On its face, accusing Sarah Palin of being a Nazi collaborator is absurd. But then, we live in absurd times, when people can say absurd things and get away with it.

First, there's this:

Since Sarah Palin took the national stage in 2008, neocon Randy Scheunemann has been at her side as an apparent confidant and foreign policy adviser, getting $30,000 in fees from her as recently as June 30, 2010. But at the same time, Justin Elliott reports at Salon, Scheunemann's firm Orion Strategies was taking money to lobby the U.S. government from conservative boogeyman George Soros' Open Society Policy Center.

So one of Sarah Palin's paid advisers also works for George Soros. A little strange? Sure. But let's continue:

Today on his Fox News program, Glenn Beck again falsely accused Jewish philanthropist George Soros of being a Holocaust collaborator. Beck used this false attack to buttress his Soros conspiracies, suggesting that "the lesson he learned" from his supposed actions are what informs the shadowy tactics he is supposedly using to destroy the U.S. currency and government[.]

It doesn't really matter why Glenn Beck thinks George Soros collaborated with Nazis. It's bullshit -- like just about everything that comes out of Beck's mouth. But, since Beck's bullshit is gospel truth to the nuttiest nuts on the right, we'll just accept for a moment that yeah, sure, Soros, at the age of 13, was collaborating with the Nazis.

So let's do some quick math here. Soros, the Nazi collaborator, gives money to the firm Orion Strategies, which is headed by Randy Scheunemann, who is on Sarah Palin's payroll. Now we apply the Palin Pallin' Around Doctrine, and here's where it gets a little tricky. Normally, the Doctrine only applies to liberals and Democrats. For example, if Barack Obama was once in the same room with someone who decades ago committed acts of terrorism, Obama pals around with terrorists and is quite likely himself a terrorist.

However, if a Republican -- say, soon-to-be Speaker of the House John Boehner -- campaigns for a Nazi impersonator, this does not mean that Boehner is a Nazi impersonator, or that he pals around with Nazi impersonators. It simply means he's "rallying Republican volunteers."

While Mr. Scheunemann is technically not a liberal, it's easy to say he is for the sake of argument, since his firm did, after all, take money from the most liberaliest liberal in the world, George "Big Fat Liberal" Soros.

So then, to complete our equation: Nazi collaborator Soros gave money to Scheunemann + Scheunemann advises Sarah Palin = Sarah Palin is a Nazi collaborator.

I think I've got that right, but someone may want to check my math.