It’s by David Horowitz, a right-wing publicist who gets impatient with his side’s “over-the-top hysteria” about the red reign of Chairman Obama:
I have recently received commentaries that claim that “Obama’s speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history” and “never has a politician in this land had such a quasi-religious impact on so many people” and “Obama is a narcissist,” which leads the author to then compare Obama to David Koresh, Charles Manson, Stalin and Saddam Hussein. Excuse me while I blow my nose.
Bonus pleasure: Brendan Nyhan, the very earnest left-of-center moderate who linked to the post, cannot figure out the “blow my nose” bit.
If David Horowitz is criticizing the right wing’s rhetoric as being over the top, then the right must be way, way beyond the point of utter derangement at this point. Horowitz’s site, frontpagemag.com, is by and for screeching lunatics committed to character assasination. They once ran an article that falsely accused an anti-Israeli writer’s dead, Holocaust-survivor mother of being a Nazi collaborator, and I had to email editor Jamie Glazov twice before he removed the comment (also, he never answered my email). I’m on Horowitz’s emailing list, so I get to skim his rants about how universities are forums for hard-core Communist indoctrination (his solution is to have the government ensure that college professors are politically unbiased) on a regular basis.
Horowitz was put on earth to make Martin Peretz look sane. Now, apparently, God wants Horowitz to look sane, so we have people who think Barack Obama is Stalin.