If any Black Ink readers would care to give a listen, your humble and obedient ink-stained wretch will be on the air live Saturday afternoon on the conservative radio station known as K-Talk (that's KTLK, 100.3 FM) talking about my post from Monday about the case of the "flying imams."

Ron Rosenbaum is the host. He's an attorney, with much less predictable political opinions than the rest of the K-Talk hosts (Jason Lewis, Laura Ingraham, etc.) and he told me that he learned a goodly bit about the imam case from my post (really, from the sworn testimony and other evidence, laid out in Judge Ann Montgomery's ruling, on which I based my piece).

Rosenbaum warned me that the righty audience for that station would disagree with Montgomery's ruling and would likely not share the admiration I expressed for its clarity and facticity.

In fact, Rosenbaum, whom I gather has covered the imams in his programs before, told that many of his listeners subscribe to the believe that the imams, while not trying to hijack or blow up the airplane, were probably part of a "probe" operation, which I take to mean that they were engaging in conduct that hijackers would in order to see how the authorities would respond. According to the probe theory, that experience would somehow aid in the planning of future terrorist activities.

I recall reading this theory in the aftermath of the original flying imam incident and I was able to dig up this now-crazy-seeming piece, from the Washington Times, laying out the "probe" argument, based on quotes from three anonymous sources (even the reporter's name has now, for some reason, been expunged).

But the main problem with the probe theory (if Rosenbaum is right about what his audience believes, I supposed we'll be discussing this on Saturday) is that the theory is based on all the same pieces of distorted or imagined evidence that Judge Montgomery found was not borne out by the sworn evidence. For example, the imams didn't (as the Wash Times piece asserted) "switch from their assigned seats to a pattern associated with the September 11 terrorist attacks... two in the front row, first-class, two in the middle of the plane on the exit aisle and two in the rear of the cabin."

In fact, Montgomery found (and she had access to the arlines and its records and witnesses) that all but one of the imams sat in the seats assigned to them by the airline. Likewise, only one imam sat in an exit row, and that by the assignment of the airline.

Anyway, not to rehash the Monday piece again. The Rosenbaum program starts at 1 p.m. Saturday but I'm slated for the second hour, starting after the two o'clock commercials and headlines.