Michael Ledeen -- alas, we hardly knew ye

During the last two weeks the loony core of the neocon blogroll has been hyperventilating about the stunning news of the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader. This story was broken by Michael Ledeen two weeks ago, and raised a swirling firestorm of excitement among the likes of Michelle Malkin and other Pajamas Media regulars.

As a journalistic coup of the most dramatic geopoliticial nature, it was unmatched by any other thunderbolt of the recent news cycle, lacking but one small, tangential virtue (any remote basis in truth) but otherwise earth-shattering in its implications.

Until now. Blogger Jon Swift (not his real name) reports on the sudden passing of none other than Michael Ledeen himself.

In all seriousness, Swift's pseudo-obit (nobit?) is an invaluable summary of Ledeen's writings and contributions to our current state of affairs. The most amazing thing about it is that it's all true (except -- you know).