This past week, James Wolcott decisively eviscerated conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza for his upcoming book, which essentially blames America (well, actually, the low morals of American liberals) for the 9/11 attacks. But D’Souza is not the first right-winger to push this blame-America claim.
That honor goes to WorldNetDaily’s resident adventurer and friend to right-wing, pro-apartheid mercenaries, Anthony LoBaido. A Sept. 13, 2001, WND commentary by LoBaido put the blame squarely on America for the 9/11 attacks under this rationale:
All that is evil in the world can be found in New York: MTV, the United Nations, the U.N. abortion programs, the Council on Foreign Relations, New Age Church of St. John the Divine, WallStreet greed, Madison Avenue manipulation and of course more confirmed AIDS cases than the rest of America combined. Let’s remember the filthy sodomite gay parade last summer in New York. […]
And let’s not forget that New Yorkers elected — by a landslide — the openly Marxist, treasonous and abortion-mongering, occultic Hillary to a Senate seat.
LoBaido also noted that “America will no longer be able to deny judgment for its idolatry, wickedness, abandonment of the God of the Bible, embrace of abortion, stem-cell research, the sodomite agenda, materialism, the occult and many other sins.”
While WND editor Joseph Farah initially defended LoBaido’s right to express his opinions, WND ultimately deleted LoBaido’s article from its database (the above link is from the Wayback Machine).
Which raises an interesting conundrum: Given the fact that WND ultimately rejected LoBaido’s views on blaming America for 9/11, will it promote D’Souza’s book — which promotes, for all intents and purposes, the same viewpoint — when it’s published?