Is Obama Secretly Gay?

Conspiracy Theories.

Is Barack gay?  I'm sure that there are people who think so.  I mean, look at the immaculately cut suit and the crease in his pants, the way he crosses his legs, the wife and children who are obviously a false front.  Mind you, I have never met any, but since Frank J. Fleming brought it up, we can assume it will spread like wildfire.

But a failure to face reality, which is at the root of all conspiracy theories, has a very large following, larger than "truthers," larger than "birthers," so very large, you would think that the MSM would be headlining it like the delusion that it is.  I'll let Frank J. explain.

Yet still another conspiracy theory has emerged, even more divorced from reality and the facts than any of the previous ones. And it has already spread, as recent polls show that somewhere between 34% and 37% — more than a third of Americans — believe it. What is this new, insane notion? That the job President Obama is doing on the economy could be described as “good.”

Yes, it’s really hard for an educated individual to understand how one could hold such a belief when it flies in the face of all the facts we see daily. All the other conspiracy theories are, in a way, much more understandable because what they involve doesn’t directly affect the bored individuals who cling to them. It’s easy to just sit online and second guess things you don’t really understand and aren’t involved in, but this economy affects everyone. You’re reminded of it every day when you see all your unemployed friends and family and the high gas prices and just general malaise. How can anyone ignore that? It’s like holding to a conspiracy theory that the sky is orange despite each day seeing how blue it is.

There is a phrase that identifies these conspirators: "saved or created."

Post or visit some forums in the fringe corners of the internet, and you’ll see complex yet incoherent rants saying that what has happened is actually a good thing and what Obama has been doing is smart. You’ll often run into this phrase common among conspiracists: “jobs saved or created.” This refers to an unprovable belief that Obama’s actions created millions of invisible jobs no one can see.

I mean, come on, aren't invisible jobs a lot like an invisible friends, the hallmark of the kind of nut that wanders the street talking to himself?

The media is not helping, in fact it is feeding this delusion ... big time.  It reinforces the delusions of the crazies when it reports bad economic news as "unexpected."     

The mainstream media often actually treats the idea that Obama is doing a good job on the economy as just another opinion, instead of the counter-factual viewpoint it is. Many TV news shows have these crazed individuals on all the time doing fact-free rants about how smart Obama is on the economy, and numerous papers publish their screeds as just regular columns.

It could be just a way to take a few dollars from the rubes, like the carnival barkers do at freak shows.

In fact, the New York Times has now put these people behind a paywall so they can charge a nickel a gander to people wanting to see the freak show.

Frank J. concludes:

It’s time for this to stop. We have to restore sanity to this country and fight against all these insane conspiracy theories — especially the destructive idea that Obama is actually doing anything useful for the economy. Saying that man didn’t land on the moon, that Bush caused 9/11, or that Obama knows what he’s doing aren’t simply other opinions — they’re false and destructive ideas, and the people who cling to them border on mental illness.

If we’re going to have any useful debates in this society, they have to come from people who all exist in reality — not a place where 9% unemployment and spiraling debt is a “good job.” It’s time for the people trying to fool themselves into believing that Obama is successful on the economy to stop manipulating facts into complex, incoherent webs that support their theories. Instead, they need to take a clear look at the data and apply Occam’s razor to come to the most simple, logical conclusion: Obama is a Muslim sleeper agent doing everything he can to destroy our economy from the inside.

Sanity at last.