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At some point yesterday, Nancy Pelosi gave an interview in which she said about the recent town hall goon squads: "They're carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care."

The super-sleuths of the internet were outraged! And after conducting a pathetic search, cyber-forensic expert Kevin Aylward of Wizbang proclaimed the Speaker's words "Bullshit."

Psst. Kevin. This search took 0.10 seconds.

The fourth result of this search leads you to a Washington Monthly post by Steve Benen who notes:

Let's not forget the protestor carrying a tombstone with Rep. Lloyd Doggett's (D-Texas) name on it -- at the same event with an activist carrying a sign with Nazi "SS" lettering.

Now if you follow that last link, you'll be taken to this page, which notes:

See, as one Dem points out, the much-watched Lloyd Doggett video today. Go to about a [sic] the 2:00 minute mark and you'll find a guy carrying a kid on his shoulders and hoisting a sign with the Nazi "SS" lettering.

And, lo and behold, at 2:03, there's this image:

Michelle Malkin, recently seen wondering why liberals are so hateful, dreams up hilarious new names for the swine flu.

I’m all for helping keep businesses from being victimized by the uninformed (many voters can empathize because the same thing often happens to us on Election Day), so maybe another name is in order. But what should it be?

The Obama administration has already stopped using the terms “terrorism” (now “man-caused disasters”) and “war on terror” (now “overseas contingency operation”), so there should be no problem changing the name of the “swine flu.” How about “Virus caused disasters”? “Rosie O’Donnell fever”?

Get it? Rosie's a pig. Because she's fat! Hahahahahahahahahaha!

Listen to Jesse Watters bravely transfer a call to a spokesperson!

I will say that Gawker kind of screwed this up by announcing they would be ambushing the guy to begin with.

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Shorter wingnuttia:

The New York Times is engaged in a fiendish plot to cover up an exclusive news story with potentially damaging reverberations for the Obama administration by printing the item in their newspaper and putting a longer version of it on their website.

Let's just say these people are starting to wade into some very choppy waters right now.

LATER: Full dive!

...and now bodies are starting to surface.

I don't really want to get in the middle of an inter-blog flame war, but I'll just note that Tom Maguire called another blogger essentially a coward for -- and I am not kidding here -- failing to directly link to a post of his (and instead sending his readers to another blogger who links to the original, brilliant Maguire post.) So Maguire whines: 'He's prepared to call "bullshit', but not to my face - what's missing in his response to my argument is any link at all to me. He's a bold one! Fortunately, my spies are everywhere..."

Well then. Rules are rules, and who am I to question? Anyway, it's late and I'm going to bed .... but wait, what about this section at the end of Maguire's post.

And here is Atrios, who apparently is still blogging:

I'm so old I can remember when everyone would tell me that Tom Maguire was a "reasonable conservative."

That old? I feel bad for the guy.

Ha! Of course, what's missing from that passage, which is now almost two days old, is an actual link to that Atrios quip. So if I understand the rules right, Maguire didn't just slip up and leave out a link to Atrios, he's actually a complete coward who can't bring himself to say such a thing to his virtual face. Do I have this right? Is Maguire really this stupid?

Shorter Michael Crowley:

When the troops cheered for President Bush, that was totally awesome, but when the employees at the CIA cheered for President Obama, that was really inappropriate and I don't like it one bit. Because!

Doesn't this photo just fill you with burning hateful rage -- that our president would have the temerity to grin and clasp the hand of a sworn enemy?

Easily the most disturbing image I've seen in some time:



These are the times I feel like a stranger in my own land. Read the whole sordid tale, if you dare.