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Thought Al Gore had a monopoly on Nobel moonbattery?

Hold onto your conspiracy theories, cause here comes : Doris Lessing. Doris doesn’t think 9/11 was all that bad and the US are “a very naive people, or they pretend to be”

That’s right, Doris! We pretend to be upset when 3,000 of our citizens are killed in a day! How astute of you to notice! /sarcasm

(Check your blood pressure medication before reading further.)

MADRID, Spain (AP) - Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were “not that terrible” when compared to attacks by the IRA in Britain.

“September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible,” the Nobel Literature Prize winner told the leading Spanish daily El Pais.

“Some Americans will think I’m crazy. Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They’re a very naive people, or they pretend to be,” she said in an interview published Sunday.

“Do you know what people forget? That the IRA attacked with bombs against our government; it killed several people while a Conservative congress was being held and in which the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was (attending). People forget,” she said.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. About 3,700 died and tens of thousands of people were maimed in more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland. The Irish Republican Army guerrilla group, which caused most of the deaths, disarmed in 2005.

Crazy, Doris? Why would you say that? Because 3,700 people died in Northern Ireland over more than thirty years compared to 3,000 who died in a single day?

So, Doris...what do you think about our President?

“As for Bush, he’s a world calamity,” added Lessing. “Everyone is tired of this man. Either he is stupid or he is very clever, although you have to remember he is a member of a social class which has profited from wars.”

And which social class is that Ms. Moonbat?

Lessing won the Nobel Prize for literature earlier this month. She was praised by the judges for her “skepticism, fire and visionary power.”

Ah, yes! If you are a Bush-hating moonbat, you are visionary!

Lessing Says Sept. 11 Attacks Not So Bad

The Nobel Prizes have apparently shifted focus to the world's most clueless and/or despicable people. That started with Yasser Arafat's award for the latter, and Gore seems to embody the former. Lessing exemplifies both.

Captain Ed