Leonard Pitts Jr.: Texas GOP wages war on thinking
Posted: 07/22/2012 06:00:00 AM PDT
Some recent headlines from the alternate universe of modern conservatism:
Rush Limbaugh claims the bad guy in the new Batman movie was named Bane to remind voters of Mitt Romney's controversial tenure at Bain Capital.
Michelle Bachmann, citing zero credible evidence, accuses a Muslim-American aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio's crack investigators announce that President Obama's long-form birth certificate is a fake.
In other words, it's just an average week down there in Crazy Town. And that lends a certain context to a tidbit brought to national attention last week by Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." Meaning a