Salon: The post-inauguration edition of odd things conservatives believe about Obama.

[BuyingThyme]

Crazy right-wing myths about Obama 2.0

The post-inauguration edition of odd things conservatives believe about Obama. Teleprompters! Hitler Youth! Satan!

By Salon staff


June 8, 2009 | During the presidential campaign nutty right-wing rumors about Barack Obama swamped the Internet. Via mass e-mails, fearful conservatives were told that the Democratic nominee was a dangerous radical and a secret Muslim who would take the oath of office with his hand on the Koran. A whole conspiracy cult embraced the belief that Obama was not a natural-born U.S. citizen and was thus ineligible for the presidency. The Obama campaign had to build a Web site just to debunk the viral mythmaking.

After winning the election, President Obama, who was born in Hawaii (see his birth certificate here) was sworn in on Abraham Lincoln's Bible. He went to church on Easter Sunday. The supposed Manchurian candidate can't even get Gitmo closed properly, much less lead the Senate in a chorus of "The Internationale."

But the mythmaking has not stopped. The wheels of rumor grind fast, but they grind exceedingly dumb. Marooned on a grassy knoll of the mind, the right has spun new and scarier fantasies about the president, tales that would send any patriotic, gun-toting Christian fleeing across the border to Canada, if only the Canadians weren't so damn socialist. We present for your inspection, and then debunk, or paw at in desultory fashion, a dozen of the choicest conspiracy theories to gain traction since Jan. 20. We could print more, but we grow weary. (And by the way, Obama is still a Muslim foreigner.)

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/08/obama_myths/index.html?source=rss&aim=/news/feature

[NC_Nurse]

1. Funny how Fox News is the spreader of so MANY of these bullshit rumors...

Why are they even allowed to call themselves "journalists" or a "news" organization. They are 24/7 RW propaganda!

[undeterred]

2. The Stimulus includes trains from Disneyland to Nevada whorehouses...

Myth: Obama's stimulus provided cash for a "levitating train" between Disneyland and Nevada brothels.

Who's spreading it: Michelle Malkin, Fox News, Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.

What they believe: That Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid included an earmark in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that would pay for a "pie in the sky" science fiction train that would whisk people from the gates of Disneyland to Nevada whorehouses.

What is real: The stimulus included $8 billion for high-speed rail, but to this date the projects that the money will be spent on have yet to be chosen. The myth began when right-wing bloggers, led by Michelle Malkin, seized on a sentence from an Associated Press story declaring that " Reid's office issued a statement noting that a proposed Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas rail could get a big chunk of the money." Reid's statement, however, somehow never made it to Reid's congressional Web site. It is true that Reid has, in the past, supported the construction of a "maglev train" that would take Southern California tourists to Las Vegas, but such technology is neither "pie in the sky" nor science fiction. It's real. What's not real, however, is any earmark in the stimulus that directs taxpayer dollars to be spent on the project.

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