The Right's Five Most Hilariously Boneheaded Anti-Obama Smears

[NicholeW.]

The Right's Five Most Hilariously Boneheaded Anti-Obama Smears
By Brad Reed, AlterNet. Posted August 20, 2008.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/95649/

In recent months, right-wing opinion outlets of varying pedigrees have accused Barack Obama of participating in an increasingly preposterous web of dopey conspiracies, including plots to make himself the next Hitler, to forge his birth certificate and, most sinisterly, to make children learn Spanish. And thanks to the wonder of the Internet and right-wing blogs, we can now chronicle how right-wing memes are spawned, from their genesis within the comments section of the Free Republic Web site to their viral spread across the Michelle Malkin blog empire to their final destination in the pages of "respectable" conservative opinion journals such as the Weekly Standard, the National Review and the Wall Street Journal op-ed page. Read more

[soldierjane]

ROFL

The scariest thing is that this kind of stuff has traction with some people... brr.

[NicholeW.]

This smear is a perfect synthesis of modern conservatism's nativist paranoia and its embrace of cretinism.

Ladies and gentlemen, our country is doomed.

I truly thought the summation was a 10.0. That is my largest worry, that we aren't getting more astute, but simply more like grunting, squealing hogs at a very nasty trough.

Nichole