In the New York Daily News, political correspondent Michael Saul has a piece about the crudely faked “Obama thesis” that tricked Rush Limbaugh and a gaggle of right wing bloggers: Limbaugh falls for Obama thesis hoax - but is in no Rush to apologize.

“So here is who we have as our president of the United States: an anti-constitutionalist man who finds it an obstacle and is finding ways around it on purpose, unconstitutionally,” Limbaugh said on his show.

“Much of what he’s doing is unconstitutional, and I’m waiting for the lawsuits to be filed by some of these people at some point,” Limbaugh added. “How is that hope and change working out for ya, folks?”

Later in the same program, when Limbaugh learned the report was a hoax, he corrected the record, alerting listeners that the quotes from the thesis had been fabricated. But he insisted the fabricated thesis was still in line with what the president thinks.

“So I shout from the mountaintops: ‘It was satire!’” Limbaugh said on the program. “But we know he (Obama) thinks it. Good comedy, to be comedy, must contain an element of truth, and we know how he feels about distribution of wealth.”

Limbaugh said he has license to go with the fabrication because other members of the media have done this to him.

“So, I can say, “I don’t care if these quotes are made up,” he said. “I know Obama thinks it.

“You know why I know Obama thinks it? Because I’ve heard him say it.”

This ignoble little episode shows a lot about the mentality of the people who will believe anything negative about Barack Obama, anything at all, no matter how absurd or how obviously, logically false.

One look at this hoax website should have made it instantly clear to anyone that it had zero credibility — and the idea that the site would have a world exclusive scoop (found nowhere else on the Internet) went way beyond ridiculous, into the realm of truly brain-numbing schtoopidity.

Reminds me of Rathergate. Should have been obvious, but they needed to believe it so very badly.