Looks like American Digest is up to some shenanigans, posting “an open letter” from Borders Books Chairman Gregory Josefowicz (pictured) to Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs over the chain’s decision to refuse to carry a magazine featuring the Mohammed cartoons.

In the letter, which the Digest also announces has been covered in the New York Times (faux), Josefowicz purportedly states:

Charles, I’ve got a book store to run and having you sic a bunch of bloggers on me and tell them to ride my ass because we’re not shelving a pip-squeak magazine from those tools at the “Council for Secular Humanism” (Jesus wept!) is just not getting it done…

Now you and the other bloggers who are sitting around safe in your undisclosed locations may feel that I have a duty to carry the 46 copies of Free Inquiry magazine I’m going to sell chain-wide in the next month. You know, the one with those drawings of the Prophet (Peace be upon his raggedy ass.). You might feel I should do this in the name of being the last, best bastion of Free Speech in America. I feel your pain, but after due consideration I must respectfully instruct you all to just pound sand…

Is it really the case that your guys expect me, after months of watching this global governmental cowardice in the face of Islamic intimidation go down, to pin a big “Kick Me” sign on the backs of every one of my employees?…

Like I said, I run a bookstore not an army. You bloggers want the Muslim idiots brought under control so that Free Speech takes place everywhere and not just in the magazine section at Borders? Tell it to the Marines.

So, why is this such a good April Fool’s prank? Because some CEOs — even of public companies — don’t mind sharing similarly strong political views.

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