re: #131 Killgore Trout

Anonymous sources for an outrageous and unprovable claim is one of the first signs of BS. At the risk of invoking the MBF, let’s flip the script. Suppose a news source claims anonymous Obama aides said he’s “africanizing and socializing the American economy and experience” as his father instructed. Would you believe it? I wouldn’t.

The problem with “flipping the script” is that the proposed “Obama” version is incoherent with what Obama himself says.

On the other hand, Mitt has talked about how Obama’s worldview is strangely “not American” and not pushed back against much stronger and uglier propositions that Obama is somehow The Other. He’s also sold the line that Obama is cozening the US’s enemies and “apologizing” to them.