Conspiracy

The other day I was listening to the radio and I was listening to one those conservative guys who was yacking about how in the next short period of time president Obama's budget will raise the deficit by some large number. It's interesting how there have always claims on how the incumbent president of the opposite party will destroy the economy in the next decade or so, yet the nation is still standing. For example after the President Obama's first State of the Union address Governer Bob McDonnel (R-VA) said the deficit was scheduled to double in some interval of time and triple in another period of time. Some fact checkers that his statement was way off. Anyway, someting this gut on the radio said was that he wasn't into conspiracies such as the theory that the president wasn't born in the U.S. He might have said he wasn't into conspiracies because that makes him seem legit. However, later he said that President Obama's book was written by his friend William Ayers because it's Ayer's style instead of Obama's. If you ask me that statement is a conspiracy.

Rush Limbaugh

Summary: Apparently Rush Limbaugh was reading President Obama's thesis frmo Columbia University where President Obama was dissing the constitution and being critical of the founding fathers. What's funny is that what he was reading was not the president's thesis, a satire from a humor blog and he took it seriously. (I am proud to say that I as well have a humor blog) Rush Limbaugh did not apologize.

Response: To me Limbaugh seems to be behaving like a little kid.  It seems all political comedians do is find as many ways to criticize the opposite party and they behave totally rudely there not open minded and they don't apologize. I really wish those political people were more open minded and fair because then they would be more interesting to listen to. That fact that he was reading something from a humor blog makes me wonder two things. First of all, where is he getting his information, this makes me think that he just googles stuff all day to look for stuff that he can use without caring about wether or not it's credible. Second, how smart is he, if someone takes a satire seriously it makes me question how smart their reasoning is, it also makes me wonder how smart that blogger is because if he can make a satire that someone takes seriously than he's probably really smart.

This story doesn't seem to have gotten m too much attention so it makes me wonder if maybe this is a hoax. It would be quite embarrassed if it was.

Saul Michael "Limbaugh falls for Obama thesis hoax - but is in no Rush to apologize" Limbaugh falls for Obama thesis hoax - but is in no Rush to apologize Daily News 25 Oct. 2009 01 Nov. 2009