IT COULD WORK! Now Al Qaeda is racist? Next up, we accuse them of sexism! “I am not sure whether Obama is dumb enough to believe this, or simply hopes his audience is dub enough to believe it. But in this YouTube age, our media-savvy Pres has to know that he can’t deliver laugh lines to South African television without seeing them all over the world.”

But Sissy Willis has figured out that it’s all about domestic American politics: If Tea Partiers = Racist, and Terrorists = Racist, then Tea Partiers = Terrorists? Haven’t they tried that one already? It’s pretty early in the term to be repeating the playbook. But it’s not like they’ve got many plays in there . . . .