I love the smell of bullshit in the morning

...it smells like.... humiliation.

By now, many of you may have heard about the Iranian government's plan to make Jews where yellow stars on their clothes. I personally saw this story on the front page of the National Post (inside the box on the street - I refuse to pay for that shit.) Apparently, Godwin's Law doesn't exist in the National Post newsroom.

Of course, as POGGE has detailed, it's total and complete crap.

That isn't to say that the actual law isn't offensive - the law that actually, you know, exists, restricts what women can wear in public. Iranian women have been flouting the existing dress code by wearing tight-fitting robes, apparently.

But somehow, the National Post wasn't content with a story that was just about the oppression of women. They had to fabricate a story to smear the Iranian leadership with a hallucination straight out of the Holocaust.

As if that weren't bad enough, the dead-tree version of the paper actually ran a photo from 1940s German-controlled Europe accompanying the story, leaving no propaganda stone unturned.

It's obvious what's going on here - the Canadian right, not content with the fact that Iran's nuclear program already poses enough of a challenge, want to make things worse by inciting people with images out of last century's nightmares. In doing so, they plant false stories about how their enemies are devious, conspiratorial, and don't value human life the way we do. That's right, the National Post, in comparing the Iranians to Nazis... acted exactly as the Nazi's allies in the press did.

And the circle of life for Nazi references is complete. Somebody cue Elton John.