“Who needs fact-checkers if you don’t need facts?”

Thus is Hardball’s Chris Matthews’ astute observation on the latest bit of Rush Limbaugh idiocy. Limbaugh was originally duped by a piece of satire that was a fake college thesis supposedly written by President Obama, which claimed that the Constitution needed to be altered to allow for a “massive redistribution of wealth”. This, of course, played right into Limbaugh’s wingnuttery and he broadcast the fake thesis live on his show without even realizing it was a fake, claiming that this was just more evidence showing how Obama was an “anti-constitutionalist”. This, coming from someone who behaves as though he believes the Fourth Amendment should be burned and have its ashes danced over. Maroon.

Finally, when this information about it all being satire was pointed out to him …

So we stand by the fabricated quote because we know Obama thinks it anyway.

Of course! Who needs actual quotes and facts when you can just make shit up and call it accurate, on the grounds that you believe you know what the guy thinks?

And this is why Republicans are such a friggin’ joke these days. Too stupid to recognize satire and fakery, too dense to accept that what they say is false, and too proud to admit that they are wrong.

Or, maybe they’re just fundamentally dishonest. Yeah … that’s it.

(via @todayspolitics)
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