When dealing with right-wingers, parody is oft superfluous (and other links)

A parody site says Dearborn, Mich., is now run by sharia law. Some rightwingers take it seriously.
•One that ought to be parody, but isn’t: the NSA decided to enter online role-playing games to see if terrorists were using them to meet secretly. Surprise! Hasn’t caught any terrorists yet (but I bet some of those agents had fun).
•Rightbloggers try to explain how the late Nelson Mandela was really, really evil or b)he’s better than Obama. Because they’re classy like that.
•A study makes the unsurprising revelation that men who are primarily interested in women for the bodies stare at their breasts in conversation. The Daily Caller predicts that before long, liberals will make looking at breasts a crime! And women really love it when you stare at their boobs!
•Some Democrats are horrified that people are starting to question the wisdom of axing Social Security.
•Memos indicate the Obama administration favors trade-pact rules that would let American businesses fight foreign regulations. Because dammit, we can’t have foreigners controlling who pollutes their country and enslaves their workers.
And yet the myth that Obama is a radical socialist firebrand will not die …
•”Satanic panic” claims about Satanic ritual abuse have consistently proven false, yet people keep making them.
•Yes, racism is still a problem.
•Your tax dollars at work. Only it’s not tax dollars, it’s money police departments just take from you.

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