The New Republic’s Notebook contains this mind-boggling nugget:

Madison Avenue guru Charlotte Beers was tapped to sharpen up the [pro-U.S.] message to Muslims. The first fruits of Beers’s labors appear on the State Department’s agitprop site, www.usinfo.state.gov, “created strictly for … key international audiences.” Unfortunately, the site does a better job promoting the critics of American policy than American policy itself. On a page called “Muslim Life in America,” Beers & Co. approvingly quote Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), on the importance of mosques as “bases for political and social mobilization”–a mobilization that would sound a good deal better if Awad were not an unabashed Hamas enthusiast. (Describing the first World Trade Center bombing, Awad once claimed, “there is ample evidence indicating that both the Mossad and the Egyptian Intelligence played a role in the explosion.”)

Further along, we learn that State’s website is linked directly to CAIR’s homepage,

where visitors seeking expressions of Americans’ open-mindedness and pluralism will instead find statements such as, “Since the terrorist attacks on our nation in September, American Muslims and groups that represent them, have been the target of an unprecedented smear campaign.” They’ll see CAIR’s charge that the government shutdown of the Holy Land Foundation, a Hamas front group, smacks of “an attack on Islam.” And they’ll read an article about anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States entitled, “The Freedom to Believe Doesn’t Go Far.”

Well, thank goodness our bombs are so friggin’ accurate…

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