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Get Your Stinking Mitts Off My National Tragedy!

Insipid wingnut Matthew Vadum managed to excrete a particularly vile little piece at the American Spectator today, entitled " Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11 " (no, really, go ahead and have a look - I'll wait). In part, it reads: On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something "positive," "forward-leaning," and "productive," said a source with knowledge of the teleconference. The plan is to turn a "day of fear" that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning. And how are nihilistic liberals planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning? [Author's note: even in the midst of the lunacy coming out of the right these days, it stone cold blows my freaking mind that I typed that sentence quoting, in full and in context, a conservative who...