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That one’s a toughie. If you are an adult, and a priest did something to you that was clearly inappropriate, you’re on your own, hopefully with the self-defense skills to say, “no, thanks man” and maybe smack him a bit. You could tell another priest at the same church/retreat center/institution/seminary/college/etc., but one of two things may be the case: #1 the priest who touched you inappropriately may be an actor of a calibre above those on Broadway, and may have fooled his fellow priests into thinking he’s not only beyond reproach but above suspicion; or #2 more likely, since they have to live with him, they’ll have seen his true colors already, and nod silently, mentally making a tally and wondering how long it will be before he gets in the newspaper for doing something worse. They may tell you to just stay away from him or to report him to the bishop/Cardinal or to his superior. In many cases, they are unable to do anything about him, since whoever is above them (bishop, Cardinal, religious superior) essentially made them live together, whether they liked it or not. Whether anything gets done for or about him depends on the bishop/Cardinal/religious superior. Some who actually believe those under them should be celibate, and they should enforce that, have been known to utilize their own informal sorts of penalties. I am aware of a late bishop who had a religious brother who had admitted to having otherwise normal sex with a consenting adult pretty much doing all the grunt work around his residence for a period of time, then returning him to his religious order. If this is something that happened when you were a minor, and you are now an adult, find out the statute of limitations where it happened, if you choose to tell law enforcement. Keep in mind that I know of at least one Cardinal who has actually actively lobbied the US state he is in not to extend that statute of limitations when it came up before the local legislature! You may also choose to tell the hierarchy whereever the offense occured, if they are offering a settlement deal to people victimized as minors and you choose to accept it. If you are a minor now, or were a minor when it happened, things become a lot more difficult if the hierarchy in the area where it happened haven’t adopted a zero tolerance policy. Generally, most minors would tell their parents or guardians, rather than approaching law enforcement or the hierarchy themselves, depending on their age and circumstances. I am aware, however, that there may have been a lot of parents who didn’t believe it if their children told them about it, or even if they did believe it, perhaps the parents told the Cardinal/bishop/religious superior, and exactly nothing happened. The parent(s) may have approached law enforcement and exactly nothing happened (see the end of this post). Or they may have considered it a solution if the church paid for you to have therapy. Even if you and/or your parents knew that the offender could end up spending months peeling potatoes, scrubbing toilets and grovelling before the bishop, somehow that just doesn’t cut it. Sometimes, it is likely the offender might not even have experienced informal personal consequences of this kind. Having grown up in the New York Archdiocese, I was well aware that “punishment assignments” for priests were a thing. (And not just for those who were sexual offenders of various kinds. It was widely known that those who got on at least one past Cardinal’s shit list also included ideological dissenters and priests who were ethnic/racial minorities.) These punishment assignments usually took the form of the priest in question being sent to a parish/church/institution considered undesirable in some way if you were an average sort of diocesan priest. (In my area, it was a particular late-Victorian church that lacked air conditioning and boasted a large and pious congregation who felt free to ask things of their priests at all hours in a neighborhood that was not rich, white, and other things considered desirable.) To the best of my knowledge, no priests ever engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with minors in my parish, but I heard rumors concerning other priests in other parishes. Apparently, the punishment assignment in an undesirable parish was a not-uncommon tactic of the Catholic hierarchy throughout the world, but the main problem with it was those who offended against minors often offended again in a different setting. I really felt for her when I read an account of a young girl sexually victimized by a priest who told the offender, “I’m going to tell the Cardinal on you!” Maybe she did, not knowing that the Cardinal wouldn’t be likely to do anything other than try to find a less desirable assignment for him. When I watched Spotlight, to me, the most shocking thing came after the movie’s formal ending. When they rolled the credits, they also displayed a list of various places in the world where priests had committed sexual offenses against minors and the number of them who were legally charged. The sad conclusion: every place with a Catholic population has had a priest scandal. You might try telling the Vatican. The Vatican made a gesture, seemingly in the right direction, by creating a department for the protection of minors in recent years. But I have doubts about how much they can actually do from Rome, and have been told by an activist that it was unfunded. My father told me when I was growing up that the way to handle a priest making inappropriate sexual advances was to switch parishes tout suite, “no explanations or goodbyes necessary”. I don’t know how many others were given advice of this sort. On the one hand, if there were ever a priest without an audience, one would think that Rome would realize there was something seriously wrong about him and start looking carefully at his conduct. On the other hand, this may have been one of those things within Catholic culture that kept such offenders off of the radar screen of the civil law enforcement authorities and enabled the priest scandal to reach the proportions that it has. Maybe I should have accounted the opening scene in Spotlight as the most shocking: in a country with separation of church and state, it depicted a police department seemingly in collusion with the Catholic hierarchy; unable or unwilling to arrest priests or engage in enforcement actions against the Church when illegal sexual conduct with a minor allegedly occurred.

