Timmy!

There's a new book out about South Park Conservatives. I loved the movie. And with the White House blaming Newsweek for the rioting all I can think of is "Blame Canada".

Let's just see what the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thinks, shall we?

Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Voice of America and other news agencies on May 12 that the report - which claimed that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility holding suspected Islamic terrorists tossed the Muslim holy book into a toilet - had little if anything to do with the protests.

Myers said he spoke with Gen. Carl Eichenberry, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, who played down reports that the demonstrations were caused by anger over the alleged Koran incident.

"It is the judgment of our commander in Afghanistan, General Eichenberry, that in fact the violence that we saw in Jalalabad was not necessarily the result of the allegations about disrespect for the Koran, but more tied up in the political process and the reconciliation process that President (Hamid) Karzai and his Cabinet are conducting in Afghanistan," Myers said. "He thought it was not at all tied to the article in the magazine."

Our previous post was that the Koran-toilet story had been reported many times before as far back as 2003. Now, we have General Myers saying don't blame Newsweek.

Once again, being a Republican means not letting the facts get in the way of your reality. Sing it with me now, Blame Canada, Blame Canada.