Chum

Chum is stinky chunks of bait that one throws overboard to attract fish to the vicinity of your boat and your hooks. That's sort of like what happens when fishy stories like the one Fox and Friends picked up about Barak Obama and the Madrassa. Others, like Headline News' Glenn Beck soon joined the frenzy and I am quite sure that the now debunked story will embark on an internet e-mail tour that will take it around the world for years to come - feeding off the idiots who didn't hear about it or its demise who will forward it to millions of unsuspecting ignoramuses. Like most of these circulating slime bombs, it will begin with pictures of the World Trade Towers or an image of bin Laden with a demonic smile and will pretend to be hot off the press news that has been suppressed by Liberals

Very few of the gullible millions will know or bother to find out that not only was there no source for this "revelation" in the Clinton camp as the slime brokers insisted, but that the Madrassa turned out to be a western style public school. The simple joy of being able to believe that Obama is a brainwashed Islamic extremist will overwhelm the urge to find the truth.

It may be true that humans descend from apes who frequently scavenged their meals from the leavings of predators. Perhaps that would explain the joy with which humans cherish these rotten bits of misinformation and their reluctance to relinquish them in the face of truth, but perhaps there will come a time when the question of repeatedly fooling the public will no longer be about shame on you or shame on me, but shame on anyone who listens to the lying hyenas.

Friends don't let friends watch Fox.