The library book hoax

Tim Blair:

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The claim: that a Dartmouth student was questioned by Homeland Security agents after making a library request for Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book. Who fell for it, besides Carville and Ivins? A surprising number of gullibloggers and fellow members of the Frightened-American community.

Some doubted the story from the outset. For others, news that the story was wrong merely caused them to mutate it into further fake-but-true evidence of Smirkler the Hurricane Monkey’s wicked plans to imprison everybody in Intelligent Design re-education camps:

The report of the FBI harassing students over Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book is apparently a hoax, but that it was so plausible says volumes of how we view our government.

Yes. Yes, it does.

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