Republicans Get Their Stoopid On
Part One: Many of you probably heard about the attempted terrorist attack on an airplane landing in Detroit, but what you might not have heard about was Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra’s recent inanity. (h/t Eschaton)
“It’s not surprising,” U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Holland Republican, said of the alleged terrorist attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight in Detroit. … “People have got to start connecting the dots here and maybe this is the thing that will connect the dots for the Obama administration,” Hoekstra said.
If Hoekstra could connect the dots using crayons, I’d be very surprised. More on Hoekstra’s “ignorant, politicized conclusions” from Matthew Yglesias.
Part Two: Some of you might remember when I posted this video from the Daily Show about the fake outrage over the White House Christmas tree ornaments. Now mind you this was fake — there was no outrage, it was The Daily Show being The Daily Show. Too bad no one let the Big Government blog know about it when they got in a tizzy. Media Matters writes:
A random White House Christmas tree ornament, of unknown origin, featured a world famous image of Mao as interpreted by Andy Warhol. But because Breitbart and his bloggers are so clueless about pop culture and art (they seem to have no idea what Warhol’s “Mao” is), they wrote up a blog post in which they proudly advertised their ignorance. Again.
Behold “conservative journalism.”
A few years ago a new saying was born, “Life imitates The Simpsons.” Maybe we should start a new saying, “Teabaggers imitate The Daily Show.”
Tags: Republican Crazy
It’s really a shame there isn’t some sort of minimum intelligence test the rethugs and teabaggers have to pass in order to vote. Many of them would be disqualified because they’re just plain imbeciles.
I’m curious — Bush waited 10 minutes to leave a school on 9/11 and Democrats went apeshit. Obama aides waited 3 hours to even inform him of the 12/25 terrorist incident and Democrats are silent. Explain to me again which president is unserious about terrorism?
Um, the plane landed safely, the terrorist was in custody, and nobody was hurt (except the terrorist). Do you see the difference? I guess not. What was Obama supposed to do, order the guy tortured?
For RwR to consider Obama “serious” about terrorism, he’ll have to turn some incident into a pretext for invading a totally unrelated and mostly defenseless country, then botch the occupation beyond comprehension.
Comment by MJ on 27 December 2009 at 12:17 pm:
It’s really a shame there isn’t some sort of minimum intelligence test the rethugs and teabaggers have to pass in order to vote. Many of them would be disqualified because they’re just plain imbeciles.
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Wasn’t that the policy of Democrats to stop voting by their opponents from the end of Reconstruction until the passage of the Voting Rights Act?