Obama is still alive.

Been doing this blog for about 3.5 years now, and Freepers still surprise me. This is not to say that their knee-jerk reactions to large stories aren't generally predictable down to which nickname they'll use for Obama. But their tactical decisions (e.g. getting more racist and simultaneously anti-war) are often a source of amazement to me.

Another consistent source of unbound craziness is the little stories. There you'll see their constant pettiness about Michelle Obama's appearance, or how socialist Halloween is.

Thus, I was delighted by the little kerfuffle wherein FOX's twitter was hacked and hoax tweets saying Obama had been assassinate were sent out for a little while. Didn't make the news that I saw, except as a hoax. Freepers? Blame Obama! Marvelous!

Fresh Wind smells conspiracy, and fascism!

You can be sure Baraq Sheik Obomba and his posse orchestrated this. They want to shut down opposition news outlets once and for all, just like Hitler and Stalin did.

sergeantdave thinks this is cause Obama's so petty:

Obuma did it.

He’s insanely jealous that Americans are celebrating the Founders and not him. He ordered the secret service to hack Fox so people talk about him on July 4. Everything is all him.

helpfulresearcher has it all figured out:

Here was the plan:

1) Announce the death of Obama by Twitter.

2) Watch 4th of July patriotic folks and try to videotape or camera phone conservatives cheering the death of Obama.

3) Use the images to harm the Tea Party and support Obama’s reelection.

It wouldn’t work because Tea Party types don’t behave like that. However, the Liberals don’t know that. They try to catch us in a bad light and this was their ticket. I wouldn’t be surprised if some Obama supporter inside Fox did the twitter.

Notice the implication that liberals would totally celebrate if the situation were reversed. Hypothetical liberals are so evil!

HiTech RedNeck knows Bush would handled this much better than Obama did:

If Barack Obama had half a sense of humor he would respond to this like Mark Twain was once reported to have done upon seeing his supposed obituary — “the reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.”
And otherwise leave it alone while the Secret Service quietly investigates. That’s probably what George W. Bush would have done.

Incidentally, George W. Bush broke the supposed zero-year curse on US presidents — nobody made an assassination attempt upon him and he survived to leave office, although he narrowly dodged a thrown pair of sandals in Iraq. Would this suggest that the curse goes to the next president?

nickcarraway blames FOX:

Amatuers. Incompetence of this level means Fox News doesn’t deserve to exist.

Ezekiel thinks this hoax is something more metaphysical:

Seal falling off of podium, seal flying off the beastmobile, beastmobile running aground at embassy in Ireland, rats, flies, storms, volcanoes, and now twitter chatter about Obama falling...

The usurper sure is an omen generator.