BatFlattery

So there’s this video that’s been doing the rounds on the Internet. Loose Change, it’s called. Supposedly an expose of how the American government was really behind 9/11, it’s basically a hoax- the guy who made it admitted as much. Or at least he did before it was seized on by the mental cripples who go for conspiracy theories.

Anyway, given that, it shouldn’t really be surprising that the weak-minded in the entertainment industry have taken their turn at the wheel. Some twit named Mark Cuban is providing the backing for a commercial release, with the support of the loonily lefty Rosie O’Donnell – and that well-known sharp pencil, Charlie Sheen, will be narrating. Someone should tell them that even Michael Moore has stopped beating the greasy spot where that dead horse used to lie.

According to one of the other Big Brother contestants, that is.

Asked how she felt when the respect MP nominated her for eviction from the Channel 4 show, she said: “Of course I felt betrayed.

“It’s just that he’s lied a lot before and I’ve seen him lie since. He’s just a manipulative bully.”

Asked if an MP should have agreed to go on the show, Lenska said: “I think he was trying to swell his popular appeal.

“But sadly I think he has done completely the opposite. People have been turned against him quite rightly.

“He should have been out looking after his constituents instead of being in the Big Brother house.”

And in other news, the Pope is said to be Catholic, and a dog has bitten a man.

This is handy: a list of all the famous (and would-be famous) people who are unable to distinguish between George W Bush and Adolf Hitler.

Favourites include Prashant Bhushan, who finds analogies between Saddam and Hitler “laughable”. On the other hand, an analogy between Bush and Hitler, is both “instructive” and “frightening”. Hmmm. Wonder what other words he gets mixed up?

And Harold Pinter: “The US is really beyond reason now. It is beyond our imagining to know what they are going to do next and what they are prepared to do. There is only one comparison: Nazi Germany.” Funny, and here I was thinking that Nazi Germany was about the