We in the reality-based community know that the group “Friends of Hamas” doesn’t exist except in the fevered imaginations of those who hate the President and his pick for DoD, Chuck Hagel.
Today we learned the origin of the bizarre “Friends” trope. Dan Friedman of the New York Daily News explains* how he made up the name and threw it out jokingly — or so he thought! — in a conversation with a GOP aide on the Hill. He also mentioned the “Junior League of Hezbollah” for good measure. Friedman writes:
“The names were so over-the-top, so linked to terrorism in the Middle East, that it was clear I was talking hypothetically and hyperbolically. No one could take seriously the idea that organizations with those names existed — let alone that a former senator would speak to them. Or so I thought.”
Dan Friedman, you obviously thought wrong. First of all, these folks have no sense of humor, they are self-righteously grim. Second, they believe the president is determined to destroy our way of life, so it stands to reason his cabinet picks must be evil too, especially in the second term when the president doesn’t have to run again and can show his true Kenyan Muslim Communist colors.
Anyway, next thing Friedman knew, Breitbart.com had a “Friends of Hamas” story and the rest of the neocon/Tea Party world picked it up and ran with it.
This preposterous and pathetic little story tells you everything you need you know about our politics right now. The “Friends of Stupid” have way too much power.
* “‘Friends of Hamas’: My role in the birth of a rumor”
Embattled Farmers 