Boo-hooing over boos

The right-wing slow burn over the election results festers months later, and has long passed the point of absurdity.

Now The World According To The Wingnutosphere has a new meme, and it's just as idiotic as all the rest.

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game was held in St. Louis on Tuesday, and President Obama was there to throw the ceremonial first pitch.

The crowd cheered as the new Commander-in-Chief strolled onto the field. Everybody remembered what a buffoon Bush was, and they were so glad that the long, insufferable Bush fog of 8 years had finally lifted.

But the wingnutosphere has its own spin, and by golly, it's sticking to it.

At first, the right-wing brain trust claimed Obama was actually booed, and that the cheers were really a recording of cheers from a different event, piped in over the public address system to drown out the boos.

When this claim was met with skepticism, they offered an even sillier theory. They claimed Fox "edited out" all the boos from the broadcast.

Well, if they did, they would have had at most 7 seconds to splice the sound file together. That's because the event was broadcast live - or nearly live, assuming there was the usual 7-second delay.

Wingnuts' utter inability to grasp that you can't "edit" live telecasts reminds me of the episode of 'The Simpsons' in which Homer asked if cartoons were aired live. The response: "Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists."

But keep an eye on the freeposphere. They're background noise now, but we always have to stay alert so they don't strike from behind.