I have been reading FightTheSmears.com, because, well…THANK FUCKING GOD!!!

My father and I were talking last night about how this simple concept would have saved Kerry’s campaign.

FightTheSmears has started with the big smears flying around about Barack Obama, including the one where he is a Muslim. And the one about Michelle Obama using the term “Whitey” in a speech.

The rumor (what Barack’s people called smear) is stated, and you click on a link allowing the truth to appear. Is it truth? Well, the site is providing counters to rumors that do not make sense.

For instance, we have

Smear: Barack Obama is a Muslim.

Truth: Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.

Because this is a site from the official Obama campaign, they did not write the truth this way, “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian. You fucking idiot”.

Apparently people hate it when you call them stupid, stupid.

I think what annoyed me was the people who continued to believe that Barack Obama was a Muslim even though he wrote about being a Christian and publicly attended a mega church on the South Side of Chicago. Insisting that Obama was a Muslim in the face of that evidence??? Yes, you are stupid.

And while our particular style of governance attempts to give everyone a voice, even the very stupid– those of us not in the very stupid camp have forgotten that we have the right to tell people buying into uninformed hysteria that they are wrong, and here are facts that comport with reality.

Sometimes I fantasize about doing a Cesar Millan dog whisperer ‘Tsst’ to claim my alpha status over stupid people. Because I am arrogant that way. I’ve never actually seen the Dog Whisperer. I did see the episode of South Park that mocked it, thought…

Ooooh, who’s uninformed now?

FightTheSmears does invite readers to submit rumors they have heard. Rumors discover via an email forward–one in all caps, perhaps. One that crashes your browser and mentions angels? No? Not ringing a bell?

The campaign is young. The smears have only begun…And Bill Maher could have much of what I have just said, but with punchlines. And pot jokes.