I was raised in a very strict Protestant house. The nearest I can describe it is “Southern Baptist”, although I grew up in Australia and there isn't such a thing here - all the pastors I knew from “good Christian churches” had been trained at some of the leading Southern Baptist seminaries, and to this day there are a lot of things from my childhood that nearly only someone raised Southern Baptist “gets”. Good Christians didn't drink alcohol (that leads immediately to ungodly behaviour), or buy raffle tickets (that's gambling), or dance (too like fornication). Good Christian children didn't read Harry Potter (because it would teach us witchcraft) or watch the Simpsons (because it would teach us to be disrespectful to our parents). And good Christian girls certainly didn't allow themselves to be alone with a guy.We weren't a cult, and for the most part we fit neatly into “mainline” Christianity, but I grew up with a very, very narrow view of what it meant to be a Christian. I knew, of course, that not all Christians were Young Earth Creationists, but it went mostly unsaid that such Christians were only “lukewarm” in their faith. We had just the Bible, and the Bible alone, and our personal relationship with Christ - none of those man-made traditions like some of those lukewarm denominations had. Baptism was only for consenting adults who had been saved and born again.Anglicans weren't even just not “good Christians”, they had their traditions, and their written services so they weren't really worshipping, and they were altogether too much a part of the world (because good Christians are not conformed to the standards of this world). My mother's father was an Anglican priest, and as a child, I was very, very confused by this fact, because I knew he was “an Anglican pastor”, but because he was an Anglican he wasn't a “real Christian”, and I just didn't understand how someone who wasn't a Christian could dedicate his whole life to being a pastor.When I was about seventeen, my mother returned to the Anglican church, and I went with her. I still believed all the things I had been raised to believe, but I loved liturgical worship, and I had to start rethinking some things. Baptism as an adult was all fine and well, I reasoned, if you hadn't been a Christian before, but what about children like me, who couldn't pinpoint a time when they'd become a Christian, but always had been as far as they could remember? Why did we have to be Christians for years and years before we could be baptised? When I voiced this opinion, my grandfather nearly wept - “I'm so happy you've understood this! I was so upset when your parents didn't baptise you!” My father nearly wept, too, but for a very different reason - “Infant baptism is a deception and a heresy which I was delivered from!”And Catholics. Well, if Anglicans and Lutherans were lukewarm, maybe-not-real Christians, then Catholics were at best gullible decieved sheep following a man-made religion, or at worst devil-worshippers. I may personally have withheld judgement as to whether or not the Pope was the Antichrist, but for many around me it was an indisputable fact. Their tradition stood alongside the Holy Bible and sometimes overrode it. They had idols in their churches. They had priests, who stood between God and the common people, even though Christ is the only mediator between God and Man. My position that actually maybe there were some Catholics who were real Christians was not one that could be voiced except maybe, maybe to my mother. Who, being Anglican, was a lukewarm Christian and tantamount to being Catholic anyway.In my first year at university, I attended a Latin mass on campus, and one of the Catholic chaplains gushed about how brave I was to attend a Latin mass, which is intimidating because it's in Latin. I couldn't manage to explain to her that it wasn't the Latin that was intimidating (I'd been to church in languages I couldn't understand before), but getting passed the insurmountable obstacle of it being Catholic. I nearly expected to be attacked by demons during the mass, or for an angel to leap out and tell me I'd just lost my salvation.So what about the Orthodox? I've spent all this time telling you about the cosy little insulated Protestant world I grew up in, and haven't actually answered the question. Well, that's because Orthodoxy did not even appear on my radar. As a child, I might vaguely have been aware of the fact that a Greek kid I knew went to church, but I wouldn't have known that it was any different to the Catholicism of the Italian kid. If I thought about it at all, I might have thought Orthodoxy was just like Catholocism - full of idolatry, man-made traditions, people who had been decieved, and were trapped because of their culture perhaps. As a teenager, I had the vaguest idea of Orthodoxy as a vestigial place where the women covered their heads in church - probably the only thing they got right, I thought.When I left high school, I went to Bible college. It was run by Southern Baptists and fed into Southern Baptist seminaries. We didn't read much of the literature