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Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Honk if you hate Saddam. Someone seems to be pulling ole James Taranto's leg over at Best of the Web. He reports on an Austin talk-show host who initiated a "pro-Saddam protest" guaranteed to produce results:
Saturday and Sunday night, 8 to 10 p.m., during our show, we called for all the normal Americans who support the war against Saddam to turn on their headlights! The response was overwhelming. Numerous callers reported that every car on Austin's highways and byways had its headlights on.
Duh. In January in the northern hemisphere, if you don't have your headlights on by 8 PM some cop is going to pull you over for endangering traffic. Wait, it gets better. Crawford then exhorts his listeners who
love America and stand behind our troops in their soon-to-be war against Saddam to participate in a motorcade Monday morning, 6 to 9, driving into Austin and filling up its roads and parking lots. We don't mean to sound arrogant, but we are confident that working Americans who cannot normally attend protests will overwhelmingly respond and turn Austin into one big traffic jam.
In other words, a typical Monday morning rush hour.

Taranto seems to be treating this with a straight face - am I missing something?