Apparently I missed this when in happened. A woman came close to fainting as she stood behind Obama during a press availability during which he was touting Obamacare. Parenthetically, I've always hated this stunt, first pioneered by St. Reagan, of having common every day folks stand behind the President while he misleads us. But that's another issue altogether.
Apparently the paranoid right, cheered on by the half term governor of Alaska, is claiming that the woman did not actually faint, but that it was all a sham, engineered by Obama.
Did I call them the paranoid right? Well, I do an injustice to true paranoids everywhere. At least with most paranoids, one must at least admit that, if their suspicions were true, they might actually be at risk to suffer the results they fear. But in this case, I am having a great deal of trouble figuring out precisely why Obama would have arranged for a woman in his peanut gallery to faint. What possible benefit could he hope to derive? Has anyone on the right articulated that? It would seem to me that it would be the last thing he would actually want to happen, putting aside the fact that it's manifestly unbelievable that he or anyone else would have scripted something so bizarre. Now I know the sheep will believe anything, but really, the shepherds ought to be a little more discerning about the nonsense they ask their followers to believe.
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