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Air America Hosts: Farrakhan Not Wrong on Levees Two hosts at the liberal radio network Air America are defending Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan - saying he's not wrong to suspect that white people deliberately blew up the levees in New Orleans. "You cannot blame people for coming up with conspiracy theories," Air America host Chuck D. said, after he was asked Thursday about the paranoid pronouncement by MSNBC's Tucker Carlson. Carlson gave him a second chance to denounce Farrakhan's lunatic declaration, saying, "You're a smart guy. You know that white people didn't blow up the levees to...

Has anyone noticed how quickly and publicly louis farakan tried to distance himself from the dc snipers, one of whom was evidently a farakan follower. I have always understood that the Nation of Islam's Chicago "mosque" was directly implicated in the "zebra killings"--a series of murders in San Francisco, about twenty years ago. Some police told me there were rumors that farakan could even be id'ed as a participant in some. According to the rumors I heard years ago the fbi was afraid to do follow-up because of concerns about the political fallout and potential 1st amendment issues--clearly understandable if...