The story goes something like this (that is, if you read what’s on the Internet):
President Obama (born in Kenya, as all conservatives know) contracted Ebola, congenitally, at birth. He’s disguised his hatred of white Americans for many years (as all Republicans know). And now–finally–he’s spread Ebola in the United States, with a goal of reducing the white population so that it is less than the black population.
That’s the reason he won’t agree to a travel ban on flights from Africa–which is one country, as all Fox commentators know–because he, alone, knows that that won’t change anything. And the three people in America (including the one who has died) contracted Ebola from Obama and not from Africa. So the way to solve the Ebola problem is to quarantine the President (some people believe this has already happened).
I hesitate in writing this piece because once it’s published too many people will believe that it’s the truth. A month and a half after Obama was elected, I published a satirical piece on CounterPunch that was titled “Impeach Obama.” In that brief essay I wrote that he’d been wasting his time searching for a dog for his children, filling in basketball brackets, and ignoring his presidential duties. He hadn’t fixed everything. Too many readers thought I was serious.
Two years later, a state senator in a Southern state sent me an email. He was running for re-election and asked if I could bring him up-to-date with the Impeach Obama movement.