On the March 3 edition of Fox Business' Follow the Money, Eric Bolling devoted a segment -- complete with lame bobblehead-esque animation -- to the idea that President Obama is somehow linked to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi through a series of guilt-by-association connections, like being pictured together with Louis Farrakhan on the cover of a magazine with 17 other people.

An anti-Obama attack this loony and desperate could only come from one place: WorldNetDaily. As we noted when Fox Nation promoted this same claim, it did indeed originate with WND's Aaron Klein, who went even further by suggesting that Obama was being “cautious in his criticism” of Gadhafi because of these supposed links. Of course, Klein didn't mention that the caution in Obama's initial statements about the uprising in Libya was intended to ensure the safety of thousands of Americans who were still there.

The lame animation wasn't enough for Bolling -- he invited Klein on the show to discuss it further. Klein quickly got lost in ranting about Jeremiah Wright and his “anti-white, anti-American, Nation of Islam-linked ideology,” and Bolling had to prompt him to talk about Libya. Needless to say, Klein offered up no substantive evidence beyond his convoluted guilt-by-association links.

As part of his kitchen-sink attack, Klein threw out another claim: that Obama, while he was a state senator in the mid-1990s, had employees who belonged to Farrakhan's Nation of Islam. But Klein's 2008 WND article on the incident shows that his main source was “a former key Obama insider ... who spoke on condition of anonymity” and who also peddled the story to far-right blogger Debbie Schlussel.

An anonymous “insider” who was pushing his story to far-right bloggers and websites? Not exactly the most reliable sourcing.

The only attempt in the segment to contradict Bolling's enthusiastic embrace of Klein's conspiracy theory came from Democratic strategist Regina Calcaterra, who said of Klein: “He's been spending the past few years focusing on President Obama, trying to make a disingenuous connection like he is, especially saying that because Obama walked in the Million Man March that there's a connection between him and Gadhafi via Farrakhan. ... And he denounced Farrakhan on national TV.” But Bolling quickly moved to interrupt and talk over her.

Klein has been making increasingly frequent appearances on Fox Business lately, despite his history of desperate smears and fraudulent reporting.