Falling for it

I suppose it isn’t surprising the birthers are so desperate to believe they’ll fall for an obvious hoax.  But it remains a sad spectacle of how little of substance the right wing has to say.  Ed Brayton discusses:

Dave Weigel, my Center for Independent Media colleague, has an article at the Washington Independent about the latest idiocy from Orly Taitz, the endlessly ridiculous leader of the birthers. It’s a fake Kenyan birth certificate. Naturally, it’s the Worldnutdaily credulously publishing about it and calling it real:

“The new document released by Taitz bears none of the obvious traits of a hoax.”Really? None of the obvious traits of a hoax? Take it away, Mr. Weigel:

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