Kyle Bell

Add this to the growing number of crazy right wing conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama. The mayor of a Memphis suburb not only believes that our president is a Muslim, but that he recently gave his Afghanistan troop surge speech in order to – you guessed it – prevent ABC from airing A Charlie Brown Christmas.

“We sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there, what a load… try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose,” Mayor Russell Wiseman of Arlington, Tennessee wrote on his Facebook page. It was picked up by CBS affiliate WREG.