Are you fucking serious?
First it was "death panels", even though it is perfectly fine and dandy when it was under the former President (while he was Governor AND while he was President) or big insurance.
And now it is the "death book" or "death manual" that is only the same exact thing that has existed for the past decade. This one is my personal favorite.
This is the most insane thing that I can recall witnessing. Teabaggers. Birthers. The craziest made up shit that you couldn’t make up if you were writing a fictional book. And THEY are "patriots"? This is legitimized and being discussed in any term other than "what a bunch of crazy motherfuckers" - as if every far out there insane idea that can be conjured up is presented as one of the credible alternative views or "concerns".
Where was the same courtesy for us crazy conspiracists who asked where the WMDs are? Or who dared to question what was going on in Florida in 2000, Georgia in 2002, Ohio in 2004 and with all of the voter roll purges in between? Or who dared to say that outing a CIA agent and her network or politicizing the Justice Department or torturing people was illegal?
These people – all of them – those who conjure this crap up, those who help spread it and those who actually believe it – are actually winning the perception battle. Is there that much of "teh stooped" going around? It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if we started to see Newt dressed up as Obi-Wan, Palin with hair buns and the Huckster as Luke telling us that only a missile shield will protect us from a massive government takeover of our entire lives.
And from Putin as well.
Also.