Well, that tears it. Cuban Communist nightmare thug Fidel Castro wrote a sympathetic newspaper column about our president, which means that Obama must resign immediately. “The extreme right hates him for being African-American and fights what the president does to improve the deteriorated image of that country,” Castro wrote. Right at this moment, legions of angry wingnuts are printing out this column as definitive proof that garden variety liberal bleeding hearts are in league with Latin American dictators. [Reuters]

• YOUR MONTHLY UPDATE ON THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE: Recently a few half-powerful (or anonymous) Democrats have been overheard expressing their support for Reinstating The Fairness Doctrine. Well, those people are retarded if so. Nevertheless, it’s fueled the Right’s fear campaign that Obama will reinstate this thing and Sean Hannity’s listeners will be forced to turn over their property and the Internet to any Mexican with a driver’s license. A White House spokesman, however, released another brief statement reiterating that Obama does not want to do this. This will only make Republicans more skeptical. [Fox News]

Right Wing News (via On Deadline) has compiled a list of “right-of-center” bloggers’ “Least Favorite People on the Right,” debunking the myth that everyone on the scary side loves each other. RWN got 45 responses, and topping the hate poll is spunky government-destroyer Ron Paul with 23 votes. The list, in full after the jump, carefully balances the usual targets of lefty exploitation (Pat Robertson, Ann Coulter, James Dobson) with Republicans who once may have strayed from the party line (John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Arlen Specter) with gay gay GAY legislators (Larry Craig). Two Republican frontrunners for 2008, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, earn more jeers than George W. Bush, a good sign for GOP electability in the coming year. MORE »