Worst. Conspiracy Theory. Ever.

There have been a wide range of conspiracy theories thrown around about President Obama, ranging from the potentially dangerous (the president is a dictatorial Muslim usurper) to the just plain silly (the president has it in for Republican Chrysler dealers).

But this one really takes the, er, cake.

You may recall that this past spring, First Lady Michelle Obama set up an organic garden on the White House grounds and invited kids from all over to come help grow stuff. On Tuesday, she held a party at which kids harvested and ate the fruits (as it were) of their labor, including peas and lettuce.

Web gadfly Matt Drudge (a reliable conduit for wacko right-wing accusations making their way into the mainstream media) thought the timing - two months from planting to harvest - was a tad suspicious, and said so on his website:

Once you get past that he got the dates wrong (March 20 was when ground was broken, planting actually happened on April 9) his sneering comment on "Michelle's miracle grow" speaks volumes. He's actually saying, "She cheated! It can't be organic! Those veggies can't be real!"

Well, putting aside the simple fact that swapping store-bought vegetables for home-grown ones is like something out of a movie farce (in real life, Jim Jones did just that in Guyana to try and hook potential Peoples Temple members back in the 1970s) this nonsense was quickly shot down by people who have experience with actual, you know, gardening.

Apparently deluged with dark mutterings from readers, Susan Reimer put it succinctly on the Baltimore Sun's website:

The snap peas and the greens were ready to harvest - but that's no surprise for Washington, D.C., and a spring as rainy as ours has been. And the soil was amended with compost before it was planted. When I did that in a new bed I installed, the plants went crazy. The kale, chard and lettuces look exactly as they do at the Farmers' Market in Annapolis that I visit each Saturday. But there are no cukes yet, no peppers, mostly tomato flowers, and one tiny eggplant. The sweet potatoes and okra are just seedlings.

So we now have a winner for the Stupidest Obama Conspiracy Theory Ever!

Until the next one, that is.