SMOKING GUNS – AT 8:25 A.M. ET:  One of the bright things about the revolutions going on in the Mideast today is that information comes out that finally, and definitively, exposes the vast network of corruption and hatred that has supported Arab thug leaders for decades.  Consider:

CHICAGO – Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan reiterated his defense of Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday, calling the embattled Libyan leader a friend and Muslim brother who's lent the movement $8 million over the years.

Farrakhan, speaking at a rare news conference, railed against the media and said Gadhafi isn't the monster being portrayed by Western governments.

Ask the relatives of PanAm 103.  But Farrakhan wouldn't talk to them anyway.

The 78-year-old minister criticized the U.S. government and President Barack Obama — whom he also called a brother — for launching military action against Libya without justification. He accused Americans of just wanting Gadhafi out of the picture to secure oil interests.

"I love Moammar Gadhafi, and I love our president," Farrakhan told several hundred cheering supporters at the Nation of Islam's headquarters. "It grieves me to see my brother president set a policy that would remove this man not only from power, but from the earth."

The man he loves – and this isn't a Gershwin tune – openly said that he would murder his own people in Libya if the revolution continued.  Farrakhan has strange crushes. 

Sadly, Farrakhan continues to have a disturbing level of support in the black community.  Maybe now, as he expresses heat for one of the world's great murderers, will people start to desert him.

The sad fact is, however, that Farrakhan has also had white enablers.  They have included the late columnist, Robert Novak, and the governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell.  As mayor of Philadelphia, Rendell welcomed the bigot Farrakhan to his city and reprimanded those who opposed Farrakhan's visit.

When you lie down with dogs...

April 1, 2011