OK, I’m now nearly convinced that the breitbart.com gang are just trolling the Internets with these mind-bogglingly ridiculous VETTING articles. I mean, nobody could possibly take this kind of absurd, over the top propaganda seriously, could they?

EXCLUSIVE - THE VETTING - BARACK OBAMA, THE FIRST TEA PARTIER.

Well, it may be damned hard to believe anyone could be this strange, but they really are serious about this stuff.

Breitbart blogger John Sexton’s EXCLUSIVE BOMBSHELL: a photo that’s been available to the public for 15 years, showing Barack Obama leading a Fourth of July parade in 1997, in a Revolutionary War era costume.

Sexton wants his audience to believe that the costume makes Obama exactly the same as a Tea Party member. Let the sheer stupidity of that one sink in for a minute.

The rest of Sexton’s hilarious derp-filled piece is basically an extended whine about those monstrous liberals who mocked the Tea Partiers by calling them “teabaggers.”

Monstrous liberals like, oh, for example, their founder Andrew Breitbart, who declared in May 2010 that he was Proud to Be a Tea Bagger.

A screenshot of Andrew Breitbart’s brave, forward-thinking declaration of teabaggishness:

Breitbart’s post still exists on the new breitbart.com, but oddly enough, they seem to have removed his byline from it: I’m Proud to Be a Tea Bagger.