This is pretty funny and haven't seen it diaried yet. It's kind of a long story, but long story short -- right wing idiot Michael Ledeen today discovered a blogger who had previewed "a Joe Klein item" on Obama's college thesis in which the President-to-be was supposed to have called the founding fathers thugs who had not really laid the foundation of freedom but had prepared us for economic slavery. In other words, it was all a hoax, identified by a tag on the original blog as satire. Ledeen and Rush both bought it and spent the afternoon ranting about what a socialist jerk the young Obama was. Whoops.
Here's the story.
And from Huffpost
So, when called on it, Rush pulled the ole "well it's a hoax but true" defense.
More from media matters.
Here, I'll let Rush out himself: