say how many really believe this, and how many are just doing it for a joke or to discredit the opposition.

I personally believe there are many trolls and disingenuous people who do not believe it, but spread it anyway in order to make trouble.

I think we should get Cynthia McKinney to visit this theory and have her state her official belief in it- obviously discrediting her.

uhhhhhh........ hate to tell you, but......

The left is already self-destructing. This kind of crap is just evidence of that. I think the loonier it gets, the better things will be for the world in general. And, 200,000 books sold is not a valid representation of French public opinion overall. In fact, all of the people of Europe are more conservative than their leaders. But, this kind of blatant anti-Americanism does serve to put the pervasive low-grade anti-Americanism of the EU and various European countries' leadership in a different perspective (in the same way that low-grade anti-semitism looks different in the context of blatant anti-semitism). From that standpoint, this kind of crap is a very good thing.

"The media, at long last, would have to
address these lunatic fringe leftists as the psychos"

As you point out crazies can only be from the right as portrayed by the media or Hollywood and a prime example is the new Tom Clancy picture "Sum of All Fears" where the Muslim bad guys were changed to Neo-Nazis. Certainly in any group there has to people who are radical and are not in the mainstream – but France is probably more intolerant of the right than any other country I know of.

As you suggested I went to DemUnderground and said this is cool! I thought I’d just sign up and "verbally-blast" a few liberals to get my adrenaline flowing.

>>> From DemUnerground "The purpose of this website is to provide a discussion forum for Democrats and other individuals from the political left. We are building an online movement to effect progressive change in our country. As a privately run website, we are not obligated to give equal time to all points of view." <<<

So conservatives are not allowed and not welcomed. So this is how they view the world as evil conservatives who deserve no voice and liberals cannot be crazies no matter how crazy they really are.

Michael Savage says that liberalism is a mental disease and he probably is correct.