ak15, if you have read some of my other posts, you will see how it is natural and at the advantage for negative conservative forces to induce fear, guilt, confusion, chaos, negativity, indecision, conflict... because they can offer a comforting and illusionary authoritarian choice of "bringing order to the chaos". This is similar to the recently discovered destabilization, disinformation and denialism techniques that the US has been using in Europe for decades - and elsewhere. They were looking for effects of driving populations towards more hard line attitudes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
Well there's no question that he has a strong sense of humor, however he was also telling the truth. Later he said that he had never been on the Internet but would try it. (He wasn't joking.) Either way, I think it's time to try electing an ivory tower intellectual.