The latest eruption from the fever swamp makes it into the New York Times: The Mystery of the Bulge in the Jacket.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 - What was that bulge in the back of President Bush’s suit jacket at the presidential debate in Miami last week?

According to rumors racing across the Internet this week, the rectangular bulge visible between Mr. Bush’s shoulder blades was a radio receiver, getting answers from an offstage counselor into a hidden presidential earpiece. The prime suspect was Karl Rove, Mr. Bush’s powerful political adviser.

When the online magazine Salon published an article about the rumors on Friday, the speculation reached such a pitch that White House and campaign officials were inundated with calls.

The source of the “Bush had something in his clothes” rumor is Dave Lindorff, who wrote about it for Salon: Bush’s mystery bulge.

So who is Dave Lindorff?

In February 2003, Lindorff wrote one of the nastiest, most insane pieces ever about George W. Bush, for the far-left journal Counterpunch: Bush and Hitler and the Strategy of Fear.

If we Americans value our society, our polity, our rights and liberties, and our security, we must begin exposing George W. Bush and his War Party for what they are: craven usurpers aiming at nothing less than the undermining of all those things that most of us hold dear.

It’s going a bit far to compare the Bush of 2003 to the Hitler of 1933. Bush simply is not the orator that Hitler was. But comparisons of the Bush Administration’s fear mongering tactics to those practiced so successfully and with such terrible results by HItler and Goebbels on the German people and their Weimar Republic are not at all out of line.

This is who Salon and the New York Times are listening to.

UPDATE at 10/9/04 12:19:10 pm:

Jeff Harrell also posted about this latest outbreak of Bush Derangement Syndrome yesterday.