The gullibility of the booboisie
4 comments May 9th, 2008
This is both funny and sad.
The lower ranks of the right-wing blogosphere — which excludes, of course, those notable conservative pundits who actually walk upright — have been busy of late passing among one another a phony quotation attributed to Barack Obama.
It reads: “My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.”
Oh, how the dimwits chortle at that one. They think they’ve caught that Harvard elitist at an embarrassing mistatement that betrays his fiendish designs.
What makes this matter truly funny is that the phony quotation was first jokingly peddled by a conservative Web site — and was aimed at John McCain (note the familiar salutation: “My friends”), not Barack Obama.
It’s all explained HERE.
The truth of the matter, however, may never reach the nether regions of the blogosphere. There will always be strange little creatures eager to believe the next bit of nonsense that comes along via e-mail or from the dark corners of the Internet and somehow mentally unable to check out the veracity of it.
Last year, the vogue among these folks was to impugn the patriotism of Iraq war critics in Congress with these words, falsely attributed to Abraham Lincoln:
“Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged.”
Not only did Lincoln never utter such bilge, he was a war protester himself during his time as a member of Congress.
In fact, Lincoln’s criticisms of the Mexican War in 1848 greatly angered the pseudo-patriots of his time and cost him his seat in Congress.
Some things never change.
