Corner lunacy. . .
Those little sods in the corner are en fuego with teh stoopid today.
Many are concerned that the fact that William Ayers was a radical is as unknown as the fact that McCain was a POW.
But teh stoopid cake today is taken by Jay Nordlinger with this putz-worthy effort:
Yesterday, I posted with some fury about one of Joe Biden’s lines. He said, “These times require more than a good soldier, they require a wise leader.” I thought that was pretty disgusting. You could interpret Biden to mean, “McCain may be good enough to go off to Vietnam and get himself tortured. Good for him. But he just ain’t smart enough to be president.”
You could interpret that way, if you’re a frickin’ idiot trying to manufacture a golden slur out of simple straw. (Although Nordlinger is sure to get Wingnut Bonus points for pointlessly working “McCain was a POW” into the narrative) On the other hand, it doesn’t take any “interpretation” at all to understand “It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign” as a direct and unambiguous slur against Senator Obama. Especially when, at the time Obama publicly stated his opposition to the Iraq war, support for war and President Bush was extremely strong, and any political calculus might have led a me-first/country-second politician to say absurdly unhinged things like, “I am proud of the leadership of the President of the United States,” or “I believe the President of the United States has done everything necessary and has exercised every option short of war,” or “obviously, we will remove a threat to America’s national security because we will find there are still massive amounts of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,” instead.
Nordlinger tops this already solid dumbfuckery by purporting to quote Thucydides as saying, “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.” Until he is corrected by another cornerite pointing out that Thucydides never wrote any such thing who admonishes, “Don’t Rely on Wikiquote!” These wingnuts be lovin’ their ersatz-Thucydides.
