This is Either Proof of a) the Singularity, b) Peak Wingnut or c) Both.

But we can all agree, I think, that this represents a low point of some kind?

When future historians wonder why a certain segment of the American public so eagerly believed that, say, Saddam Hussein possessed nuclear weapons or that Terri Schiavo could sing and dance, I do hope they remember this thread.

In retrospect, it all makes a lot of scary sense.