from the early church - it was mostly all the inspiring evangelical preachers and scholars of the last century. Occasionally we dipped into the writings of the Reformers, but even then you had to be wary - Luther might have sparked the reformation, but he was still a Catholic and the church named after him still baptised their babies like pagans. In my final year, I took an elective called “World Religions”, where we spent one week learning about each of the main religions we might likely encounter, visited some of their places of worship to speak to someone, or had one of them come and speak to us. Included on the list was Eastern Orthodoxy. The lecturer described it as “much closer to home”… but still, there it was, on a list of “other religions”.When I did my readings for that week, I remember saying to the lecturer (I had quite a good relationship with him where I felt comfortable expressing my views - I was worshipping in an Anglican church at that point and he was pretty well the only lecturer that didn't find that abhorrent), “It's easy to think they're just like Catholics because they look similar, but when you read about what they believe they're a lot more like us than you think.”We visited an Orthodox church, where the priest himself was a former Lutheran, and my mind was blown by the experience. Not the foreignness and beauty of the worship as so many former-Protestant converts say - as a high Anglican it was all quite familiar to me - but by the way things were explained. Naturally the class asked about icons and about the icon of Mary (idols! Idol-worship!) and I was pleasantly surprised to find that the explanations of both were reasonable, sensible, and arguably Scripture-based. Catholics didn't base their religion on the Bible (or so I believed), so I didn't expect Orthodoxy to be Bible-based, either.But, at the end of the day, I put it all out of my head and just got on with being a good, Bible-believing Christian. Because even if Orthodox did read the Bible, even if maybe they were Christians, even if maybe icons weren't idols, even if maybe Mary was a little bit remarkable and worthy of mentioning now and then… well, Orthodoxy was still foreign. An (Anglo-)Celtic girl like me certainly didn't belong remotely near Orthodoxy, and probably the good probably Christian Orthodox people I'd met would leave the Orthodox church and become a proper Evangelical-type Christian if given the proper opportunity and not bound to it through familial and cultural ties.At twenty-two, I converted to Orthodoxy through Holy Baptism and Chrismation. And that means that at twenty-one, I made a nerve-wracking phone call back home to break the news to my parents.“I see,” my father said. “Well, I'm not happy about this, but you're twenty-one, so I can't stop you. At least you're still going to church, I suppose.”And then, a little bit later - “At least your sister is going to a Baptist church, and that's how we raised her.”He was so proud of me for going to Bible college, being a good, strong, solidly Bible-based Christian. He was so proud of me for remaining a solid, true Christian even after I entered the evil, secular world of university. And now my faith is like a dirty little family secret, only mentioned in game of one-upmanship for disappointing kid stories - the other day, my sister told me that “Well, Rachel is Orthodox!” was brought up in response to someone else's 17-year-old being pregnant - and a few months ago my mother told me that she'd just discovered he'd been telling people I now kissed idols and prayed to dead people. As far as he’s concerned, that wonderful Christian daughter he raised is now a backslidden heretic decieved by a false, man-made doctrine.This answer has been a lot longer and a lot more personal than I intended, but I can't really do the question justice without it being that way. There's a lot more I could mention, about the history of Christianity and Orthodoxy's place within it, but that wouldn't really answer the question - “What do Protestant Christians who claim that Roman Catholicism is not real Christianity think about the Orthodox?”I also want to add the caveat that this isn't representative of all Protestants. I grew up a very strict, very Protestant sort of Protestant, and a lot of Protestants, if they're even aware of Orthodoxy at all, would probably find it a curiosity, perhaps worthy of respect, being such an ancient form of Christianity. But the question was asking about Protestants who claim that Roman Catholicism is not real Christianity, and so that's what I've answered. It's got to be answered by the reactions in a personal story, because most Protestants who don't think Catholics are Christian haven't even really heard of Orthodoxy unless they have a personal connection to it as my family now has. When people I grew up with find out I'm now Orthodox, the reaction is usually befuddlement - I usually have to explain what it is, and those who already have a vague idea usually don't understand why someone who grew up in the light of true Christianity would leave it for someonething different.I also want to make it clear before I finish that I'm very, very lucky, because my family is still supportive of my choice, even my father is to my face, and there are so many Orthodox converts from similar backgrounds whose families don't speak to them any more because of it.

