The Rachel Maddow Show   |  February 04, 2013

Facts no remedy for anti-Obama conspiracies

Rachel Maddow points out that once a conspiracy theory about President Obama gets started, whether it's about economic numbers or his birth certificate, the actual truth is powerless to stop them.

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>>> in october, the month before the election when the unemployment rate dropped a couple of tenth of a percent, the former head of ge said it was made up. the chicago guys will do anything, can't debate so change numbers, jack welch started it, and then it became a thing on the right. it was made up.

>> the economic data that the obamas peddled is just phoney.

>> are they playing around the numbers? look it is the bureau of labor statistics , hilda solis works directly for obama .

>> are you saying they're cooking the books? you are saying that, aren't you? the president faked the unemployment rate , he made it up. also the president is bulldozing president reagan 's childhood home.

>> this is one wall that probably shouldn't be torn down. this apartment complex used to be the home of a young ronald reagan , it was denied landmark status and the university of chicago is ready to tear it down. the university, which has close ties to the obamas is also trying to become the site of the presidential library . that has drawn strong concerns that they may try to turn the reagan house into a parking lot for an obama library.

>> and then president obama will exhume ronald reagan , won't he? sounds terrible, to say that president obama is personally going to bulldoze something related to reagan , even if he isn't? and do you remember wing gate? it is the secret i am a muslim ring, the ring obama has been wearing for more than 30 years has the first part of the islamic declaration of faith. did i say the ring means he is muslim? no, i meant gay. it is a wedding ring , but it is a gay wedding ring, you can see why it would be confused. it is about the whole other theory that thinks he is gay, so the world thinks he is gay-married. others upset about this picture of the president throwing a football. in that corner of the right-wing media, president obama was not actually throwing a football in this photo. you see, you can tell because he is looking slightly up there. that is just unexplainable. why would you do such a thing? clearly it is doctored? there is no way in football, you always look to the down or side unless you're a secretly gay-married muslim, bulldozing reagan . now this, according to the right, this is not really the picture of the president shooting a gun. yes, when the new republic asked the president if he ever shot a gun, he said yes, he was skeet-shooting. according to them, this is not really the picture of the president shooting a gun, you see they can tell because the president is shooting with the gun sort of too flat. it is too straight, see, now, he is too straight. then there is the errant smoke where it shouldn't be. also the stamps, bad form, can't be real. also a little pot belly . no, i'm not kidding, that was actually part of the argument against the veracity of the picture, you can see his tummy, where you actually had a jelly donut . where he wears a muslim ring and a gay ring and doesn't really play football, just looks like he is, him having a little poochy belly means they're shopping for political gun control . you know how they do. now it is time for "the last word" with 100% ezra klein more than usual, good to see you, ezra.

>> and i'm exciting about this world where in which i look bad in a picture i can doctor it.

>> i am going to say all the pot belly , i have added the leftist fact