It's so rare to watch things from the beginning, so I'm enjoying my post observing one of the latest crazy conservative canards flying around the internet. I stumbled upon a conservative post referencing an alleged newspaper article claiming Obama was going to apologize for the "war crime" of bombing Dresden. Thinking no newspaper could possibly be that stupid I followed the link and came to another blog post. It was yet another conservative blogger referencing a very important article in the Deutsche Welle, a German paper:
Perhaps the most controversial is a planned speech in which President Obama will formally apologize for American 'war crimes' during the Second World War. This would be particularly comforting to Europeans, who have long condemned American foreign policy actions, especially regarding civilians.
The twist is of course that there is no such article, he merely links to the newspapers home page and was actually trying to be satirical. The only way I can know this is that he tagged the article with satire, a fact that the conservative blogosphere seems to have missed.
As of now it has spread to dozens of conservatives blogs including, of course, the free republic. So watch the story spread and lets start a betting pool about whether it makes it onto Fox News.
Update 4:00 PM PST:
I changed the title since Google News picked it up, don't want to contribute to the insanity.