Among conspiracy theorists Trump and the Republicans are the royal standard.Liberals don’t manufacture many, if any, conspiracy theories because liberals don’t live in fear the way conservatives do so they don’t need to justify their fears with made up stories.It is no surprise they have swamped the Obama administration with them and iced the cake with Hillary conspiracies.I’m going to post a partial list of Obama’s followed by Hillary’s. These lists are far from a complete compilation and I’m not listing the more recent ones that Trump’s campaign has generated:Obama is a secret Muslim: This one began right after he took the stage at the 2004 Democratic convention, with chain emails alleging his "true" religious affiliation. The rumor soon found its way onto the popular conservative online forum Free Republic, and took on a whole new life in the years to come. Related: Obama secretly speaks Arabic, attended a madrassa as a kid in Indonesia, referred to "my Muslim faith" in an interview, and was sworn in on a Koran.http://www.politifact.com/truth-...Obama is bringing 100 million Muslims to America: Avi Lipkin and his PR outfit Special Guests claimed to have evidence of a scheme to bring roughly 100 million Muslims from the Middle East into the United States, converting the country into an Islamic nation by the end of Obama's second term and making it easier to obliterate Israel. Obama's Secret Plot To Bring 100 Million Muslims to the USObama once aided the mujahideen: Harlem pastor and professional race-baiter James David Manning contended that in his younger days, Obama went undercover as a CIA agent to facilitate the transfer of cash and weapons to the Afghan mujahideen in the '80s, thereby aiding what would become the Taliban. Where Stupid Meets Racist: Venn Diagram Of Every Major Right Wing Obama Conspiracy!Obama is in the pocket of the Muslim Brotherhood: Billy Graham's son Franklin wants you to know that Obama is allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to take over the federal government.Obama redecorated the Oval Office in Middle Eastern style: Driven by his fierce sense of anti-American interior design, Obama got rid of the red, white, and blue decoration scheme in his White House office.Obama married a Pakistani guy: World Net Daily correspondent and conspiracymonger extraordinaire Jerome Corsi posted a video in which he claimed to have "strong" evidence that Obama was once married to his college roommate from Pakistan. The smoking gun: Photos of the chums in which the future president is "sitting about on the [Pakistani roommate's] lap." Related: For years Obama wore a gold ring on his left hand. Was it his gay-wedding ring?Obama's ring has a Koranic verse on it: The very same ring, which Obama now wears as his (straight) wedding band, is allegedly emblazoned with a key phrase in the Islamic declaration of faith: "There is no god except Allah." (It's not.)Obama was funded by a Saudi prince:Another fairy tale courtesy of Corsi: In late-'70s Chicago, Obama secured political and academic funding from a variety of sketchy Arab sponsors, including a Saudi prince. Which may explain why President Obama bowed to the Saudi king when they met in 2009.Obama was born in Kenya: In early 2008, fringe theorists began a push to prove Obama was born on foreign soil and was therefore ineligible to live in the White House. The theory gained national attention thanks to the efforts of perennial GOP candidate Alan Keyes, "birther queen" Orly Taitz, and Corsi. Related: Obama's birth certificate is a fake, he killed his grandmother in Hawaii because she knew the truth, sealed access to his birth certificate and other damning documents, and did pretty much everything you could possibly do for the sake of a phony birth certificate.Obama lost his US citizenship: According to Corsi, Obama became a citizen of Indonesia while he lived there as a child.Michelle's "whitey" tape: During the 2008 campaign, rumors surfaced that a video of Michelle Obama using the word "whitey" would be released to sink her husband's campaign. It's never materialized. Related: The time Glenn Beck called Barack Obama a racist.Michelle is a male transexual named Michael: More right wing fascination with homosexuality. Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States, was born Michael LaVaughn Robinson in Chicago, Illinois on January 17th, 1964. He was the second son born to Fraser Robinson III, a well known cocaine dealer and union thug for Crime Lord/Mayor Richard J. Daley, and Marian Shields Robinson, a transient street prostitute who was diagnosed with the HIV virus in 1998. He [Michael] was a popular high school athlete and in 1982, he accepted a scholarship to play middle linebacker for the Oregon State Beavers.Obama was a Black Panther: Well, only if you're not very good at spotting photoshopped images. Obama would have been in grade school at the time the photo was taken. Rumor has it:Obama's favorite: "That military exercises we were doing in Texas were designed to begin martial law so that I could usurp the Constitution and stay in power longer. Anybody who thinks I could get away with telling Michelle I’m going to be president any longer than eight years does not know my wife."Obama is the son of Malcolm X: Because, you know, black people. This charmer popped up on Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller's anti-Muslim website. (Geller is also known for obsessing over Shariah turkeys she believes are destroying Thanksgiving.) Home - The Geller ReportObama is the son of Frank Marshall Davis: The conspiracy film Dreams From my Real Father espouses the theory that Davis, a leftist activist, was not only Obama's ideological mentor but his biological father. Related: Obama got a nose job to make his nose look less like Davis'.Obama's mom and dad were communists: That would be his real father, Barack Obama, Sr.Obama's ghostwriter was Bill Ayers: Conservative commentators claimed they uncovered evidence that ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers was the true author of Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams from my Father. Beyond their shared radicalism, Obama asked Ayers to help because he had writer's block.Bill Ayers Admits