Obama Derangement Syndrome in the Right-Wing Media

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Back when I started writing this blog, just over three years ago, there was a commonly remarked upon "ailment" called Bush Derangement Syndrome.  I'm sure that if I had any conservative readers in those days, I'd have been accused of being a BDS sufferer.  It didn't matter what the charge was, or what beef we liberals had with Bush/Cheney, it was hand-waved off as BDS, a knee-jerk automatic hate impulse with no basis in fact.

I of course felt that I had good reason to take issue with the Bush Administration (as did the groundswell of Obama voters, clearly).  I also thought it was ironic, considering that the same conservatives leveling BDS diagnoses were simultaneously suffering from CDS: Clinton Derangement Syndrome, since they managed to lay off every Bush failure as "Clinton's Fault."  I have pretty good proof too that their charges were mental delusions:  Socks the Cat's Christmas card list? Travlegate? Impeachment for lying about a blow job? Really?

Well, the derangement pendulum has swung back, as I knew that it would. We've been seeing it since the first tea bagger dunked his virgin bag.  And the movement that was practically born in full CDS--namely FOX "News," conservative talk radio and conservative blogs--are now in full-blown ODS, levelling everything and anything they can at President Barack Obama, not caring if it is true, if it matters, or if it even makes sense.  Which seems a lot closer to CDS than it does to BDS.  Now, when they eventually get around to seriously proposing impeachment--and they will--let's see if it can be over something even dumber than a blow job.

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"Summer of rage": Obama Derangement Syndrome grips conservative media once again

In recent weeks, conservative media have been consumed by "Obama Derangement Syndrome," accusing President Obama of being insane, of colluding with Russian spies, of trying to create a civil war and implement one world government, among other things, while also claiming that his administration is trying to control everything under the sun, including the Internet and, inexplicably, your toilet. . .
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