The ‘Queen of Nice’ goes nuts

rosie4.jpgRenowned metallurgist Rosie O’Donnell proclaimed on TV on Thursday that Sept. 11, 2001, was a more significant date than most of us realized. It was, in her words, “the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel.”

This, of course, came as news to steelworkers, welders, blacksmiths, firefighters, manufacturers of samurai swords and other fools who hadn’t realized that steel is forged in magic furnaces using dragon breath and pixie dust.

The former “queen of nice” seems to think that the show is the perfect venue to audition for grand marshal of the next tinfoil hat parade. If you visit O’Donnell’s Web site (www.rosie.com), you’ll find her application’s supporting materials: all sorts of unadulterated moonbattery presented in the Esperanto of global derangement - a form of instant-message-style free verse. For example, she writes about the British sailors and marines held prisoner in Iran:

the british did it on purpose

into iranian waters

as

US MILITARY BUILD UP ON THE IRANIAN BORDER

we will be in iran

before summer

as planned

come on people

u have 2 c

i know u can

You may be unfamiliar with such psych-ward stylings, but I get e-mail written like this all the time. Perhaps if you believe the jackbooted thugs are at your door, it’s reasonable to think you don’t have time to spell out your words.

Read more By Jonah Goldberg at Townhall

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