Legal Commentary

The Right Wing Unhinged

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

People who begin with the premise that the Democrats must be wrong find inexplicable the electorate’s apparent embrace of the Democratic message on healthcare, the economy, the war(s), social security, and energy security.

Comes now one “Dr. William D. Horton” (with an assist from Dr. Rush Limbaugh) to explain this seeming contradiction between what they take to be the natural order and the consensual reality we seem to inhabit.

Can you guess what they say explains Barack Obama’s national appeal?

No, it’s not the substance — that’s ruled out by hypothesis. It’s….wait for it…..hypnosis.

Yes, in this demented worldview, the US of A is being subjected to nearly diabolical mind control as the soothing slow voice of Barack Obama gently eases the viewing public to surrender its reason and its freedom via the application of neurolinguistic programming. It’s so controlling, so clever, so soothing, that it’s JUST LIKE HITLER. (As Dave Barry says, I am not making this up. The video being circulated by these guys culminates with footage of Hitler and jackboots.) The only way to survive is DON’T LISTEN TO HIM.

I know all this because I’m on some weird mailing list I didn’t ask to be on in which something called “special guests” writes me all the time and offers me guests, one loonier than the next, for the talk show I don’t happen to have. But today’s email promoting Dr. Will B. Horton (wasn’t he a character in Kudzu?) must surely take the cake.

Links to a nutty article and crazier video for those strong of stomach.

Less than a week to go. Expect even more stuff to crawl up out of the woodwork.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on October 30, 2008 (boomark / email).