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Roger Simon, who is a Hollywood writer by trade and ought to know, does the best job ever of explaining why fabulously wealthy celebrities often take up leftist causes which, by their very lifestyles, expose them to regular folk like you and me as complete and total hypocrites:

Much of this public liberalism of the excessive knee-jerk variety stems from a form of self-loathing. These same people do not want to be bastards – life just put them in that position. But, at the same time, they do not want anyone to take away what they have – the vast acclaim and fortune – even if deep down they wonder if they are worthy. What to do? What to do?

The solution is to create another self, a kind of mini-me, who goes out and loudly proclaims what a fine liberal humanistic person he or she is- a public projection to obfuscate the private self. Sometimes this results in actual good works, but usually it is basically blather (see Streisand’s website) or dopey showing off like Sean Penn putting in an appearance with Hugo Chavez.

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This seems like an appropriate day to link to a Popular Mechanics article which completely and thoroughly debunks all the “truther” myths about how the attacks on 9/11/01 were some kind of government conspiracy.

If you are one of the people who: a) perpetuated these myths, or b) allowed them to go unchallenged: shame on you. You should have known better, and now you can’t claim you don’t.

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…Enough to kill a civilian when you can’t find a soldier to kill…

Granted, most of the anti-war types wouldn’t go this far: but in the last week Osama bin Laden appears on tape sounding exactly like one of them, and now one of them is so consumed by his virulent hatred that he has to kill someone…anyone…We’ll see how many of them try to justify what this guy did. Mark my words: there’ll be a whole lot of them who do. Just watch DailyKos and see….

Hug an anti-war type today: they’ve had a bad week…(and it just might keep them from hitting you with an ax)…

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