"Hit The Road Barack,"

Alan: Yesterday, my brother Kevin forwarded an email from a rabid right-wing friend.

His missive featured an article entitled "NEWSWEEK IS GOING OUT WITH A BANG!!!" and went on to say that "the liberal Newsweek Magazine is going out of business, but not before it attacks the President.  This is quite an article, even more so when you consider that NEWSWEEK finally had the guts to admit it. WOW!  Newsweek COVER!!!  It is their last cover before they fold. AMAZING!!!

The Newsweek "cover" "makes clear" that this is "the real deal."

Except... it isn't.

To be sure, "Hit The Road Barack" was written by a fellow named Matt Patterson.

But "Hit The Road Barack" was not published in Newsweek. 

Rather, it was published on the conservative opinion website, "American Thinker."

Subsequently, an anonymous, conservative Trickster photoshopped the fake Newsweek cover (above) and immediately a flood of fellow conservatives -- determined to be deceived with the same passion they are driven to deceive -- availed themselves of ever-ready right-wing email channels to create a cause celebre reminiscent of Nazi Germany 1930s propaganda machine. 

In the western world, it is commonly believed that we bear moral responsibility only for those actions undertaken with an informed conscience.

And so, to avoid moral responsibility, it has become commonplace among American conservatives to keep themselves in the dark.

To achieve this self-imposed benightedness, it is remarkable how few conservatives resort to trustworthy debunking organizations like www.Snopes.com) 

"The Death Of Epistemolgy"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/are-polls-skewed-death-of-epistemology.html

This widespread refusal to research truth has been normalized by two conservative traits.

1.) Among Christian conservatives, we witness the perpetual damage caused by St. Paul "The Apostle" who persuaded "the intellectually lazy" to double down on their innate indolence by preaching that "the world's wisdom is folly in the eyes of God." And so whatever Christian conservaties perceive to be truth is deemed to be "God's Truth" while any "inconvenient truth" is deemed to be worldly folly. 

2.) On the secular side of the conservative coin, we witness wholesale dismissal of information sources -- such as The New York Times -- and the replacement of relatively trustworthy media outlets with conspiracy theorizing.

Don't like a truth?

No problem.

Go ahead and subscribe to "Any Damn Thing" such as the widespread belief that the slaughter of two dozen 5 year olds at Sandy Hook School in Newton, Connecticut was part of a larger conspiracy to stage "apparent" acts of firearm carnage in order to persuade Americans to oppose First Amendment Rights.

Consider the following posts by an ostensibly intelligent Catholic conservative named Laura Wood who blogs as "The Thinking Housewife."

Pax on both houses: "The Top Ten Reasons Sandy Hook Is A Hoax ...

paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-top-ten-reasons-sandy-hook-is-hoax.html

Dec 10, 2015 - The Thinking Housewife's source for this bilge asserts that Sandy Hook school had been "mothballed" years prior to the fatal shooting and that ...

Pax on both houses: The Thinking Housewife: "Ten Ways to Spot a ...

paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/.../the-thinking-housewife-ten-ways-to-spot.htm...

Oct 4, 2015 - "The Thinking Housewife Plunges Into The Abyss Of Conspiratorial ... that Homeland Security is shrewd enough to stage the Sandy Hook ...

Pax on both houses: Thinking Housewife: More "Proof" That The Paris ...

paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/thinking-housewife-more-proof-that.html

Dec 6, 2015 - The Thinking Housewife Plunges Into The Abyss Of Conspiratorial Thinking ... That's just a tip off, as it was in the Sandy Hook event, which was ...

Pax on both houses: The Thinking Housewife Plunges Into The Abyss ...

paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-thinking-housewife-plunges-into.html

Sep 2, 2015 - In recent months The Thinking Housewife has promoted several "false ... Beyond the bizarreness of denying Sandy Hook, Roanoke, Global ...

American conservatives are not just ignorant.

They are aggressively ignorant.

Proudly ignorant.

Boastfully ignorant. 

Evangelically ignorant.

They are, in fact, hostile to Truth because any contrary truth -- anthropogenic global warming for example -- that penetrates the armor of Authoritarian Absolutism collapses the entire structure of Absolutism.

If God is conceived as Truth -- a syllogistic proposition set forth in John's Gospel, https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+14:6 -- the permanent posture of American conservatives is squatting over The Face of God, shitting in his mouth, shouting "Down Truth! Down!"

Although the following Jung observation leads to a discussion beyond the scope of this post, Carl contradicted (or at least modified) the standard western view of moral responsibility by arguing that is incumbent upon human beings to take reasonable steps to become conscious of the moral situation, and that failure to strive after expanding consciousness made those individuals who remained deliberately ignorant morally responsible for the outcome of their ignorant behavior. 

Notably, human jurisprudence does not exculpate "the ignorant."

American Conservatives And Aggressive Ignorance

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/american-conservatives-and-aggressive.html

McArthur Wheeler: Patron Saint Of American "Conservatism"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/mcarthur-wheeler-patron-saint-of.html

Alan: Here is the fact-checked article from www.RepublicansSuck.com detailing the truth of "Hit The Road Barack"

I received a email forward with “Newsweek Cover” in the subject line and the above photo in the email with the title “The Cover of Liberal Newsweek Magazine”

Here’s some of the text in the email…

“Finally, Matt Patterson and Newsweek speak out about Obama. This is timely and tough. As many of you know, Newsweek has a reputation for being extremely liberal. The fact that their editor saw fit to print the following article about Obama and the one that appears in the latest Newsweek, makes this a truly amazing event, and a news story in and of itself. At last, the truth about our President and his agenda are starting to trickle through the “protective wall” built around him by the liberal media….  ‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall”

This article was Obama bashing at it finest which I’m sure delighted all the Obama haters who received it.   Problem is, like most of the Republican propaganda out there… IT’S FALSE.

This article never appeared in Newsweek.  The real name of the article is called ” The Affirmative Action President”.  It was written by Matt Patterson and appeared in aconservative opinion web site called American Thinker on August 18, 2011.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obama_the_affirmative_action_president.html

Another dead give-away… take a close look at the Newsweek cover.  The article title is “Hit the road Barack” by Niall Ferguson, not “Matt Patterson”.

The article by Niall Ferguson was a completely different article than the one posted in the email forwards.

So for those of you who care about the facts, if you receive a copy of this email forward, you might want to tell the person who sent it to you that it’s a hoax.

Here’s some examples of Sean Hannity making false accusations, flip-flopping on issues and engaging in Hypocrisy which you may find interesting…

Sean Hannity NSA surveillance hypocrisy

Sean Hannity was all for NSA surveillance when George W. Bush was president, but now he blames Obama for NSA surveillance snooping and claims it’s a violation of the 4th Amendment.

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Sean Hannity busted for making false accusation against Obama

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Sean Hannity busted on False Obamacare claims

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Jon Stewart exposes Hannity’s for hypocrisy / double standards over President Obama & Donald Trump.  Hannity went ballistic over Jon Stewart’s comments… this is really funny

Here’s the facts and history about Fox News… Fox News Exposed