Vast Right-Wing Catholic Conspiracy

How’s this for leading, buzz-wordy, rhetoric-charged, unencumbered-by-facts reportage?

In anticipation of Obama’s address and his being awarded an honorary degree from Notre Dame, a number of right-wing groups, including Catholic anti-abortion and anti-stem cell research groups, are ratcheting up tensions in South Bend, according to our sources.

What is worrying to some federal law enforcement and emergency preparedness officials is the violent groups that will be present both within South Bend and on the campus of Notre Dame during the president’s address to graduating students. And these groups are being egged on by well-financed conservative groups, including the Cardinal Newman Society and Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center. However, the real fear of federal security agencies is the rhetoric being voiced by professional troublemaker Randall Terry and perennial political candidate Alan Keyes. Terry and Keyes are both right-wing Catholics.

The piece goes on to question President Obama’s safety because of Mary Ann Glendon’s refusal to accept the Laetare Medal, and the fact that the governor of Illinois is a Republican. (It really does — read it!)

I guess it’s comforting to know that conservatives don’t have a monopoly on quack conspiracy theories.

Violent anti-Obama groups arriving in South Bend.