For Second Time He Wrote Obama's 'Dreams From My Father'Obama trained to overthrow the government:In 2008, leading Obama conspiracy theorist Andy Martin declared on Fox News' Hannity's America that the then-presidential candidate had trained for "a radical overthrow of the government" during his time as a community organizer in Chicago.Obama wouldn't say the Pledge of Allegiance: During the '08 campaign, Obama was rumored to have refused to say the pledge during a town hall meeting. A photo of the incident was actually taken while the national anthem was being sung.Obama removed the flag from Air Force One:…and replaced it with his campaign logo. However the plane in question is not Air Force One, it is his campaign plane.Obama ordered soldiers to swear allegiance to him: In April 2009, a clearly satirical report detailing how secretary of defense Robert Gates was growing "extremely frustrated" with the White House's plans to scrub the Constitution from the military oath of loyalty made the rounds on the right-wing blogosphere.Obama secretly gave away American islands to Russia: Texas House candidate Wes Riddle endorsed this theory and noted the relinquishment as grounds for impeachment. However, the seven Arctic islands were actually given away in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush.Obama caused the recession—in 1995: According to a recent Daily Caller story, Obama's efforts to force banks to lend to African Americans in the mid-'90s led to the subprime mortgage crises that killed the economy in 2008.Obama's youth reeducation camps: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) warned that "young people will be put into mandatory service" at politically correct, billion-dollar camps run by the Democrats.Obama's coming for your guns: Extreme gun-rights outfits, along with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), alleged that the Obama administration is supporting the (nonexistent) United Nations Small Arms Treaty, which would lead to nationwide gun confiscation. Unfounded fears of gun confiscation have multiplied since the Newtown massacre.Obama's coming for your gold: This theory was floated by Glenn Beck—and the gold company he shilled for.Obama is planning FEMA concentration camps: Again with the camps. This theory got a big boost from Glenn Beck (who claims he didn't mean anything by it). Related: An executive order titled, "National Defense Resources Preparedness," was issued in the middle of March 2012. Conservative commentators saw it as a martial law power-grab that allowed the president to commandeer farmland, steal everyone's food, and draft any American into slave labor for a war of aggression against Iran. Also, he has a "secret vault" at Interpol's headquarters for imprisoning Americans.Obama wants to confiscate your IRA: Conservatives sent out a message ad claiming that Obama wants to seize your retirement account by force.Obama caused the BP oil spill: Conspiracy-minded radio host Alex Jones promoted the theory that the Deepwater Horizon spill was all part of the administration's plans of oil nationalization and global government.Obama was behind the Aurora massacre: In July, Gun Owners of America blasted out a press release claiming that the mass murder at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, was suspiciously timed. "Someone in Washington" was probably behind it, paving the way for Obama-led firearm confiscation and "government genocide."Obama personally caused Hurricane Sandy: It wasn’t global warming that made Sandy so intense; it was Barack. Alex Jones' site reported the president engineered the storm using a Pentagon weather modification project. The mayhem caused by the hurricane would afford Obama the opportunity to score points by briskly managing disaster relief a week before the election. =Obama had Andrew Breitbart killed: In March 2012, conservative media impresario Andrew Breitbart died of heart failure. Less than a month prior to his death, he had announced that he had uncovered footage of Obama's formative years as a radical. So obviously, Obama had him offed. (The tapes were later revealed to contain things like a young Obama hugging a black college professors.) Related: People—like a Rod Blagojevich fundraiser and an Obama impersonator—died between 2008 and 2012. Obama was in office between 2008 and 2012…coincidence?!?! http://www.nachumlist.com/deadpo...Obama spiked the jobs report: "Jobs truthers" (like former GE CEO Jack Welch and Florida tea party congressman Allen West) accused the Obama administration of cooking the September unemployment numbers to manufacture a rosier picture of the economy and boost the president's chances of reelection.Obama faked bin Laden's death: Since no photographs of Osama bin Laden's corpse were produced, the Al Qaeda leader must still be out there. Fox News' Steve Doocy and Andrew Napolitano entertained the idea that Operation Neptune Spear was merely a ploy to revive Obama's sagging approval ratings.Obama's plan to fake an assassination attempt: A false-flag operation would create urban tumult and give Obama the pretext to declare martial law, thus suspending democracy, postponing the 2012 election, and prolonging his stay in office. The theory was flagged by Tenn. State Rep. Kelly Keisling, among others, after circulating online. Page on The TennesseanObama’s death squads targets gun rights activists: The tea party, with the help of libertarian websites, has uncovered this one. They were tipped off by Russian security forces.Obama's planning a third term: The dust from the 2012 election had barely cleared when this one popped up.Obama the brainwashing hypnotist: As a master of neurolinguistic programming, Obama persuaded Americans to vote for him via subliminal messages. Related: Rush Limbaugh pondered if