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The Financial Times is reporting that al-Qaeda, the terrorist group responsible for the September 11, 2001, tragedy, is now confirmed to be operating in Iran. The story, written by journalist Stephen Fidler in London, quotes only one unnamed source directly; the rest of the story is the writer’s invention.

The whole thing sounds suspiciously like the news media stories about WMDs in Iraq during the Clinton-Lewinsky cover-up right through 9-11, who then shifted blame for the assumption to President Bush when it became convenient for the liberal media to do so.

I don’t know if the Financial Times report is correct or not, or if they’re all just in drug rehab this week. But I can guarantee you if Bush were to cite such a spurious, suspect report as a justification for war in Iran, somehow the blame would be shifted to “bad intelligence” and “bad leadership in the White House” rather than even a hint of “bad journalism.”

I would have suspected Fidler would at least know the one cardinal law of journalism: always use at least two reliable, quoted sourced in any news story. (Opinion pieces are a different matter altogether, but this is not a Fidler op-ed. It’s a “hard news” story.

If we ever get to a point where war in Iran is the necessary course, we don’t need suspect stories by trap-setting journalists to justify it. Frankly, for my money, Ahmadinijad’s constant threats to make Israel and the US disappear while rushing toward becoming a nuclear power against the direct mandate of the United Nations, is reason enough.

Kermit the Frog’s words have never been truer; it’s not easy being green.

Of course, that assumes one is even trying. The celebs participating in Gore’s Live Aid event to promote the global warming is producing … a hell of a lot of energy waste! Refusing to fly anything but private jets, the “energy waiver offset credit”-loving crowd set to perform in Al Gore’s “Pollute-a-thon 2007″ will be traveling 222,623.63 miles all together to get to and from the concert event.

London’s Daily Mail reports that, “The true environmental cost, as they transport their technicians, dancers and support staff, is likely to be far higher. The total carbon footprint of the event, taking into account the artists’ and spectators’ travel to the concert, and the energy consumption on the day, is likely to be at least 31,500 tonnes of carbon emissions, according to John Buckley of Carbonfootprint.com, who specialises in such calculations. Throw in the television audience and it comes to a staggering 74,500 tonnes. In comparison, the average Briton produces ten tonnes in a year. The concert will also generate some 1,025 tonnes of waste at the concert stadiums - much of which will go directly into landfill sites.”

At this rate, even the writing pens that “green” journalists covering the event use will find a way to pump out their own share of pollutants. Not so fun when you are expected to practice what you preach, is it, Gore and company?

Whipped into a frenzy of wanting to do it just because they might be able to pull it off, congressional Democrats have nearly 45 percent of America at least tentatively agreeing to support impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush, according to poll results reported on Breitbart.com.

The poll was conducted by the New Hampshire-based ARG, and canvassed only 1,100 carefully-selected Americans. So the upshot is really that as much as they hate him, 55 percent of Democrats DON’T support impeachment of the Bush-meister! Because you know that’s all they polled in order to reach such a ridiculous result.

This is all, of course, payback hopes for the impeachment (but not removal) of Bill Clinton for perjury and obstructing justice (which is what his impeachment was about… not sex in and of itself.) Good ol’ Bubba Bill never had the hair transplant Florida concerns of Al Gore, John Kerry or Sen. Rodham, his wife. But there are still plenty of Dems just foaming at the mouth to impeach a Republican - any Republican would do - as payback for an embarrassment Clinton would never have suffered if he’d just told the truth.

Oops. Too much to ask.

But at least there were legal reasons to impeach President Bubba. Bush, on the other hand, is guilty of nothing in particular except being hated by liberals. Hardly an impeachable offense … unless you are a liberal feel-tank propagandist. (Since it’s fairly clear that no liberal since John F. Kennedy has actually engaged in THINKING.)