It won’t surprise you to learn Alan Jones doesn’t read Crikey. But if only he had heeded our advice yesterday — just this once — on not jumping to conclusions over the perpetrators and motivations of the Boston terrorist bombings, then he wouldn’t have put his clown-sized foot so far down his throat on Channel Seven’s Sunrise this morning:

“I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a conspiracy amongst students, left-wing radical students in Boston, and I think we have to think also very seriously here about our own student numbers. We’re very keen to have foreign students pay the way of universities in this country without a lot of discernment about who comes in. But I think the fact that we’ve been spared this kind of thing, touch wood, for so long highlights, as I said, the relentless work done by ASIO and all our police organisations.”

Reckless US Congress types have already been out linking the bombings — again, there isn’t even a suggestion of a suspect as yet — to immigration and background checks. Let’s leave them to it, AJ. God knows there’s enough fear and loathing you can cook up on domestic politics alone.