hypnosis was the reason that so many Jewish voters were in the bag for Obama.Obama's teleprompter: Obama's eloquence is a myth! The 44th president is incapable of speaking in public without his teleprompter.Obama had a ghostwriter for everything: Jack Cashill over at WND had a hot scoop on how Obama's love letters to his college girlfriend were ghostwritten.Obama's anti-Semitic poetry: However, according to the American Thinker, Obama's ghostwriters did not write his youthful poem "Underground," which compares Jews to fig-eating underwater apes and echoes Koranic verse.Obama's exiled lover: Obama was supposedly fooling around with an attractive young staffer from his 2004 Senate campaign. Michelle Obama had the temptress packed off to the Caribbean before the '08 campaign.Obama is gay: Which explains why he joined Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church. (Via Corsi, of course)Obama lowered age of consent to 13: This one died right out of the starting gate since only the states can pass laws governing sexual activity.Obama's crack cocaine/gay sex/murder orgy cover-up:In 2008, a small-time conman named Larry Sinclair and his kilt-wearing lawyer held a press conference to tell the world of the future president's murderous, drug-and-sodomy-fueled crimes.Obama's campaigns were funded by drug money: During an October conference call organized to oppose pot legalization, a writer from Lyndon LaRouche's magazine asked about "reports [that both Obama's] 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns have been financed in part by laundered drug money."Obama is the Antichrist: Related: If you play his 2008 Democratic nomination acceptance speech backwards, you can hear him instruct listeners to do Satan's bidding.Obama is a lizard overlord: According to codes hidden in Biblical verse, Obama is a reptilian humanoid. This idea has found its way on to some right-wing radio shows, and two Daily Callerreporters recently published a (satirical?) e-book on the topic titled, The Lizard King: The Shocking Inside Account of Obama's True Intergalactic Ambitions by an Anonymous White House Staffer.Obama's adventures on Mars: As a teen, Obama participated in a CIA initiative to teleport to Mars using a top-secret "jump room." Self-described time travelers William Stillings and Andrew Basiago claim to have met the future POTUS at American space bases on the Red Planet. In early 2012, a spokesman for the National Security Council actually acknowledged these claims, and issued a fairly convincing denial.Obamacare can withhold care from those un-“worthy of medical care”: Sarah Palin informed us Obamacare will have “death panels” who can decided to withhold care from those unworthy of medical care such as Palin’s elderly parents or children with Down syndrome. As a result a worthy section of the bill to provide voluntary counseling to Medicare patients about living wills, advance directives, and end-of-life care options was removed from the bill. "Death panel" was named as PoliticFact“Lie of the Year", one of FactCheck’s "whoppers", and the most outrageous new term by the American Dialect Society.In 2014 Tea Party Nation emailed members the following. These guys love legalese:The time has come to DEMAND the IMMEDIATE ARREST and PROSECUTION of one BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA upon his willful and transgression of 18 U.S. Code § 2339A.I hereby call on all members of the house and the senate to begin impeachment proceeding against Barack Hussein Obama and for Andrew B. “Drew” Willison, the current Senate Seargent [sic] at Arms to issue and execute an arrest warrant, taking the president, Barack Hussein Obama into custody.Barack Hussein Obama is in direct violation of 18 U.S. Code § 2339A – Providing material support to terrorists as a result of the removal of five Taliban GITMO detained terrorists and the transfer OF them to the government of Qatar where they, according to the specified arrangement negotiated BY Obama that they only be keep from traveling for a period of one year. IMPEACH AND ARREST THE TYRANT KING OBAMA.BENGHAZI ON THE BRAINLong before she "let Benghazi happen", Hillary Clinton was the center of a swirl of inventive rumors about sex, drugs,and murder.Rumor: Then-Secretary of State Clinton faked the flu and a concussion in December 2012 to avoid testifying to Congress about Benghazi.Rumormongers: 2016 presidential dark horse John Bolton and Fox News contributor Monica CrowleyRumor: As if a phony head injury wasn't bad enough Hillary faked a blood clot, an even more serious medical condition, to further delay her Benghazi testimony.Rumormonger: Glenn Beck, who added that "if she really had some weird thing in the hospital, then it should prohibit her from ever becoming president."Rumor: The clot was real, and Hillary suffered lingering brain damage that could render her unfit for office.Rumormonger: Fox News analyst Karl Rove, who backtracked the next day.THE CLINTON BODY COUNTRumor: Various theories hold that former Clinton White House chief of staff Vince Foster didn't commit suicide in Virginia's Fort Marcy Park. One posits that he was killed because he was having an affair with Hillary Clinton.Rumormongers: Former Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) once shot a watermelon (or a pumpkin it's unclear) to prove that Foster was shot by someone else. Accuracy in Media founder Reed Irvine took out an ad in the New York Times to note that the FBI had failed to investigate "semen in Foster's shorts, blond hair on his T-shirt and trousers and multicolored carpet fibers on all his clothing." (Bonus: Anne Coulter once joked,"If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide.")Rumor: Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others were killed in a plane crash orchestrated