Rumormongering

Early on, Obama's campaign team sought to address a swamp of fiction by going pro-active, launching a website called "Fight The Smears." These efforts were basically redundant to the good works of Snopes.com.

The Internet is buzzing about a recently-published article describing the denizens of the Tea Party movement as a collective of gaping-eyed loons. What makes this recent discursive so exciting is that it comes from Fox News.

Okay, let's get you up to speed on the incredibly true story about how a bunch of right-wingers got taken in by some satiric blog post on Barack Obama...