Guilt by association time! In the Democratic debates in Philly Wednesday night, moderator George Stephanopoulos asked Barack Obama to explain his relationship to bomb-happy Weather Underground vet William Ayers. Obama visited the Ayers residence once in 1995, to attend a gathering at which his predecessor in the state senate announced that she was stepping down. He and Ayers also both served on the board of an anti-poverty non-profit (and you know what they say about people who served together on the boards of anti-povery non-profits, nudge nudge wink wink.)
Yesterday Slate’s Timothy Noah, frustrated by the pointlessness of this sort of attack, came up with a contest:
I will call my game Six Degrees of Adolf Hitler. Readers are invited to connect, via documented acquaintanceships—friendly or unfriendly—Der Führer with any one of the three remaining major presidential candidates. Whoever is able to connect a candidate to Hitler with the fewest number of "degrees," or steps, will be named the winner.
Later that day Stephen Colbert ventured his own version, linking Obama to Hitler in six steps via the Pope (watch the video below.)
Given the Obama-Ayers-Hitler axis of evil, I think it should be pretty clear to all of us that the Democratic candidate is a terrorist-loving, Nazi-supporting, gun-hating, religion-disdaining, arugula-eating, Bruce-Springsteen-listening elitist yuppie Muslim Black Panther. And perhaps that’s why Hamas has decided to endorse him.
Actually, the Hamas news suggests a new kind of political maneuver: the destructo-endorsement. What better way to derail your enemy’s credibility than by endorsing them, thereby forcing them to be affiliated (at least in the minds of people who don’t understand cause and effect) with your own ideology? I mean, wouldn’t it be bad news for Hamas if they were destructo-endorsed by a bunch of Jews? Like, um, this website?
Listen, Jewcy’s pretty free with its favors. We’re happy to damage the credibility of all sorts of organizations with an endorsement smackdown. Hamas is really just the beginning. So if you’ve got a group you’d like to see us destructo-endorse, leave a suggestion in the comments and we’ll start prepping the press release.
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