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Sat 08 Aug 2009Conspiracy theorists seek order in a terrifying world
THIS OBAMA birther nonsense is, in one sense at least, a little like the career of Lady Gaga. Let me explain, writes DONALD CLARKE
At some point in 2008, her ladyship, a self-important singer from New York city, stepped off a rhinestone-encrusted airship and began bellowing tinny electropop into the world’s collective earhole. Most sensible people, sure in the knowledge that nobody was going to tolerate this class of nonsense for long, retired to their storm shelter and waited for Cyclone Gaga to blow itself out. Yet she’s still here. Look, there she is scowling like a dyspeptic turtle on that magazine cover.
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