I've been identified

as a conservative blogger! Apparently just because I wrote something critical about CBS during Rathergate, or have been criticizing Kerry of late. Either that, or these people are just going through all even remotely political blogs at blogger/blogspot and sending e-mails to their owners. Here's the text of the e-mail I just received, in its entirety:

RatherGate proved that bloggers are the best fact checkers. That is why we are writing to a few bloggers asking for help.

Yes Bush Can has collected several documents that are clearly suspect. But we need your help to prove they are fake: http://www.yesbushcan.com/falsedocs.shtml

Let's spring to action before these documents needlessly tarnish the reputation of our Commander and Chief. You know the drill: analyze the handwriting, search for factual errors, and post your discoveries.

And keep us posted by sending email to FakeDocs@yesbushcan.com.

Thanks in advance for your help.

YesBushCan

I'm not really sure what to make of this, but my first inclination is to be wary. "Commander and Chief"? Come on.

This just in: Aha! I guess I was right to be wary. This whole thing is apparently a prank, according to this story I found when doing a Google search. These guys are pretending that they are conservative activists and trying to see to what kind of absurd extremes they can get conservatives to go.

If you take a look at this false documents webpage they ask you to go to, it seems hard to believe that anyone would buy this "obviously Bush would never do this, obviously the documents are fake" rhetoric enough to actually go looking for evidence to support their hypothesis. But then again, we've seen this sort of extreme suspension of disbelief time and again from some liberals regarding the Swift Boat Veterans' allegations and the memogate controversy. Why not from their conservative counterparts? There are as many lunatics on the fringe on the right as there are on the left.