Welcome to Bizarro Amerika!

Friday, the Drudge Report (Has Sam posted this on the muche yet?) Friday, the Drudge Report prominently displayed several mainstream media reports about energy shortages across several Western states and linked to a story from prisonplanet.com claiming the Texas blackouts were “a direct consequence of the Obama administration’s agenda to lay siege to the coal industry, launch a takeover of infrastructure under the contrived global warming scam, and help usher in the post-industrial collapse of America.”

Rush Limbaugh mocked news reports Mexico had been importing power to Texas during the emergency and argued that federal red tape had stopped construction of new electric utilities.

“It’s not just in Texas, that’s everywhere,” Limbaugh said, according to a transcript on his website. “And, folks, let me tell you something: If Obama gets his way, rolling blackouts will be the new norm. What do you think ‘green energy’ is?”

“As valuable as the Internet can be in helping to spread information, most people know that you can’t believe everything you read, and they should check the source before relaying every alarming story they read,” Pfeiffer wrote on the White House blog.

“One such story is going around the Internet over the past two days claiming that the Obama administration is somehow responsible for the rolling blackouts in Texas that have caused terrible hardship for so many Texans,” he added. “The source is questionable and the story is unquestionably false.”

THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE AMERICA STUPIDER: THEY'RE NOT ALL ON FOX

The #1 "Hot Search" in America today, according to Google, is "obama triggers blackouts." You may know that power plants in Texas that were inadequately prepared for the unusual Southern cold shut down, leading to blackouts in the state, as well as a natural gas emergency in New Mexico. But conspiracy-monger Alex Jones doesn't think the cold is the real problem:

In today’s edition of Prison Planet, Jones and fellow lunatic Paul Joseph Watson attempt to lay the blame for the recent power outages in Texas on President Obama's clean energy policies. Lieutenant Governor of Texas David Dewhurst does not share their view. He blames the rolling blackouts on a "lack of adequate winterization and preparation" at power plants that have broken down amidst freezing temperatures, according to the Dallas Morning News. These include three new coal plants.

Here's the post at Jones's Prison Planet site that spread this cockamamie notion: "Obama's Blocking Of New Power Plants Triggers Nationwide Blackouts."

The rolling blackouts now being implemented in Texas and across the country as record cold weather grips the United States are a direct consequence of the Obama administration’s agenda to lay siege to the coal industry, launch a takeover of infrastructure under the contrived global warming scam, and help usher in the post-industrial collapse of America....

The Obama administration is conducting industrial warfare against the United States. Obama's 2008 promise to "bankrupt" the coal industry by placing suffocating restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions even as China and other countries are given free reign to pollute at will is now coming to fruition. This is all part of the "post-industrial revolution" that the global elite have promised to enforce as a means of turning the United States into a decaying banana republic....

Of course, Obama's "bankrupt" remark -- presented out of context in the Prison Planet article ("So, if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant they can, but it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted") -- was part of Obama's vision of a future in which a cap-and-trade system would be in effect and energy companies would be making the transition to other fuel sources. Obviously, there's no such system yet, and such a transition isn't really taking place.

But the rumors fly, and America becomes an ever more superstitious, ignorant nation -- not because the Internet is full of nonsense, but because no one in America who's in a position to make a difference makes any real effort to rebut the nonsense. Some don't bother because they don't see the problem. Others find that it's useful to have the public kept angry and ignorant. Whatever the reason, America continues its decline.

speaking of Drudge's sinking..

here's his and Real Clear Politics Obama headline..

Obama: Corporate Profits 'Have To Be Shared By American Workers'...

here's what Obama said..(link) (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/02/07/obama_corporate_profits_have_to_be_shared_by_american_workers.html)

"If we're fighting to reform the tax code and increase exports, the benefits cannot just translate into greater profits and bonuses for those at the top. They have to be shared by American workers, who need to know that opening markets will lift their standard of living as well as your bottom line," President Obama told the Chamber of Commerce on Monday morning.

oy vey...

what do you mean oy vey...?