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Leave it to Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit idiocy to even screw up a lie! Here's what Hoft is posting about the earthquake:

When you clickthe link above the image it takes you to the White House's President's schedule, which of course shows no public events today. Clicking the Yahoo link takes you to the source of the image, where we are presented with this caption:

President Barack Obama, left, and his daughter Malia Obama, right, ride bicycles in Manuel F. Correllus State Forest, in West Tisbury, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011.

The most interesting thing is that the photo was published a little 1:11 pm est. and Obama had already left. The earthquake happened at 1:51 pm est. 

So what was the President really doing? Well another thing the right loves to attack - he was golfing! If Hoft would have waited a little bit longer he could have published a factual story with the same impact to the wingnuts out there instead of some fake one. 

Just like deciphering the start of a problem in grade school, you always got to look deep into the facts to distill rightwing rhetoric. Since the Tucson shooting the right has strummed up the chorus to scream and shout that the left needs to stop politicizing the event. While there was some politicization from the left, none of it has been as vitriolic as that coming from the right. It’s the old “practice what I preach, not what I do” rhetoric we have sadly become used to.

I pointed some of this out earlier this week when wingnut blogger Jim Hoft started a big stink saying that President Obama lied at the memorial service when he said Gabby Giffords first opened her eyes. It got so bad that the doctors actually had to stop treating patients to go out and answer questions about it, backing up what the President said. Of course to the right these doctors are nothing but leftist liars, which is really ironic when you think about how the right always says doctors hate Obama because of health care reform.

Sadly though that smear was just the start of it. Jim Hoft is continuing to point out the evils of the memorial event:

Just when you think popular right wing blogger Jim “Dim” Hoft (Gateway Pundit) couldn’t possibly post anything more stupid than his last post, he finds a way to take it to the next level of numbskullitude.

Today’s entry in the “Hoft Chronicles of Sheer Stoopit” has him trying to claim that the White House prompted the audience to applaud at the “Together We Thrive” memorial (with his usual taste and class, Hoft calls it a “pep rally”): If White House Was Surprised by Applause at Tucson Pep Rally… Why Did They Ask For It On Jumbotron?

Time for some more intrigue out of our nation’s capital:

A man who fought to get the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built and served in two Bush administrations was murdered, Delaware police say.

John P. Wheeler III, 66, was found dead in a Delaware landfill, and his death has been ruled a homicide by Newark, Del., police. They are asking the public for leads in the case.

Wheeler’s body was found in Wilmington on Friday after a disposal truck containing his body made pickups in Newark.

Wheeler, who lived in New Castle, was chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund during the Ronald Reagan era. He also held many high-profile government positions after graduating from West Point in 1966.

I’m sure conspiracy theories are going to go awry on this one, especially with Wheeler’s latest work being to get ROTC back into ivy league colleges.

UPDATE:

Well that didn’t take long. Already appearing in the comments at Gateway Pundit:

Craziness in Maryland:

A gunman with an explosive device strapped to himself has entered the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, Md., and may have taken at least one person hostage, police said.

Montgomery County police said there may also be other explosives in the building, but they said they could not confirm reports that one or more shots had been fired.

Law enforcement authorities identified the man as James J. Lee. They told NBC News that he had a long history of protesting at the building. NBC said the man may have posted environmental and population-control demands online.

The suspect has a laundry list of demands posted on his website. Things from stopping global warming to ending illegal immigration and “anchor babies”.

While this guy appears to be an all around lunatic, that isn’t stopping the wingnuts from labeling him. Here’s Gateway Pundit:

GUNMAN, BOMBER, LEFTIST ACTIVIST- HOLDS HOSTAGES AT DISCOVERY BUILDING (Photo)

Yeah except the guy also holds some extreme rightwing views as well. But nothing takes the cake like ultra-radical Ace of Spades commenting on Lee being Asian:

I am speechless with this statement of absolute idiocy. I guess we should start calling Hitler an American, since America is a white country and Hitler was white.

(UPDATE - fixed the broken end of my post. My computer is getting silly and ready for a reboot)

Here’s Gateway Pundit:

After the 2 million strong conservative freedom rally on 9-12:

Of course being a wingnut means not reading. If you check out that link here’s what you see:

As many as one million people flooded into Washington for a massive rally organised by conservatives claiming that President Obama is driving America towards socialism.

Hmm – one million, two million – what’s the difference? And even that one million is inflated. The official numbers are 60,000-70,000.

This is a typical response of “we want more” that the right constantly exhibits. For example; they get about 200 things put into healthcare that they wanted, yet that isn’t enough. Most organizers would be happy of such a turnout, but not the childish right.

A new Washington Post/ABC news poll has come out, and it finds President Obama still enjoying a 66% approval rating. 42% also think the country is heading in the right direction. Compare that to when Bush was in office:

                Right     Wrong     No 
              direction   track   opinion  
3/29/09          42        57        1
2/22/09          31        67        2
1/16/09          19        78        3
12/14/08         15        82        3

Obama’s numbers have almost tripled, and that has the wingnuts pissed off, like Gateway Pundit:

UPDATE: Of course... MSNBC's poll (linked above) is hopelessly biased.

Even with an 11-point advantage among Democrats, Obama cannot convince a majority that the country is on the right track.

First things first. This poll was conducted by Washington Post and ABC news, not MSNBC. MSNBC just happed to report on it.

Also, when do you think the last time that 42% thought the country was on the right track? Well the poll tells us:

4/18/04          42        57        1 

So we haven’t seen that kind of number since Bush’s first term! Damn Obama just can’t close the deal!!

The spin doesn’t stop there. Gateway Pundit took that from Ace of Spades, which said: