These people are willing to believe anything, no matter what the source or how ridiculous, that furthers an agenda or supports a particular world view.

Of course, there are people around here like that, too. They tend to think that September 11 was in "inside job" and Osama had nothing to do with it. But I digress.

What Cenk left out of his summary of Andy Martin's "theory" is how Bill Ayers somehow fits into this. According to Martin, Ayers and other radical sixties leftists recruited Obama, who, we must keep in mind, is a secret Muslim with terrorist connections in this alternate universe. So those who sought to destroy the United States forty years ago have joined forces with those who seek to destroy her today, in spite of the fact they really have nothing in common other than violent tendencies and a hatred for or distrust of America. This sounds more like the plot to a bad science fiction novel.

Martin is a devotee of classical right wing ideology. That is to say he is a racist. All racism is inherently right wing. What defines the right wing is a rejection of democracy, where all humans are equal, and an embrace of a social hierarchy where some people have an inherent right to rule all others, or even kill them. This emblem of superiority may be race (Hitler), heroism (according to Mussolini), religion (according to the dominionists) or wealth (neoconservatism).

The political left embraces human equality as its fundamental principle an rejects slavery, imperialism and other forms and institutions of social or political hierarchy. However, misguided usage of right wing ideology is not unknown to the left. A recent example is leftist usage of anti-Semitism as a tool against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. The Israeli-Palestinian issue, in fact, has given birth to a bizarre conflation of left and right; we see racists embrace an anti-imperialist message, pretending to in solidarity with the Palestinian cause against Israeli ("Jewish") occupation and injustice while anti-imperialists, impatient with the occupation, lash out against not just the Israeli right but on all Jews (who "control everything").

Of course, that makes it very difficult to tell who's really left and who's really right.

Returning to Mr. Martin, any one can make sense out of his droppings probably belongs in the state hospital.