Rosie O'Donnell is unqualified to speak on anything other than weight problems and lesbianism. Nonetheless, she has seen fit to use girl-talk television show "The View" to promote her insane views about the events of 9/11. "I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower 7, which collapsed in on itself -- it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. Miraculously, the first time in history steel was melted by fire," O'Donnell prattled. "To say that we don't know that it imploded ... is beyond ignorant. Look at the film, get a physics expert from Yale, from Harvard, pick the school."
And O'Donnell didn't stop there. The Iranian kidnapping of 15 British sailors was not an audacious attempt to humiliate the West, O'Donnell said. It was, in fact, an Anglo-American conspiracy designed to provoke a Western invasion of Iran. "anderson cooper / wake up," she poetically penned on her first-grade level blog. "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."
O'Donnell may not be able 2 c either her toes or her spellchecker, but she isn't alone in her delusions. O'Donnell's 9/11 conspiracy theory allies include Charlie Sheen, Woody Harrelson, Mos Def, Eminem, Antoine Fuqua, David Lynch, Ed Asner, James Brolin and Richard Linklater.
Her Iranian idiocy is even less controversial among the Hollywood glitterati. For Hollywood types, it is an article of faith that President Bush would manipulate the country into war to enrich his buddies at Halliburton. America, in this view, is an imperialist power bent on global domination and exploitation. America's Islamofascist enemies, by contrast, are "freedom fighters" who seek to maintain their native independence against the American jackbooted thugs.
This isn't simply harmless nuttiness; it directly impacts the material Hollywood produces. The last three years have witnessed a steady stream of pro-Islamofascist propaganda emanating from Tinseltown. Michael Moore's propaganda flick "Fahrenheit 9/11" (2004) won Hollywood's heart -- and portrayed the Bush administration as corrupt and evil. Hero to the left George Clooney won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "Syriana" (2005), which he also executive produced. That film proposed that America murdered liberal Muslim reformers in order to ensure oil profits, suggested that capitalism caused Islamic terrorism, accused the oil industry of running the American government and glorified homicide bombers.