Ethics

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

By Ed Brayton

More accurately, these two pictures demonstrate more than all the ridiculously inflated rhetoric could that the right's hatred of Obama has reached the point of being downright delusional. Volokh has in the past referred to various derangement syndromes, a phenomenon where people are so zealous in their hatred of a particular person that there are no limits whatsoever on how far they are willing to go in accusing that person of every imaginable evil.

We saw this with Clinton, where there was of course plenty of very legitimate criticism, but there were some that were so deranged that they accused him of being a serial rapist, murderer, cocaine dealer and anything else they could dream up. We saw it with Bush, where even with all of the things you could accurately accuse him of being and doing, some felt the need to go even further and claim that he helped plan 9/11. Here is the culmination of such derangement:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).