Transferring The Paranoia

by digby

Does it ever strike you that this raging wingnut paranoia about Obama’s allegedly radical agenda is just an extension of their raging paranoia about the terrorists? The whole thing just seems like one long primal scream to me.

What do you do with people who have so worked themselves up into a frenzy that they believe something as ludicrous as this:

In a March 9, post titled, “Obama’s war on fishing?!?!?!” Michelle Malkin posted the ESPN column’s claim that “[t]he Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.” Malkin added, “Longtime readers know I love to fish and have been at war with the anti-fishing nuts at PETA for years.”

This is a woman who wrote book about liberals called “Unhinged” and she seems to believe that the Obama administration is secretly working as an agent of Code Pink and PETA. The Obama administration. At this point, they are so off the cliff that calling him a socialist is beginning to seem restrained. I’m expecting them to claim he’s literally Satan by the next election.

It’s too disorienting and weird to try to address rationally. The only thing I can do is shake my head and keep my fingers crossed that these people don’t ever get their fingers on the button.