The Dumbest E-Mail Ever?

I got what may be one of the dumbest e-mails ever the other day. It came to my work address, from someone I've only met a couple of times, but someone I deal with a lot in e-mail; it was kind of a shock, because I wouldn't have expected something like this from that person.
Like a lot of these things, it was undoubtedly forwarded through a lot of people before it reached my inbox. And in fact, the person who sent it to me also sent it to at least 20 other people.
Here's the text of the e-mail, and the pictures:

An alarming observation … The United States flag is no more.  Look carefully.

For a long time, we have noticed that the decor at the White House has changed since BHO moved in.

The Oval Office is now stripped of the traditional red, white, and blue, and replaced with middle eastern wallpaper, drapes, and decor.

The hallway that he walks out of to talk to the press now has middle eastern chairs, drapes, etc. And the thing that has bothered me the most is the bright yellow drape behind him every time he speaks from the White House. It has Arabic symbols on it and has been there from the beginning.

Today I received this and it clearly shows what I have been noticing. That bright yellow curtain is highly visible, but as you scroll down, you will see what is predominantly absent.  Also, as you look at the pictures of other presidents speaking from the same spot, look at the traditional 'American' background and decor as opposed to the new decor.  Trust me when I say that this is intentional.  It should alarm every American.

What is missing at Barack Hussein Obama's press conference?

No it is not the teleprompters. See the other president's pictures for a clue.

Above are the pictures that came along with the e-mail. As you can see, every recent previous president (even that commie philandering liar, Bill Clinton) spoke with American flags behind him.
Where to start in discussing the logical fallacies, the outright falsehoods and the ridiculous innuendos?
First, of course, the Obama picture wasn't taken in the oval office; none of them were. Presidents don't have press conferences in the oval office. Or even speeches, except on rare occasions, and then they're sitting at the desk, not standing at a podium.
Second, anyone can go to Google Images and enter "Obama speech" and come up with millions of pictures of Obama speaking in front of flags; same for all of the other presidents shown.
And "Middle Eastern" decor? Really? 
It's all part of a meme being pushed by some who want to make people think that Obama is not an American like "the rest of us." The "birthers" don't want to concede anything. We went through the same thing a couple of years ago with flag pins ... and now every candidate has to wear a flag pin, or risk having some moron ask, "What, don't you love America?"
I can remember another mass-forward e-mail, from a different colleague (yeah, maybe I need different colleagues), that used a bunch of carefully selected pictures to try to convince me that Obama is Muslim. The last picture in that series was a shot of one of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center on 9/11 — a warning, I guess of what happens to us when we elect un-American, Muslim presidents.