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Ortega decried Ankarlo's "race-baiting, fear-mongering ratings propaganda." To him and a growing number of others around here, he's just another right-wing radio lame-o spewing spittle in the faces of his listeners. The Bird's saying everybody — even the crackers who support Sheriff Joke — knows Darrell Ankarlo's true color: white as a Klansman's sheet.

Prevaricators' Powwow

This tireless toucan's been through the looking glass and back with the so-called 9/11 Accountability Conference, held February 23-25 at Chandler's Crown Plaza San Marcos. Bird-watchers know that this pen-wielding pelican's been dogging the conspirators' confab like a bloodhound ever since it revealed that Conference Director Eric D. Williams had authored a Holocaust-denying tome titled The Puzzle of Auschwitz.

In "Denier's Conference" (February 1), The Bird wrote about Williams' anti-Semitic Holocaust-denying, at length. And in last week's "Kook Congress," this foul fowl voiced suspicion that Williams might still have a role in the cuckoo clambake, though he'd supposedly removed himself from involvement because of the controversy.

After Williams was outed, potential speakers (from mainstream figures such as the Arizona ACLU's Alessandra Soler Meetze and KFNX 1100 AM talk personality Charles Goyette to lunatic fringe players like radio moonbat Alex Jones and Loose Change director Dylan Avery) shied away from the wack-ass confab. Not that it wasn't already screwball enough, seeing that 9/11 "truthers" tend to believe that al-Qaeda's nonexistent and the Twin Towers were brought down by a controlled demolition planned by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, the CIA, and/or Israeli Mossad, take your pick.

Conference organizer Kent "Cow Killer" Knudson, a convicted felon in the 'Zona for murdering a defenseless bovine, pretended to put serious space between Williams and 911Accountability.org. Still, until a few weeks ago, Williams had been director, Web master, vendor coordinator, and even owned the conference's Web site itself.

Knudson and other organizers asserted that Williams was no longer part of the fanatic fest, and Knudson declared that Williams was "gone" on Jeff Farias' KPHX 1480 AM show The Truth to Power Hour. Indeed, the Chandler symposium's Web site (at this writing) clearly states, "As a result of the controversy surrounding Eric D. Williams, he has stepped down from involvement in the 9/11 Accountability Conference."

Consider, then, this supercilious sapsucker's surprise when it arrived at a Friday press conference for the event and spotted the chrome-domed Shoah-shirker seated in the audience! This beaker figured they wouldn't let Williams within 40 miles of the crackpot congress, but as The Bird would later learn, Williams had been promised a vendor's booth at the conference in exchange for his earlier help in organizing the paranoid powwow.

In spite of the promises of Knudson, et al., that Williams was to have nothing to do with the convention, here he was being accepted as a movement member in good standing. "Accountability," this pelican's sweet patootie!

The Bird asked the organizers how the 9/11 coffee klatch could even hope be taken seriously with Williams present. This was a press conference, after all, right?

Santa Claus-bearded geezer Jim Marrs, who could pass for a cross between Wilford Brimley and Windfall Willie (the mascot of the AZ lottery), came to Williams' defense.

"Can I lay this to rest right now?" tweeted Marrs. "Eric Williams is right here. Did people get killed in World War II as a result of state policy?" he inquired of the Holocaust denier.

Williams replied in the affirmative. To the heavily mustachioed Marrs, that ended the matter.

But as the taloned one continued his queries, the crowd grew restless with demands that this bluebird be booted. That'd be The Bird they wanted tossed, not the adored Sir Eric, who wrote a vile volume asserting there were no mass executions via gas chambers at Auschwitz. How ironic, since The Bird was the only member of the working media present.

Eventually, the pep rally turned ugly for this feathered fiend, to the extent that a security guard forced The Bird to leave the hall. Therefore, for a few minutes, there was no press at the press conference. How, um, de-press-ing! Sanity prevailed in the form of Philadelphia lawyer Phil Berg, the moderator for the event. Berg came outside and instructed that this journalistic jaybird be let back in. He then told the crowd that members of the working media (that would be moi) must be given deference, since (ahem!) it was a press conference, after all. The Bird was allowed to interrogate the panelists unmolested after that.

This beak-bearer soon asked Professor Jim Fetzer, known to wags at screwloosechange.blogspot.com as "Uncle Fetzer," if he considered rabid anti-Semite Eric Hufschmid a credible source for the 9/11-denial movement, in light of his Jew-baiting Web site www.erichufschmid.net.

The hotheaded Jimbo defended Hufschmid like his academic rep depended on it.

"In my opinion, Eric Hufschmid's work — his book Painful Questions, for example — is an exemplar of excellence in research!" Fetzer declared. "He was a pioneer. He tackled this difficult subject. I realize that on various grounds, he's a controversial guy. That part I'm not addressing."

For those not familiar with the Hufmeister, here are a sampling of Hufschmid-isms: "The Jews are lying about the gas chambers and ovens," "The Jews helped Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party get control of Germany," "The Jews instigated both world wars," and "The Jews created anti-Semitism in Germany to drive Jews out of Europe and into Palestine, and to unify Jews, and to bring pity to Jews."