Exposé: Imus Downfall Really Due To Threatened Revelation of 9/11 Secrets!

No, not really. (Sheesh! I already feel like Matt Drudge writing for the National Enquirer.) Still, with a hat tip to memeorandum, this too funny story in Pravda Online can't be missed.

At last it can be told! The Rutgers women's basketball slur? Par for the course for Imus (well, that part's true) and merely a smoke-screen for the real reason he fell from grace: he "threatening to expose the truths behind the events of September 11, 2001 and the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars; and to such an extent that another American media personality, Rosie O'Donnell, has expressed concern that US Military Leaders could actually imprison Mr. Imus." And when it comes to hard-hitting investigative reporting, well, I guess we all know you just can't do better than Rosie.

On a serious note here, this sort of nonsense is precisely why I criticized the Pelosi trip to Syria recently. Sure, Pravda even in its post-Soviet incarnation(s) is a journalistic joke in a way and to a vastly greater degree than even I would ever accuse the Washington Post or New York Times at their worst of being. But as with Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin's failure to understand the firing of Dan Rather, so too it remains the case that not only the average person throughout much of the rest of the world but also too many foreign leaders simply fail to grasp how America (still, thank God) works. Believe me, if former Soviet KGB guys like Putin can so completely miss the boat -- and remember, the Soviets poured extensive resources into studying the U.S. throughout the Cold War -- what are the chances of the Iranians, Syrians or whoever being able to put Pelosi's comments into perspective? I'd say roughly zilch.

Anyway, you can't say Pravda hasn't made at least some progress since the old Cold War days. Yes, I know, what are now published in print and online under the title "Pravda" are separate entities and neither is a continuation the old official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Still, the association persists, as no doubt it is intended to persist. And try as I might, I simply can't imagine the old Soviet Pravda running a photo spread on a "dwarf porn star". (The posted pics, btw, are not pornographic.)