Via La Gringa, unhinged ravings from the guy Obama desperately wants to install as President of Honduras:

TEGUCIGALPA -- It's been 89 days since Manuel Zelaya was booted from power. He's sleeping on chairs, and he claims his throat is sore from toxic gases and "Israeli mercenaries'' are torturing him with high-frequency radiation.

Call me crazy, but I'm guessing a man sleeping in chairs at Lula's embassy is in no position to accurately measure "high-frequency radiation" passing through his body. And even if he were, it raises the most reasonable question as to how, precisely, he knows his unseen harassers are "Israelis." (There's a big Israeli presence in Honduras, no doubt.) I mean, couldn't they be aliens, or members of the Rotary Club?

And since when would one's invisible gas-deploying enemies (Israelis, again, presumably) go through the trouble of using a "toxic" gas merely to trigger a sore throat — when the common cold or flu would do the job just as well? Why, they could cause other people around him to catch a cold and then pass it on to him by surface contact or airborne particles! (You can't put it past the Israelis not to try something sneaky like that.)

For those who slept through most of history class, having raving antisemites in positions of power has presaged all kinds of badness. Besides socialism, antisemitism is another thread uniting Zelaya and Chavez, his primary sponsor. But why are we backing him, again?

I submit that anyone who can sit through this this (and all of this) without blinking (or perhaps even cheering in agreement) won't find Zelaya's ravings that farfetched or disconcerting. Also note that support for socialism and racism are often linked, which isn't surprising, as both are forms of collectivist thought tinged with resentment and victimization: one targeted toward class, another toward race.