So a lot of people ask me, they ask, "Thers? You seem like a nice enough guy — well-read, a family man, wise and warm-hearted, affable, and yet touched with a melancholy nobility, as if in your mien might be discerned from afar the lofty air of vanished Númenor. Why do you waste so much of your time reading and linking to so much insane moronic wingnut garbage?" To which I usually reply, "Jeez, gimme a break, at least I never link to Doug Giles." (Which is a very funny joke, though unfortunately getting it depends on knowing who Doug Giles is, which is, well, not something anyone should ever admit in public. If you’ve never read Doug Giles, Jesus loves you and wants to do gin funnels and beat up sissies and chortle along to old Dennis Miller routines with you.)

But apart from pure shits and giggles, the real reason to patrol the more clearly goobery precincts of Greater Wingnuttia is something to do with a point made years ago by either SZ or Scott, I can’t remember which, over at World O’Crap. That is, the dumber wingnuts, the Y-listers who’d blow an orc for an Instapundit link, aren’t really much dumber or barking mad than the A-list conservatives. They just don’t know how to clean up the spittle sufficiently to look presentable in front of the Fox News cameras. So the value of peering into the sub-cellars is that these spidery denizens will often enough say flat out what their ground-floor cousins are trying to pretend they’re not actually saying, but are at least vaguely aware that they shouldn’t actually say because it’s crazy and dumb.

Take for instance something that puzzles Steve Benen — why the Charles Krauthammers and Paul Wolfowitzes and Bill Kristols of the world are being so ludicrously dishonest in pretending Barack Obama doesn’t at least have an argument for why he isn’t dropping cluster bombs on Tehran right now. Benen: "Is the administration’s position justified? Is it sensible? Might it be the responsible approach under the circumstances? The strategy is not above reproach, but the Weekly Stanard neocons just won’t, or can’t, challenge the policy. It’s bizarre."

Well, no shit. But as to what the neocons are actually up to, I submit you need to turn to a site like the Astute (pronounced "ass-toot") Bloggers, who are so cretinous (as opposed to "astute") that they don’t even know how to turn off the fucking caps lock (this is all very, very sic):

OUR TWO HIGHEST RANKING MUSLIM ELECTED OFFICIALS VOTED PRESENT ON IRAN…

HMMMM…. REP ELLISON (D) – A PUBLIC MUSLIM – VOTED PRESENT… ER UM … THAT’S JUST LIKE OUR PRESIDENT – A CRYPTO-MUSLIM, OR AT LEAST "A MUSLIM FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES".

THE BRITS, FRENCH AND THE GERMANS HAVE ALL BEEN MORE FORTHCOMING IN THEIR CRITICISM OF THE IRANIAN REGIME THAN OBAMA.

WHAT A FREAKIN’ SHAME.

AT THE TIME THE IRANIANS NEED THE USA THE MOST, WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO DITHERS….

Obama’s secret Muslimicity prevents him from, uh, siding with Muslims. The fiend. It continues:

UPDATE: ACCORDING TO A COMMENTER, ELLISON VOTED YES. THAT WOULD MAKE HIM MORE ASSERTIVE ABOUT DEMOCRACY THAN THE POTUS!

Which is its own special flavor of wonderful.

Anyhow, what have we learned? That the real reason Charles Krauthammer writes for the Washington Post is that he knows how to use lower-case letters. You’d always suspected as much, I guess.


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