Not related to science fiction in any way

[the_archfiend]

...which is unfortunate, since these are your supposed tax dollars at work:

Tea party-backed Representatives Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Steve King (R-IA) on Saturday held a press conference in Egypt to thank the country’s military for overthrowing the elected government, and at one point even seemed to suggest that the Muslim Brotherhood had been behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

In case you were wondering, this wasn't quite the case: Kommandant B. opines:

“We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed here for the people in Egypt. We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed around the world. We stand against this great evil. We are not for them. We remember who caused 9/11 in America. We remember who it was that killed 3,000 brave Americans. We have not forgotten.”

In fact, the 9/11 Commission determined that Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda terrorist network were responsible for orchestrating the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Following the attack, the Muslim Brotherhood “strongly condemned” the action.

Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who was a top Muslim Brotherhood leader at the time of the attacks, called them “a wrong act which we denounce regardless of its doer.”

Blaming the wrong guys may sound like a risky venture coming from three Congressthings with long-standing records for wackjobbery, but their targets (who, even if they ran Egypt into the ground during their one year in power still had nothing to do with 9/11. which was one of the points of this odd little press conference, right?), were convenient enough in the wake of the situation in Syra that they could hope no one took much notice or - more likely - that anyone paying attention was a fact-challenged Tea Party acolyte in the first place.

Unfortunately, everyone from Business Insider to the New York Times did notice. And when even Business Insider refers to a press conference as "surreal" and "bizarre", chances are that it was.