The First Rule of Political Fight Club

Now this is interesting. It can be explained by one word: fear. This reeks of panic. Add this to the “revelation” within the last week that Obama attended a madrassa as a child and you can paint a picture of an opposition in panicked hysteria. Two years from Inauguration Day and folks are pulling out the nuclear option. By all accounts the madrassa piece is being traced back to Hillary’s campaign. The timing, less than a week after declaring, does smell a bit.

Interesting thing about the madrassa story, nobody is actually carrying the story anymore. (If Google can’t produce it the piece has gone under.) They’re all just talking about it, saying in effect that “other people have said”. This is what the news product profession does best. Take an unsourced hit piece that’s dropped in from obscurity and quickly retracted, and then work itself into a lather about the “story” instead of the original facts presented. News about the news. And a special Shame On You shout out goes to Sean Hannity, for leading off a piece on his website with the sentence “Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a Madrassa as a young boy and has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage?” No Sean, we're ready for a world free of bloviating assholes that pander to people's fear.

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