Huckabee to ‘keynote’ Electromagnetic Pulse conference.

[laststeamtrain]

Huckabee to ‘keynote’ Electromagnetic Pulse conference.

In May, the Wonk Room’s Matt Duss noted that, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — citing a fictional novel — told the 2009 American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference that the threat of an Electromagnetic Pulse attack against the United States was why he was in “favor” of “taking out Iranian and North Korean missiles on their sites.” The next month, the New Republic’s Michael Crowley reported that the “scientifically valid,” but “not strategically realistic” scenario was being used by “a cadre of conservative hawks” to argue for “familiar hobbyhorses” like missile defense and preemptive military strikes. Now, Dave Weigel reports that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is set to headline an upcoming conference on the threat of an Electromagnetic Pulse attack against the United States, titled “EMPACT America”: ... http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/24/huckabee-electromagnetic-pulse/

[John1956PA]

1. The novel "Amerika" began with the USSR unleashing a pulse which crippled communications.

I don't know if that is the same novel to which N**t referred.

[Enrique]

2. that conference should resemble a comic book convention

"Governor Huckabee, can the EMP bomb kill Superman?"

[Warpy]

3. Are these clowns ever going to realize that novels are fiction?

While some sci fi novelists have been able to anticipate things that have actually come to be, few paranoid Chicken Little thriller novelists have come up with much, at all.

Conservatives would do so much better if they stopped trying to read fiction, completely. Their experience with "The Turner Diaries" has shown quite clearly they can't handle it.