Pantload demonstrates his penchant for amoebic famine

As if on cue, Pantload demonstrates why he needn’t worry about brain-eating amoebas, which would surely starve in his cerebral Sub-Saharan Africa. Today, Jonah picks a fight with Katie Couric, the intellectual equivalent of tipping over a quadriplegic’s wheelchair:

In a recent speech at the National Press Club, Katie Couric expressed somber disapproval of the jingoistic excesses after 9/11. Among the things that vexed her: “The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States.” From what I can tell, nobody among the journalistic swells bothered to ask, “Who isn’t ‘we,’ Kemo Sabe?”

I don’t want to revisit those supposedly Orwellian flag pins, which sat so heavily on so many journalistic lapels. But it’s worth recalling that during World War II, civilian correspondent Walter Cronkite — whose anchor job Couric now holds — gladly wore a uniform, not just a pin, and subjected himself to military censors. He also used, I’m sure, the word “we” when referring to the United States.

Apart from the obvious point — that the Pantload is so feeble he has to pick a fight with little Katie — a couple of other ironies appear.

The first of which is that Cronkite wore a uniform during World War II because he was a combat reporter, flying missions in B-17s and landing in a glider during Operation Market Garden. What this has to do with a jingoistic little puke like Jonah or chickenhawks like Bill O’Reilly or Rush wearing lapel pins is beyond me.

The second irony is that Pantload, the dimmest of bulbs, once referred to that same Walter Cronkite as “incandescently dumb” (itself a self-cancelling phrase worthy of Jonah’s stupidity) because he opined that Osama bin Laden’s October 2004 video was intended to help George Bush win reelection, so much that he sardonically remarked that he was inclined to think that Rove had dreamed the whole thing up. In fact, Pantload went on to say that “it’s impossible to think that” bin Laden was trying to help Bush, although the nation’s top intelligence analysts at the CIA concluded that was exactly what bin Laden was trying to do.