Sound-bite madness grips the right-wing punditry. Again.
Reshared post from +George Wiman
Did your favorite news source say that Obama wants to be emperor? Might be time to shop around for better reporting.
Obama H8rs complain, “Obama’s not emperor!”
Can’t make this stuff up as fast as the unthinking anti-Obama folks can dish it out. Their criticisms often vaporize at the slightest investigation, though. Why not talk serious policy? They won’……
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Thanks for the plug.
But — oy! — this is just a symptom. It runs much deeper into the bowels of so-called conservative insanity than any of us ever wishes to have to probe.
They’re not inaccurate because they’re stupid, sadly.
Sigh.
God knows there are areas (in “homeland security” in particular) where I am no fan of Obama.
But the paranoia that reigns in some quarters over That Man in the White House beggars belief sometimes, as the post you shows.
(And, yeah, some of the same paranoia was launched vs. George W. Bush. And while I think there was a lot more foundation for it in that case, I’ll note that I dismissed the Black Helicopter / Martial Law / Elections Canceled arguments against Bush just as I did against Clinton and Obama. Some people just want too much to be the voice crying in the wilderness against incipient tyranny.)