For those of you who have had the pleasure of knowing me long-term, you know I am a big fan of practical jokes and even straight-up hoaxes. In fact our next show is going to be about recent and various hoaxes including the one that tripped up Limbaugh recently.

Sometimes you just have to put out misinformation and see if anything happens. My attempt to float the rumor that I had a cocaine-driven gay sex encounter with John McCain (ala Larry Sinclair) in his limo fizzled.

My Youtube death announcement for Rush Limbaugh pissed off some people, but no one was fooled, at least not after checking the news.

My 2004 blog "National Guard Vets For Truth" drew angry fire from conservatives even though I was more generous in making the satire obvious. If I remember right it started "Even though I have no hard evidence whatsoever to support my claims, I am OUTRAGED that people refuse to hear what I know about George Bush from serving with him in The National Guard."

But it doesn't even make a difference.

The guy who brought the satirical version of Obama's Columbia thesis to Rush claims he missed the "satire" keyword... to my way of thinking the author was TOO generous, but the real point is it STILL didn't matter.

Unsubstantiated, unsourced (well, fake sourced), and it's on Rush. People "praying to Obama" ... it's on Lou Dobb's blog (then hastily removed a week later).

So I made this.

I knew it couldn't be on YouTube, so I put it on an obscure .ning site for an internet "radio" show (conservative, natch). I knew I needed "plausible" denial for the lack of details, ala Larry Sinclair, "protecting my sources." Presumably from Obama's thugs. I knew I had to make the audio and video look and sound crappy, "snuck out."

I did all these things but still made it so outrageous that any sane person would KNOW it was a joke.

Then I posted it on Pajamas media and some other conservative sites to see who takes the bait. At least one is convinced (see comments), thinks it is "sad" that people do this. My (also clearly satirical, at least in my mind) twitter feed "gayteabaggers" (see the link on that page for tea party mischief that fooled at least one person) has been spreading the page to the faithful. One lefty even shot back:

"Your God wants poor people to die! Pray to THAT!"

It's juvenile, silly, and too, too EASY.

So let's up the ante. Let's get this on Fox News. Want to help? Write a blog (any side is OK, including "this is clearly a hoax"), tweet it, etc. It's ALL good.

When Rush was called out on the satire he said, in effect, "well it's still true, and good comedy has an element of truth in it."

Well he's partially right. The truth that the "comedy" (satire's actually different, not that he'd know) sought to expose was the STUPIDITY of people like Rush. Their rabid desire to believe even the most outrageous things if it fits their prejudices.

Dig in, freaks!!!

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This is at the bottom because it can't go anywhere else in my editor, previous fake ad from 2008 campaign: