On the Internets, Laziness (and Gullibility) Has Its Consequences

Link to October 23 salon.com post, "Shocker for conservatives: Obama may not hate the Constitution".

Alex Koppleman describes how the right, including Rush Limbaugh, falls for a hoax about the president's college thesis.

Excerpt: As a bit of basic research would have shown Limbaugh, Obama didn't technically write a thesis at Columbia -- at the time, Columbia didn't really have senior theses -- though he did write a thesis-length paper. But it was on Soviet nuclear disarmament, not the Constitution.

Research? It's not in a bloviator's job description.