What’s also bizarre about the sudden rationalization of trutherism on the left, is that just a month ago liberal bloggers were loudly broadcasting the results of a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll that found 28 percent of Republicans believed in birtherism. They were loudly broadcasting this poll as a way of delegitimizing the entire GOP; the fact they are now just over a month later citing the fact that 35 percent of Dems believed in trutherism to defend Van Jones seems hypocritical in the extreme. In fact, here’s an article hosted on Jane Hamsher’s own Firedoglake website titled “The Republican Party is the Birther Party, and it’s dragging them down.”