This Week's GTFO Award: Frank Gaffney

It's nearly mid-June, but there are still people pushing those campaign spook stories about Obama being a secret Muslim. The Washington Times isn't the most fair and balanced newspaper, but this shit is bananas:

"After five months in office, and most especially after his just-concluded visit to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, however, a stunning conclusion seems increasingly plausible: The man now happy to have his Islamic-rooted middle name featured prominently has engaged in the most consequential bait-and-switch since Adolf Hitler duped Neville Chamberlain over Czechoslovakia at Munich."

Huh.

Couple things. One: are you implying that using his Arabic middle name to make a connection with his Muslim audience is somehow dishonest? Did we just find out that Obama's middle name is Hussein? And two: the minute you bring Hitler into a conversation about a dude's name, you look like a nut. Hitler ordered the slaughter of millions of Jews. Obama is attempting to begin a dialogue between the United States and the Muslim world. Which, unless America wants to be the anti-social dickhead of the planet, is a good idea.

Gaffney goes on to list the ways in which Obama gave the Muslim world a big wink-and-nudge:

"Mr. Obama referred four times in his speech to "the Holy Koran." Non-Muslims--even pandering ones--generally don't use that Islamic formulation.

But Muslims do. And he was speaking to Muslims. I'd doubt that Gaffney wouldn't go nukular if a Muslim leader spoke to a Christian audience and referred to the Bible as "that book where God kills everyone he hates" or something like that.

Gaffney strikes me as the kind of guy who thinks that the only language worth learning is American, and that diplomacy is facilitated with missiles. Maybe that's why he completely misunderstood Obama's speech--he's not interested in communicating with others.