United Nations Debacle or Rabelais for 500?

Sweet, sweet Jesus yesterday's gamut of disorientation was impressive. The American Colossus presented Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon as election-success stories, obviously relegating all this talk of bodies, torture, civil war, corruption, opium, infrastructure ruin to the status of illusion. Will somebody please investigate why the liberals and the media have invented all this "negative" and "unreal" news? Then there's the performance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who responded to a wtiness to Dachau with "I think we should allow more impartial studies to be done on this." And then of course there's Mr. Chavez who tried out his merengue moves on a journalist and kept referring to the presence of Satan, and (this is my favorite) lamented that he had not been able to meet Noam Chomsky before his death (the Noam Chomsky who is still alive). Then of course there is the rejection of UN forces by the President of Sudan because they're in the middle of genocide and would like to get on with it. What shall we say of politics as exampled by the above: "I discovered," said Gargantua, "by long and painstaking experiments a way to wipe my ass, the most lordly, the most excellent, the most expedient that was ever seen." Oh Rabelais! Oh humanity!