>RE: We like to think we're smarter than all those Obama is a...
>...secret Kenyan Muslim folks.
>
>We ain't.
>
>We might be more virtuous or whatever, but we're still dumb
>ass people prone to cognitive dissonance and irrational bias.

... gullible for the right reasons than gullible and stupid for the wrong deplorable reasons.

That said, I don't really think these are the same things anyway. The Obama conspiracy theory you reference had absolutely no basis in fact from the beginning, no starting point. At least we have strong video evidence (on top of the circumstantial "who she work for" evidence, on top of the "America's been blatantly racist for literally hundreds of years" evidence, etc.) to back up our "crazy."