WorldNetDaily is the equivalent of Weekly World News, the paper that writes about aliens in your backyard, yet what Rachel Maddow talks about is all over twitter. People are even saying that Obama is linked to this shooting, because, of course, they believe he's a Muslim (all Muslims are terrorists in the view of wingnuts).
I can't believe that so many people actually voice their stupidity, without shame or caution. It's stunning. Ignorance threatens our freedom--not the deficit, not "big government." We could have reasonable conversations and debates if there wasn't so much willful stupidity out there.
It's not just Muslims who pay the price of stupidity, though they suffer more directly. We all pay for the ignorance of our fellow Americans. In addition to lifting people out of poverty, we've got to find a way to lift people out of ignorance.
Ralph Peters, a guest on O'Reilly's show, calls Hasan a terrorist:
