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.

Gomer has really outdumbed hisself this time.

“How dangerous could a half-dozen virulently racist, skinheads with flak vests armed with high-powered rifles and high on meth be? And why must all those left-of-Lester Maddux losers in the press make a big deal out of it every time a few white supremacists plot to kill the first African American nominated for President?”

Via Sadly, No! Shorter Confederate Yankee

. . . . with the moronic Munich/Ossetia babble.

But World O’ Crap finds an even stoopiderer wingnut: some clown named Warner Todd Huston.

Huston’s Dissertation in Teh Stoopid — Georgia/Russian war: blame Obama.

Simply stunning.

Glenn Greenwald reports, you decide.

Cornerite Charlotte Hays siezes upon a variant of the flypaper theory, as if it were some kind of brilliant new insight instead of a pathetic and long-discredited excuse.

Even Rudyard Kipling thought Afghanistan was a hellish place to fight. So why is Obama itching to fight al-Qaeda there rather than Iraq? Yes, we did draw the bloody monsters to Iraq, but, as it turns out, it was a better place to fight them. But the Left dogmatically insists that it is better to confront al-Qaeda in Afghanistan’s fastness, a terrain that gives al-Qaeda a huge advantage. Such is their antipathy to George Bush and (as is now more certain than ever after Obama’s Berlin rally) the use of American power.

It’s not antipathy to Bush as this simpleton suggests, but rather the fact that our presence in Iraq has enabled al Qaeda to recruit more and different sources and recruit native Iraqis to fight in Iraq without impairing in the slightest their ability to recruit from their untouched bases in Afghanistan. Iraq is more accessible than Afghanistan or Waziristan to potential jihadist recruits, and as our national intelligence estimates stated, the occupation of Iraq has provided al Qaeda affiliated groups with a cause and motivation for jihadist recruits. A larger recruiting bases and more fodder for al Qaeda recruiters is not a good thing.

An analogy would be a patient with an infected lung deliberately causing another infection in his arm, so he could fight the infection there since it is, after all, easier to reach. Just like Iraq.

DoughBob Loadpants: The day after his execrably stupid column asking whether Obama’s call for national service was not equivalent to a call for slavery, can-only-aspire-to-moron-status NRO nepotism exhibit Jonah Goldberg has the temerity to ask whether Obama is “Dishonest or Stupid?”

Why? Because in his view, bilingualism has nothing “to do with the importance of teaching kids a second language” and anyone who things that bilingualism is connected to learning a second language has no idea what he’s talking about.

Pantload, meet Mr. Webster:

Main Entry:
bi·lin·gual·ism
Pronunciation:
\-gwə-ˌli-zəm\
Function:
noun
Date:
1873

1 : the ability to speak two languages 2 : the frequent use (as by a community) of two languages 3 : the political or institutional recognition of two languages

But then again, Jonah’s primary vocation for the past few years has been the exhibition of stupidity to grotesque excess.

Although Jonah’s fact-challenged and intellectually-stunted writing often raises the question “stupid or dishonest” reflection on his past works pretty quickly leads to one conclusion: it’s the stupid.

Well, not really.

Pattycakes is upset because others aren’t grieving over the death of vicious, unrepentant, racist assholes he admires:

P.S. I firmly believe “TBogg” wouldn’t be this happy if the dead man were Osama bin Laden, instead of Jesse Helms.

P.S.: I firmly believe that Patterico is a vapid, soulless cocksucker who breathes new meaning into Samuel Johnson’s old saying, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

Of course, if I’m wrong, it’s easily proven. All you need to do is dig up all his old posts denouncing vapid, soulless douchebag cocksuckers who hijack patriotism like a methed-out wise guy to use it like a cudgel.

Of course Patterico, being the disingenuous prick that he is, ignored the prefatory quotes to TBogg’s eulogy:

“The University of Negroes and Communists” - Jesse Helms 1950

“They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.” - Jesse Helms 1968

( …but he wasn’t a racist )

“The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.” - Jesse Helms 1995

“Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.” - Jesse Helms 1995

“Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING and MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.” - Jesse Helms 1996

Confronted with evidence that D’Aubuisson directed death squads to murder civilians, Helms made it clear that some things are more important than human life. “All I know,” he replied, “is that D’Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.”

Assholes like Patterico are deeply averse to context, aren’t they?

Scott adds:

The symbols that stick most prominently in my mind are his use of the blue slip to prevent the integration of the Fourth Circuit and “whistling ‘Dixie’ while standing next to Senator Carol Moseley-Braun.

Just the kind of spirited racist scumbaggery that tugs at a faux-patriot’s heart.

Today’s epic Pantload spoor is titled Can Obama rescue Bush?

If history is written by clueless Doughy Pantloads, Bush will be either venerated or overlooked, depending on how lucky he is or how successful we are in blaming others for his fuck ups.

Verbatim Doughy Pantload:

A successful Obama presidency would have the unintended consequence of making Bush’s memoir a success story.

Sadly, No! catalogues the latest adventure in stupid for the Doughy Pantload