Everything That’s Ever Happened in the Right Wing Blogosphere Distilled Down Into One Beautiful Perfect Incident

May 29th, 2008 by TRex @ 9:53 am| Posted in Barack Obama, GOP Cargo Cult, fauxtrage |

Fig 1-A: In which the Right Wing Blogosphere is portrayed by a hapless moth and Reality (with its Well Known Liberal Bias) will be played, in a special guest appearance, by this garden bug-zapper.

Now, Barack Obama made an error in relating the story of his great uncle’s role in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp at the end of World War Two:

“Speaking in New Mexico on Memorial Day, Obama said a great-uncle had helped to liberate the Auschwitz death camp at the end of World War II. ‘I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps,’ Obama said… He continued: ‘And the story in my family is that when he came home, he just went into the attic, and he didn’t leave the house for six months. All right? Now, obviously something had affected him deeply, but at the time, there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain.’”

“That may be a fact, the RNC noted gleefully — but only if Obama’s uncle had served in the Red Army of Joseph Stalin, which liberated Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945.

Obviously, like Hillary’s sniper fire and George Bush’s National Guard service, this was all a big lie, then? And the Republicans were going to get gloating rights forever and ever?

Sadly, No!

Obama’s campaign said yesterday that he had erred in naming the camp but not in describing the role of his great-uncle, who partook in the liberation of Buchenwald. ‘Senator Obama’s family is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles in World War II — especially the fact that his great uncle was a part of liberating one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald. Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically,’ Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.”

But of course, Right Wing bloggers Dan Riehl and Steve Gilbert of Sweetness and Light, never ones to let the truth or anything else ruin a good “Gotcha!” moment, decided that the best, most funnest thing to do down there in that hole of theirs was to keep digging.

Riehl compadre Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light did some digging and discovered there is a website dedicated to preserving the history of the 89th Infantry Division of World War II, the division in which Obama’s great uncle served and helped liberate the Ohrdruf satellite of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Seeking to get to the bottom of a mystery that had been solved hours earlier, Gilbert dutifully fired off an email to the site’s owners, Ray and Mark Kitchell, thus setting up the greatest bitch slap in history:

Are you ready for this? You’re so not ready for this. Here goes Gilbert, who’s like a dog that can’t stop sniffing its own ass, pre-congratulating himself for being the first to call into question Obama’s uncle’s service (and writing to a total stranger whose ideological leanings he knows nothing about, I might add):

—– Original Message —–
From: Steve Gilbert
To: markkitchell@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:14 AM
Subject: Any Record Of Charles W Payne?

Mr. Kitchell,

As you may have heard by now, Barack Obama has claimed that his great uncle Charlie Payne was a member of the 89th Div that liberated Buchenwald.

According to records his full name is either Charles W Payne or Charles T Payne (most likely the former), and he was born in 1924 — and he is still alive today.

He most likely was from Kansas at the time of enlistment.

Do you have any record of this gentleman?

Thank you,

Steve Gilbert
sweetness-light.com

PS - If you go to my website, you will see that I was probably the first to note the error in Mr. Obama’s first claims about his “uncle.”

Obama Claims His Uncle Liberated Auschwitz | Sweetness & Light
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-claims-his-uncle-liberated-auschwitz

The response?

Please crawl back under the rock you came out from.

Good day

Raymond Kitchell, veteran 89th Inf Div

Hahahahaha!!

Ahem.

The end.