Over at TPM is a great smackdown of a Republican Congressman who appears to be supporting the wacko “Birther” idea that Obama was not born in the the US and therefore is not eligible to be president. It is just nonsense, of course, but people are running with it. So Chris Matthews Questions Rep. John Campbell (R-CA) About Birther Bill and does something great: he whips out Obama’s birth certificate! So for all those Birthers out there saying that no one has seen it…well, go see. And then be quiet.
I have been enjoying smackdowns of people like this all week. All those nuts who said Neil Armstrong never landed on the moon have been taken apart on blogs and forums whenever they popped up and said the moon landings never happened.
It is fine to have serious debates and discussions about contentious topics, but things like this deserve contempt.
Smart People I Know 
I try to live by the ethos that stupid people = free entertainment. I spend a lot of my time on the internet, and if I didn’t think that way, I do believe I’d be a screaming, raving lunatic pulling my hair out at all the insanity.
http://xkcd.com/386/
And Elvis lives! And aliens created the pyramids! And the world is flat! There’s a black man in the White House and he’s not the butler!
It’s with a certain amount of glee to see Chris Mathews eviscerate these racists on national television. Call it a guilty pleasure.
stevemacgregor