Welcome to your Wednesday open thread. I’m still traveling, so don’t be surprised if I’m not around. I’ve been busy being stuffed full of Southern cooking and rescuing Free Radical from “fun uncle” duty.
Christine O’Donnell may have trouble winning over the Delaware electorate, but she’s been racking up awards. So far she’s won the El Somnambulo MVP award, the most expensive campaign in Delaware history and was #1 and #9 on the most memorable quotes list. Now she’s been nominated for TPM’s Golden Dukes Award.
For Meritorious Achievement in The Crazy:
Christine O’Donnell: As TPM Reader DC put it: “A GOP candidate, witchcraft, a Satanic altar, masturbation. This was the moment when the natural world and South Park switched places.” And that’s not even to mention mice with human brains or whether the separation of church and state was really part of the constitution or not.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX): As TPM Reader FM said, “Two words: ‘terror babies.'”There’s also “tea party” and “art director” and “government shutdown.”
Tim Profitt, Head Stomper And Rand Paul Volunteer: He came, he saw, he stomped the head of a MoveOn protester, he demanded an apology from the woman he stomped and claimed he was set up. As TPM Reader EO said, “his actions were stone.cold.f——.crazy!”
Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO): In Tancredo’s world, Obama’s a bigger threat to America than al Qaeda and should be shipped back to Kenya. Granted, he’s been crazy for years, but TPM Reader DB thought his gubernatorial run highlighted one thing we’ve missed: “How can a person run for governor, claiming he can create jobs and shrink government if he’s never had private sector job?”
Ginny Thomas: Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas whose public affiliation with conservative advocacy groups gave people pause this year, made observers’ jaws drop after she called Anita Hill, who in 1991 accused now-Justice Thomas of sexual harassment, at an odd hour and requested an apology from her. TPM Reader DS added, “Ginny’s call clearly planted a turd in the punchbowl, embarrassing her husband even more.”
This looks like a tough category but I think Christine has a real shot. I’m on Team Christine for this one.
Why Fox, why? Fox couldn’t find enough dishonest hacks to talk down the START Treaty so they actually turned to Hollywood elite Jon Voight. For real. Media Matters documents the atrocities.
If you just finished the segment and currently find yourself wishing for those precious minutes of your life back, rest assured that we know how you feel. Being that there’s a smorgasbord of nonsense in there to choose from, we’ll just cover a few greatest hits.
STEYN: Joining me now with reaction is the sanest man in Hollywood, Jon Voight. Jon, this whole thing seems like something from another era, the idea of so much being attached to getting a treaty with Russia over a nuclear weapons. Is it even relevant to the world we are living in today?
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After that little offering of ignorant, dismissive nonsense, the main narrative of the segment became clear: Barack Obama wants to give up U.S. nuclear might so that, as Steyn put it, “the rest of the world will love us.” If only we had Ronald Reagan to protect us! From Hannity:
VOIGHT: And now I hear Obama trying to convince the American people that if we give up our nuclear weapons, this will set a fine example and all other countries will follow suit. What a dangerous and naive notion that is. If President Reagan wasn’t such a powerful force of strength, it — we never would have seen Premier Gorbachev take down the Berlin Wall.
Renown expert on nuclear issues Jon Voight says that Reagan wouldn’t have done that except, of course, Reagan signed the first START Treaty. What a hippie!