Group photo of right-wingnuttosphere
In case you missed it, evidence that Obamaderangment Syndrome has reached a new
high low: Earlier this week, while speaking to schoolchildren in Belfast, Ireland, President Obama delivered a brief history of
The Troubles and said:
If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs—if we can’t see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division. It discourages cooperation.
Seems reasonable, right? Au contraire says the rightwingnuttosphere!
Splashed across the Drudge Report, readers were told that Obama made an “alarming call for end to Catholic education.” Over at Breitbart.com, John Nolte hyperventilated about Obama’s “chilling” attack on religious education. The speech showed that “leftists like Obama loathe parochial schools because they put children outside of the reach of government,” and drop them into “an environment void of Bibles and trans-fat but loaded with condoms and victimhood.” ... “Obama singles out Catholic and Protestant schools, and not Islamic schools.”
... the popular conservative blog Gateway Pundit was so shocked—and outraged—that it adorned its headline with a phony quote (“WHOA! Barack Obama Knocks Catholic Schools: ‘Catholic Education Divides People and Blocks Peace’”) and claimed that the actually boring and banal speech contained “one of Obama’s most outrageous comments ever.”
Freaks.