Learning From the Master

There's a name for assertions such as the assertion that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not in the United States. The name is "Big Lie," and the man who coined the phrase defined a "big lie" as "a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." The phrase and definition were introduced in Mein Kampf by one of history's all-time great hate mongers, Adolph Hitler. The birthers have learned their lessons well.