Obama's a Fort Hood Truther

It didn't take long for someone on the right to accuse Obama of somehow letting the Fort Hood tragedy happen.



Cesca's pretty clear about it: after 9/11, there were no parties. Everyone supported President Bush.

The L.A. Times reports that the shooter had ties with a cleric who'd also had ties with some of the 9/11 hijackers, but intelligence indicated that "the shooting suspect did not pose a threat."

When I started surfing the net looking for right-wing bloggers to condemn the president for somehow knowing about and failing to do something about the shooter's supposed ties to radical Islamists, I expected to find a lot of stuff, but so far Malkin, Hewitt, et al haven't said anything. But still, the idea of Republicans' reflexively questioning the President on all manner of things and suggesting that he hates America (a typical favorite right wing barb) makes me think of the West Wing episode when Ainsley Hayes (played wonderfully by Emily Procter), a Republican working in the White House of Democratic President Jed Bartlett, is sitting in a cafe with some of her Republican colleagues who are just ripping into the people with whom she works. Video of her "they are patriots" speech here.