"CONSIDER THE SOURCE!!"

"ALIENS FROM MARS AT WHITE HOUSE!! NEW NAZIS WORSHIP HITLER'S BRAIN!! ELVIS AND BIGFOOT SPOTTED AT ROCK CONCERT!!!" Do any of you stop at the register in the check-out line and read those headlines and laugh out loud? Although, Elvis Is Alive!!! Oddly enough, there is a segment of the public that reads this stuff and believes it is real! These are the same people that don't believe we landed on the moon. Crazy headlines are expected from some publications; we all have an idea what those publications are. I remember seeing a picture of President Bush shaking hands with a "SPACE ALIEN"! I hope that those who publish these things aren't serious; but one never knows for sure. Americans love a good sci-fi movie, or horror story. The fantasy movies are very popular and are drawing throngs to the theatre in droves. I hope that when we go to those movies, we know that it isn't real! I've heard crazy theories from many people. Charlie Sheen believes we demolished the towers on 911 because of the way they fell. Numerous people have signed on to theories on the Kennedy Assassination, that range from a mafia hit to he is still alive and running the nation from a bunker. Crack-pot theories abound at every turn from many different sources.

Associated Press has a history of credibility. When people read something that has AP next to the story, they give it an accepted measure of truth.

Last week, Fidel Castro, former communist dictator of Cuba, made an accusation against former President George W. Bush. Castro has made allegations that Osama bin Laden is a C.I.A. agent and was ordered by President Bush to aid Mr. Bush in advancing the war by his video threats! Born in 1926, Castro became dictator in Cuba in 1959, overthrowing Batista's corrupt government. Fidel stepped down in July of 2006, when he turned over power to his brother (so much for free elections) Raul. He is now the "elder statesman" in Cuba. He said "Every time Bush would stir up fear and make a speech, bin Laden would appear threatening people with a story about what he was going to do", "..(bin Laden) jumped out exactly when President George W. Bush needed to scare the whole world.."! Sadly there will be a portion of the American public who will believe these rantings from the unhinged former dictator. Those who are fans of Hugo Chavez, and we all know who they are, will probably assign great credibility to Fidel's lunacy. This is equivocal to saying that Roosevelt was in a conspiracy with the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor in order to start WWII. Oh, by the way, there are people who believe that!

When an established news organization covers this type of idiocy they contribute to its credibility. Associated Press should leave this type of coverage to those "super-market gossip sheets" that deal with this ridiculous type of article. My Mom always said "Consider the source" when I heard things that were hard to believe: remember, it was Fidel Castro who said this stuff. CONSIDER THE SOURCE!!!