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Oh my stars and garters.

An interesting round-up (by a conservative) of this season’s greatest hits in the “conservative” blog world, serious derangement division, includes the following gem (emphasis added).

Ann Althouse has a unique ability to see things that no one else sees, not unlike my Aunt Agatha, until she was sent away to a rest home and forced to take medication that took away her abilities. During the primaries, Althouse discovered that a Hillary Clinton ad included the subliminal message “Nig” written on a child’s pajamas. Then during the debates, Althouse noticed on her high definition television that Obama was wearing a clear plastic hearing aid in his ear and noted that he spoke haltingly as if someone was giving him the answers in the debate. “It’s clearly there, a crescent of clear plastic,” she said in response to some skeptical comments (note her use of the word “crescent,” a clever reference to Obama’s secret Muslim heritage). Although Althouse later backed away from the story, which Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit linked to, she didn’t repudiate it entirely, concluding in the comments, “You know, just because the thing I saw wasn’t there doesn’t mean there wasn’t something there that I didn’t see.” I don’t know if this is an acceptable standard of evidence in courts of law since I am not a law professor like Ms. Althouse, but it has come to be the standard of evidence in the conservative blogosphere, and I don’t see why the fuddy-duddy mainstream media can’t adopt this way of thinking, too.

Jon Swift: Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging.

And I thought the crowd at Democratic Underground were nuts.

Last updated on Friday, October 24, 2008