by the Clintons to prevent him from spilling the beans to special investigators about selling seats on trade missions.Rumormonger: The Clinton Body Count, a website linking the first family to more than 90 deaths.WHITEWATER WHITEWASHRumor: After agreeing to cooperate with special investigator Ken Starr, Whitewater partner James McDougal died in prison allegedly at the hands of Clinton henchmen. "Chalk up another body to Clinton,'' as one Rush Limbaugh caller put an alternative theory: McDougal faked his death to avoid ratting out his benefactors.Rumormonger: The Clinton Body CountKITTYCIDERumor: Former Clinton aide Kathleen Willey alleged that after her cat went missing, a suspicious-looking jogger told her to watch what she said. Then her new cat turned up dead.Rumormonger: Willey, in the the 2007 pseudo-documentary Hillary:Hillary: The MovieThe Supreme Court reviews Hillary: The Movie.(which triggered the Citizens United Supreme Court decision).THE SEX STUFFGAY UNTIL INAUGURATIONRumor: After majoring in lesbianism at Wellesley, Hillary entered into a sham marriage with Bill Clinton to cover up the truth. At one point, a former classmate moved to Little Rock to continue an affair with Hillary.Rumormonger: Edward Klein, author of The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become PresidentBISEXUAL AFTER INAUGURATIONRumor: Bill confided that his wife was a bisexual who, as she put it, "had eaten more pussy than he had."Rumormonger: Former Clinton mistress Flowers, in a 2013 interview with the Daily MailWEBB OF LIESRumor: Associate attorney general Webb Hubbell was really Chelsea's father. (And Vince Foster was possibly killed because he knew.)Rumormonger: This guy on the Internet who keeps emailing me and every other DC journalist.BERMUDA SHORTSRumor: Forget Webb Hubbell. Chelsea was conceived when Bill forced himself on Hillary during a vacation in Bermuda.Rumormonger: Klein, keeping it classy.TROOPERGATERumor: Hillary looked the other way when then-Gov. Bill Clinton used Arkansas state troopers to set up sexual liaisons with dozens maybe hundreds of women.Rumormonger: Former right-wing operative-turned-Media Matters honcho David Brock, who later wrote in his book, Blinded by the Right, that "none of the trooper allegations that could be independently checked turned out to be true."BILL'S BLACK LOVE CHILDRumor: Bill fathered a son after after luring a prostitute into a cocaine-fueled orgy. Hillary dutifully covered it up.Rumormongers: Little Rock businessman Robert McIntosh circulated a flier noting the resemblance between 13-year-old Danny Williams and a young William Jefferson Blythe during the 1992 campaign. A 1999 Drudge Report exclusive featured Williams' mother's on-tape confession. "What becomes immediately obvious to the viewer watching the videotaped confession is that this is clearly not gossip, rumor, or anonymous charges being maliciously directed at a politician," wrote Drudge, before learning three days later that the child was not Clinton's.COME ALL YE FAITHFULRumor: As first lady, Hillary decorated the White House Christmas tree with condoms, cockrings, and lords-a-leapin' with erect penises.Rumormongers: Disgruntled former FBI agent Gary Aldrich, in his 1996 tell-all, Unlimited Access; and Texas activist "Doc Marquis," who seized on Aldrich's claims as"proof positive that Hillary Clinton is a power, practicing witch."Well, maybe you have to look on the other sideSEXUAL PAGANRumor: No, it's not the name of my new metal band it's Hillary Clinton's orientation.Rumormonger: Southern Evangelical Seminary president Richard Land, who leveled the charge in response to the secretary of state's advocacy for gay rights in Africa.THE DRUG STUFFPOWDER HUNGRYRumor: When Bill was governor, the Clintons covered up a multimillion-dollar cocaine smuggling ring based in Mena, Arkansas.Rumormonger: The Clinton Chronicles (below), a 1994 pseudo-documentary distributed by the Reverend Jerry Falwell.BOYS ON THE TRACKSRumor: Seventeen-year-olds Kevin Ives and Don Henry weren't hit by a train after passing out on an Arkansas railroad track; they were brutally murdered after witnessing a Clinton-assisted drug drop.Rumormongers: Former Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Calif.) and The Clinton ChroniclesASSORTED POWER MADNESSFOUR MARTINI PUNCHRumor: Reporter LJ Davis didn't, as he claimed, pass out on his floor after drinking one too many martinis he was assaulted in his Arkansas hotel room in 1994 by Clinton goons and robbed of four "significant" pages from his notebook. His crime: Asking too many questions about Clinton's work at a Little Rock law firm.Rumormongers: The Wall Street Journal editorial page, which cited the incident as evidence that Arkansas is a "congenitally violent place," and Rush Limbaugh, who told his, "journalists and others working on or involved in Whitewatergate have been mysteriously beaten and harassed in Little Rock; some have died."PC POLICERumor: As first lady, Clinton formed her own clandestine police force. Agents embedded in the FBI, the CIA, and the IRS harassed and eliminated critics.Rumormongers: Richard Poe, author of Hillary's Secret War, and American Evita author Christopher AndersenCON AIRRumor: Hillary purged the White House Travel Office in order to set up a system of kickbacks for an Arkansas airline helmed by a childhood friend of Bill's.Rumormongers: Brock and current Virginia congressional candidate Barbara ComstockRED, NOT BLUERumor: A "meticulously documented" report exposed the Clintons' links to a Marxist terrorist plot to take over the country, inspired by the Italian communist and grad-student favorite Antonio Gramsci. Exhibit A: Hillary's failed health care reform plan.Rumormonger: WorldNetDaily columnist Samuel BlumenfeldFILEGATERumor: Classified FBI files were