02.01.11

Cult of EMP Crazy: Iranium — the movie

Posted in Crazy Weapons, Imminent Catastrophe at 2:10 pm by George Smith

Next week, the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy/bomb Iran/missile defense lobby will roll out its new ‘blockbuster’ documentary, Iranium.

DD is so there.

The production values on the website, here, are top notch.

Starring the usual cast — Frank Gaffney, Clifford May and assorted perps from the GOP far right — DD readers might also want to reserve their seats now.

Some dude, Robert Dreyfuss, at the Nation blogs about a screening of it at the Heritage Foundation — here.

Dreyfuss has apparently just discovered the favorite meme the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy, the one it has peddled since 2008 or so:

Perhaps the high point of the film was when Frank Gaffney, the extreme right militarist who leads an outfit called the Center for Security Policy in Washington—waxed poetic about how Iran could soon be able to detonate a nuclear “electromagnetic pulse??? (EMP) weapon in the American heartland that would, he warned, “take down the entire power grid??? across the United States. Not only that, said Gaffney and others, but this “strategic EMP attack??? would destroy everything in the United States that relies on electronics, and with a few years “nine out of every ten Americans could be dead.??? This, Gaffney warned, with a serious face that made it clear that he wasn’t joking, was to carry out Iran’s “stated purpose of bringing about a world without America.???

What Dreyfuss and the Nation may have missed: The Cult has been making this movie over and over for the last couple of years, from shorter documentaries to commercials for YouTube.

Now the Nation’s audience of progressives who like their stories dressed up as new intellectual air-freshener get the scoop.

2 Comments

  1. User Hostile said,

    February 1, 2011 at 11:28 pm

    Bring the popcorn.

    There’s something about willful ignorance that Americans get some kick out of, no matter how damaging it is to the nation’s mental health.

    Iran tosses a nuke and sends us back to the Gilded age, and we decide we’re going to sit and starve?!!!

    Frank Gaffney sounds like some of the homeless people I’ve dealt with who refuse to take their meds, no matter how much better it would make their lives.

  2. George Smith said,

    February 2, 2011 at 7:59 am

    That’s an amusing comparison. Anyway, yeah no one talks about what theoretically happens to Iran (and anyone geographically unfortunately close by) when an air-burst nuke is popped anywhere over the continental US. He’s the new normal, though.