Since they never tire of playing the victim, concocting anti-government conspiracy theories, or projecting their Nixon-era guilt, this conservative media trend actually makes sense: If you cross the White House, you will be audited!

Proof? Zero.

But that doesn't stop National Review Online from raising the dark specter of an unfolding/imaginary, anti-business intimidation campaign. Writing about yesterday's SCOTUS ruling to allow corporations to more directly finance campaign advertising, Steve Hoersting wrote:

For now, there is little doubt that the Citizens United ruling will free up many more resources for politics in coming election cycles. We can expect existing unions to turn on the spigots even more openly, and for new entities to crop up to accept corporate money.

The only real question is whether corporations brave enough to take advantage of the opinion, and go against the Democrats, will risk audits or the nationalization of their businesses.

So based on nothing more that than a fervent, conspiracy-minded imagination, NRO warns businesses that they'll be audited --that the Obama administration will illegally use the IRS --if corporations spend money to criticize Democrats.

And of course, if there's a hollow anti-Obama conspiracy to push, count Glenn Beck in: