Silly me. I looked at Technorati's most popular this morning. On the way to an extraordinarily vacuous piece on "The Blogosphere" keeping important stories like Bill Cosby's excoriation of all the Black folks in the world (that's how the right wingers seem to read the situation) by Matt Rosenberg on NRO I would up on an unnamed right wing blog. Said blog linked approvingly to one Delroy "I Wanna Be Dick Cheney When I Grow Up" Murdock, who on June 3, 2004 still trumpets (and I quote) Increasing evidence suggests Saddam ties to 9/11. He says

Fresh evidence suggests the attack on America may have featured Baathist fingerprints.

…and my first reaction was "Nigga, please," but I can't say that. Republicans love playing the race card, and that would distract from the fact that not a single date in the post is later than 2002 and not a single issue raised by Mr. Murdock was not widely reported. In fact, the article, if linked, would have more blue underlines than white space (dag, he's getting all racial again, maaaan…).

So instead I'll mere respond to the closing paragraph:

Absent surveillance footage of Saddam Hussein driving Mohamed Atta to Portland, Maine's airport en route to American Airlines Flight 11, war critics and Bush bashers refuse to believe that Iraq's deposed dictator might have been involved in 9/11.

That's because no one's offered any, like, proof. You know what proof is, don't you?

Still, Baathist files keep offering clues that the carnage of September 11 might not have caught Saddam Hussein totally by surprise.

That's because you keep rereading them and acting like you're surprised at what you found for the fifth time.

I should have paid attention to me spell checker. It kept offering the "Ignore" option on Delroy's name.

Weirdest of all, though was an NRO piece that identifies the panel on blogging Keven Drum said he was on the other day. The woman actually wrote:

Because this panel was called "L.A. Bloggers Take on Politics and the Media," I tried to make it reasonably balanced politically, so I invited Reason media critic Matt Welch, who's vaguely libertarian but is voting for Kerry; Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs and screenwriter/mystery novelist Roger Simon, both of whom run anti-Islamofascist sites and (although basically Democrats) are probably voting for Bush; Moxie, a freelance writer/photographer and staunch Republican; Kevin Drum, who used to run his own left-of-center Calpundit blog until it was annexed by the neoliberal Washington Monthly; and Slate's Mickey Kaus, who may not like Kerry but is planning to vote for him anyway.

The panel was basically evenly divided, and in the strictest sense probably tilted left.

which last sentence proves her delusional.

Where's that "Ignore All" menu option? Oh, there it is, good…