The Daily Beast's John Avlon reports on a new Harris poll detailing Republican voters' reality-challenged views in a manner similar to that earlier explored by our Markos Moulitsas for his upcoming "American Taliban" book. John Avlon had a book come out last month called Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America that he claims helped inspire the Harris poll at: Scary New GOP Poll
The following is Avlon's sensational bullet list:
67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist.
57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim
45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president"
38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"
Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."
I'm posting this just as an FYI diary and encourage anyone with a decent rant in them to post their own diary on this. Of course the bottom line on this (as Markos earlier pointed out in response to his poll) is that this shows what a successful news reporting operation Fox News is because so many people now believe things they made up.