Watergate Manufacturing, Inc.

As Steve Benen notes, pretty much everything is "Obama's Watergate" to Republicans:  going on vacation, eating a hamburger, brushing his teeth, and he possibly may have farted once HISTORY'S GREATEST MONSTER ahem sorry.  This week's Watergate, according to the American Spectator, is...Media Matters.

No, really.

They're comparing the paranoid President Nixon's private investigators hired to find anything they could on his political opponents to...a media watchdog group.  See, a media watchdog group that calls out Republicans on their lies HAS to be working for President Obama, who HAS to have an "enemies list" just like Nixon! Q.E.D.!

And former Reagan official Jeffrey Lord spends 8 pages on this tortured logic.  Well, really, he spends 5 and a half pages rehashing Watergate itself, and the rest on that bastion of journalistic freedom, Tucker Carlson, and his hit jobs on Media Matters at the Daily Caller.

Why?

Media Matters head David Brock wrote a book: The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine. And of course, the Obama White House HAD EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE BOOK because of course the CIA and the FBI and the NSA and every other intel agency in DC had to have illegally mind-controlled the patriots at FOX to say bad things about the President because...umm...CHICAGO WAY!  WHITE HOUSE THUGS!  KENYAN TYRANT!  No way these guys are journalists who cracked the unknown secret that FOX News doesn't like Democrats!

Investigations are needed! Questions must be asked! And Jeffrey Lord says the President must be shamed into resignation because this is the WORST THING A PRESIDENT HAS EVER DONE.  Just the fact that Media Matters exists is central to his point!  It is irresponsible not to speculate!

Seriously.  8 pages of this.  It's hysterical.  There's Obama Derangement Syndrome, and then there's American Spectator, where tinfoil is a way of life.