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Two Plus Two Equals Five OR [Sic] To My Stomach

Joseph Farah's World Net Daily , a clearinghouse of unhinged wingnut lunacy and a website that's about as far to the right as you can go before you hit Stormfront country, posted a re-hash of a recent CNN poll today, and got kind of...creative...with what them liberal elites call the "mathemagics." In a post titled CNN's bad news for Obama: 6 of 10 doubt U.S. birth story , the brain trust at WND dusted off Glenn Beck's chalkboard, started scribbling away, and came up with the following : [CNN's poll] question was: "Do you think Barack Obama was definitely born in the United States, probably born in the United States, probably born in another country, or definitely born in another country?" Definitely in the United States got the vote from 42 percent of the respondents, and probably in the United States another 29 percent. But that leaves almost 6 of 10 Americans uncertain about the president's birth – and therefore his eligibility under the...

Another Komedy Klassic From Paul T. Mero

Paul T. Mero, hero of the tortured inside-out semantic argument , is back with a new hit single to celebrate today's blow to Prop 8 . When a friend of mine on Facebook pointed out that it's a bit hypocritical of Mormons to persecute others for violating "traditional definitions of marriage," given the history of the LDS church, Mr. Mero had this to say: [Polygamist marriages], though plural, were between one man and one woman. As Will Ferrel's version of Alex Trebeck would say: "Simply stunning."