The Nutroots blogs are spinning the New York Times story as fast and hard as they can this morning, with many of them actually claiming that “Bush gave Iran nuclear secrets, dude!” Apparently in Nutrootsland, Iran has just been waiting for the Bush administration to slip up like this and give them the final piece in their nuclear schemes. Never mind the AQ Khan conspiracy, never mind the help from North Korea, never mind the fact that Iran has been operating a clandestine nuclear plot for decades—Iran couldn’t possibly have gotten this information anywhere else, and now they have it, according to these geniuses.

Here’s a typical vitriolic post, nearly indistinguishable from the character Eros in Plan 9 from Outer Space, ranting about the Earth people and their “stupid, stupid minds:” Cry, The Beloved Stupid Country.

And aren’t these the same lovable Nutroots people who scoff at claims that Iran has a secret nuclear program, and have been screaming for years that “Bush lied!” about Iraq’s WMD plans? Trying to follow their talking points will give a sane person a severe case of cognitive whiplash.