requested and misused by first lady Hillary Clinton to target enemies of the administration. White House Office of Personnel Security Craig Livingstone took the fall when Republican investigators caught wind.Rumormonger: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who demanded FBI files be swiped for the first lady's fingerprintsBRAZILIAN WHACKSRumor: The Clintons forced former Hillary donor Peter Paul to spend two years in a Brazilian prison including two months in a cellblock known as the "Corridor of Death" after he filed a lawsuit against the couple claiming they knew about his illegal campaign finance dealings.Rumormonger: Paul, in the 2007 pseudo-documentary Hillary UncensoredBLACK HELICOPTERSRumor: Team Hillary used helicopters to surveil the Southampton home of 2006 Republican Senate challenger and current Fox News contributor K.T. McFarland.Rumormonger: McFarland, at a campaign event on Long IslandRUSH TO JUDGMENTRumor: Rush Limbaugh's 2006 drug bust for painkillers possession was a set-up by the Clinton machine.Rumormonger: Poe againTHE MUSLIM STUFFMUSLIM SISTERHOODRumor: Clinton and top aide/alleged lover Huma Abedin (wife of ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)) are in cahoots with the ladies' auxiliary of the Muslim Brotherhood. Which explains why Clinton has been secretly pushing us to spread Sharia law in America.Rumormongers: "Huma's mom is best friends with the new so-called first lady of Egypt, who is also a member of the Sisterhood," explained Rush Limbaugh. "Folks, it's Peyton place it's too much to keep up with. "Rep. Michele Bachmann's allegations of collaboration between Clinton and the Brotherhood was cited by protesters in the streets of Cairo.MULLAH MOOLAHRumor: Clinton's Islam fascist sympathies were secured with a bribe from Iran.Rumormonger: Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman, who conscientiously adds, "I cannot prove it at this time."BAN ON CHURCHESRumor: Clinton was working with Islamists to shut down Christian houses of worship in the United States before she left office in 2013.Rumormonger: Conservative speaker and self-described "former terrorist" Kamal SaleemJUST PLAIN BIZARRECOLD-BLOODEDRumor: Like most of the Washington elite, Hillary is in fact a blood-drinking extraterrestrial lizard in disguise.Rumormonger: "Reptoid hypothesis" creator David IckeEVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATI'EDRumor: Wake up, sheeple. The Clintons belong to an 18th-century secret society that controls global governance and finance.Rumormongers: Lots of crazy people on YouTubeCONTRA DANCINGRumor: In the 1970s, Hillary worked at a Little Rock law firm that helped funnel weapons to the Contras.Rumormonger: The late Nation columnist Alexander CockburnBLOOD MONEYRumor: The Clintons consented to the harvesting and selling of HIV- and hepatitis C-positive blood from prison inmates to China in the 1980s.Rumormongers: Klein and WorldNetDaily conspiracy guru Joseph FarahSTARR CROSSEDRumor: Why did the Clintons enjoy impunity for their myriad crimes? Easy: Ken Starr, the man tasked with investigating them, was a secret Clinton crony.Rumormonger: Poe againGET BEHIND ME, THETANRumor: Why did the did the movie version of Primary Colors, in which John Travolta plays a thinly-veiled Bill Clinton, go so easy on the first couple? Maybe because President Clinton pressured the German government to extend religious protections to the Church of Scientology.Rumormonger: The New York Post reported that Sen. Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.) demanded an investigation into the matter; Faircloth denied thisIT'S A TAX!Rumor: As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was pushing a secret United Nations takeover of the Internet, to be paid for by a secret tax on American billionaires.Rumormonger: Former Clinton aide Dick MorrisGOO GOO FOR GAGAClinton's State Department betrayed its true function as an "agent for Lady Gaga" when it helped the "Bad Romance" singer secure a gig at a gay pride event in Italy.Rumormonger: Mission: America founder Linda HarveyHERE WE GO AGAINFACE THE NATIONRumor: Clinton got a face-lift after leaving the State Department to "glam up" for 2016.Rumormonger: Fox and Friends' Steve Doocy, who tweeted afterwards that he was referring only to Clinton's websiteHEY SOLE SISTERRumor: Clinton hired a mentally ill woman to throw a sneaker at her while giving a speech to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries in Las Vegas in April.Rumormongers: Limbaugh and former Republican presidential front runner Herman CainHILL'S ANGELSRumor: Hillary is a tool of the Dark Lord Lucifer sent to oppose Jesus Christ in the Last Days.Rumormonger: Montana Republican congressional candidate Ryan Zinke, who called Clinton the "anti-Christ" at a January campaign event.IT TAKES A CHILDRumor: Chelsea Clinton became pregnant at the behest of her parents, who believe that the former secretary of state will be viewed more favorably if she has grandkids.Rumormongers: Fox News host Howie Kurtz, the Washington Free Beacon's Michael Goldfarb, and the New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin.VANITY PRESSRumor: The Clintons arranged for Vanity Fair to publish Monica Lewinsky's recent essay two-and-a-half years before the next presidential election, so it would be forgotten by 2016.Rumormonger: Prolific children's author Lynne Cheney, who asked Bill O'Reilly, "Would Vanity Fair publish anything about Monica Lewinsky that Hillary Clinton wouldn't want in Vanity Fair?" (Yes.)The definitive guide to every Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory…HILLARY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED A WOMANA sad eyed woman named Prissy Holly claims Hillary groped her.Rumormonger: LiveLeak.com - Redefining the Media