Detective work by Wizard Is Hungry.

* Rudy is off raising money in the UK disguised as their prime minister. [Wizbang Politics]
* Someone needs to tell Dan Rather that a good scapegoat doesn’t file $70 million law suits. [Michelle Malkin]
* Australia’s ruling party bans its members from Al Gore’s speeches probably because Al Gore and Al Qaeda are the same person. [Think Progress]
* Mitt Romney wins the race to say that the WTC site is our hole in the ground and the Iranian president can’t go see it. [Election Central]
* Fred Thompson doesn’t need any health care because he is impervious to all illness. Well, all illness except for cancer, obesity and heart disease. [Hot Air]
* Hillary’s “credibility problem” on health care is that she tried too hard to get it for all Americans. [Media Matters]
* Taxpayers foot the bill to keep Wonkette interns on their meds. Thanks, guys. [The Hill Blog]

The Internets are buzzing with the bizarre story of BBC News reporting the 9/11 collapse of WTC7 before the building actually collapsed — all over a live shot of Ground Zero, with the 47-story highrise clearly in view and clearly standing.

What it “proves” is anyone’s guess, but it sure makes for hilarious viewing. But BBC reporters and anchors who maybe didn’t know the Manhattan skyline so well could possibly be forgiven for reporting an erroneous story and not knowing that great big highrise was World Trade Center 7 (otherwise known as the Salomon Brothers building). So why doesn’t the BBC simply say it got a story wrong and didn’t know any better? Stranger still, why did New York-based CNN anchor Aaron Brown do the same exact thing on September 11, 2001? We’ve got all the creepy video and much more to make your head asplode, after the jump.

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Popular newspaper summarizing and Milbank enabling website Slate has the perfect accessory for your coffee table or the coffee table of a loved one: “9/11: The Comic Book.” This totally useful and non-exploitative 5-year anniversary cash-in will finally answer such burning, unresolved 9/11 questions as:

• Would Batman have been able to prevent the events of 9/11 if he hadn’t been encumbered by bureaucratic red tape?

• Is it true tower 7 was actually felled by Mr. Mxyzptlk?
• Was the colossally inept response by NORAD somehow Jughead’s fault?
• So, wait, are the mice Jews, or firefighters, or what?
• Is the sound of America’s loss of innocence more of a “fwoosh” or a “tssssssssssss…”?

Bonus: See a sneak preview panel of the graphic novelization, after the jump!

The 9/11 Report [Slate]

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