Apparently, they do. Apparently, Breitbart's team at Big Government is under the impression that serious, independent journalists use the site as a clearinghouse for information and fact-checking.

Question: Do Big Government bloggers also believe unicorns live over the rainbow?

Seriously, though, this is just nuts. It's one thing for Breitbart's team to devote so many hours each day to typing up whatever loony conspiracy theories and hateful attacks pop into their collective brains. And trust me, the passion they display for making stuff up, and doing it around the clock, is really quite amazing. I'm hard-pressed to think of other sites that create as much patently false content online as do the bloggers at Breitbart's site.

So, yes, I get that. I get that the site is a misinformation hub for Obama haters who require a nearly hourly confirmation of the president's evil status. But this idea that actual reporters read the Breitbart dreck and use it as a research site? Well, that's quite comical.

But at least two Breitbart bloggers are under that delusional impression. The two are Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King, who continue with their completely creepy, borderline stalking, obsession with Jodie Evans, the co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink. Oh, I'm sorry, she's co-founder of the “terrorist support group Code Pink,” as Taylor and King put it. So, no, subtlety is not their thing. But hate does rate high on their priority list.

Anyway, the Breitbart duo posts a long screed (attacking Media Matters) about how Evans is actually a central Obama administration figure with very close ties to the president. Or something. The proof? Simple. Evans contributed money to the Obama campaign during the 2008 election.

Well, that settles that.

But here are the truly telling passages, in which Taylor and Shea pretend they're writing for journalists who use Big Government as a research site:

For the benefit of reporters who have been misled by Media Matters, here are some details of Obama's ties to Jodie Evans:

And:

Reporters, don't let Media Matters fool you into not investigating why the president of the United States works with someone with this current history.

And

Attention reporters: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink, its co-founder Jodie Evans and President Obama

I hate to break it to them, but unless the bloggers are referring to “reporters” from The American Spectator or The Weekly Standard, I don't think there are any real journalists who take Big Government's smear tangents seriously.