Question: why do we get mad when Ahmadinejad spouts shit, and orgasmic when teabaggers do?

MSNBC

The U.S. and several European delegations walked out of the U.N. speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday after he said most people believe the U.S. government was behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks in order to assure Israel's survival.

In his speech to the annual General Assembly, Ahmadinejad said it was mostly U.S. government officials who believed a terrorist group was behind the suicide hijacking attacks that brought down New York's World Trade Center and hit the Pentagon.

Another theory, he said, was "that some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime" — his way of characterizing Israel.

Nuts, right?

But when Palin and Gingrich go full birther and allege the President is a secret Muslim, when Christine O'Donnell insists that scientists are engineering mice with human brains, when Jan Brewer lies about beheadings, when Palin lies every time she speaks, half the nation stands and cheers. The Tea Party can claim that Obama is an African-born, socialist, Muslim, terrorist-coddling, white-people hating, anti-colonial, white-people hating rat out to undermine America - and they pick up support.

I thought a lie was a lie.

What the fuck?