Further proof that publishing a crappy book doesn’t make you smart(er).

You can’t don’t need to make this shit up:

Bryan Scott Moron, 20, of Burleson, Texas, was arrested Friday after he lost control of his truck and Bstruck a mailbox, then a house, MyFOXDFW.com reports.

Living up to his surname, Moron failed sobriety tests, the station said. The arrest report showed his blood alcohol level to be more than twice the legal limit.

History, as Roger points out, says no.

Where to start. . . Instaputz notes that the Doughy Pantload is pleased to note that Vox Day likes his new book, Liberal Fascism, stating enthusiastically, “I like Vox.”

This, of course, being the same self-styled Vox Day who once marveled at German efficiency in ridding themselves of undesirable elements in the 1940s and opined that similar methods could be applied to undocumented aliens in this country:

Not only will it work, but one can easily estimate how long it would take. If it took the Germans less than four years to rid themselves of 6 million Jews, many of whom spoke German and were fully integrated into German society, it couldn’t possibly take more than eight years to deport 12 million illegal aliens. . .

and then defended his comment by stating:

So, there are no lessons to be learned from the National Socialists?

The Pantload must be desperate for praise, indeed.

Of course, one of the lessons which should be learned from the example of National Socialism is what catastrophes can result from the false elevation of vapid, cretinous gasbags to the status of “intellectual” and treating their intellectual spoor as serious thought.

I think it does not mean what you think it means.

Giving the Doughy One a run for his money in the Stoopid Race, his reaction to the Bhutto assassination is to call for a crackdown — on illegal aliens:

During an event Friday in Pella, Iowa, Huckabee said the crisis sparked by Bhutto’s death should lead to a crackdown on illegal immigrants from Pakistan.

The Huckabee official told CNN that when he said that, Huckabee was trying to turn attention away from scrutiny of his foreign policy knowledge.

Huckabee’s foreign policy credentials have been under a microscope since the candidate admitted that he was unaware of an intelligence report that Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program earlier this month.

“In light of what happened in Pakistan yesterday, it’s interesting that there are more Pakistanis who have illegally crossed the border than of any other nationality except for those immediately south of our border,” Huckabee said Friday.

Because, you know, all those illegal Pakistanis driving cabs in DC or New York somehow assassinated Bhutto in Pakistan.

Adding to the Stoopid:

But the Border Patrol told CNN on Friday that it apprehended only “a handful” of illegal immigrants from Pakistan in 2007.

The number of illegal immigrants from Pakistan deported or apprehended is not mentioned in the latest report from the Department of Homeland Security/Office of Immigration Statistics. In 2005, the nation did not make the list of the top 10 sources of illegal immigrants. The previous year, Pakistan was the last country listed, but no specific numbers were given.

Sounds like just the guy to untangle the holy mess Bush has stirred up in the Middle East. We can all wait for him to discover that most Iraqis are Shiites, when all along Huck thought they were Muslims.

As usual, the Pantload gets it wrong. When he says:

TV news is, and always has been, the shallowest branch of journalism.

Jonah is overlooking his own vast contributions to shallow journalism.

Just look at the pile of written dung from which this ironic pronouncement was extracted.

Goldberg finds some odd analogy and moral equivalence between the fraudulent press conference government officials in FEMA tried to foist on the people of this country and parodies of news shows like Colbert or Jon Stewart.

Yes, FEMA’s fakery was foolish. But — and here’s what really bugs me — what isn’t in the TV news business these days?

Poehler, for instance, was co-anchoring a fake news broadcast denouncing a fake news conference. All the while, the guest host of “Saturday Night Live” was NBC’s real news anchor, Brian Williams.

Or take Stephen Colbert, host of a fake cable news show, “The Colbert Report,” itself a spinoff from the fake newscast “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

Except those aren’t news shows, they are comedies, a point our dingbat Pantload glosses over.

Next, our fatuous indictment of nepotism mangles the Quayle/Murphy Brown episode:

But in the modern era, I blame “Murphy Brown,” the show about a fictional TV newswoman who talked about real newsmakers as if they were characters on her sitcom. When Brown had a baby out of wedlock, Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the writers of the show. Liberals then reacted as though Quayle had insulted a real person.

Except that it was Quayle who spoke as if Murphy Brown was the real person:

“It doesn’t help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.”

It was fiction, Dan, just like most of Jonah’s scribblings. Maybe Quayle meant to mention the writers, just like Jonah meant to write something which was at least semi-intelligent, but failed.

The reaction to Quayle’s comment was on two fronts. Quayle was mocked because his speech seemingly treated the fictional Ms. Brown as if she were real; the other, more substantive reaction was to Quayle’s limited understanding of diversity when it came to what “family” meant in the then present-day America.

Goldberg asks, “Is fake news now the standard?” He has shown time and again that “fake” is the standard when it comes to “facts” contained in his columns.

As Glenn Greenwald puts it:

If there is a place with more abject stupidity swirling around than the right-wing blogosphere, I’d like to know where it is.

Yesterday, Greenwald wrote a lengthy post about an email he received from Col. Steven A. Boylan, General Petraeus’s spokesman and Public Affairs Officer, which is a saga in itself, since the Officer subsequently denied writing the email in a somewhat bizarre and weaselprickish fashion.

In his post Greenwald quoted from the email at length, specifically noting the portions quoted were excerpts only, and separately linked the full text of the email.

One might think that such full disclosure would insulate Greenwald from allegations of duplicity, but for the fact that some even dumber than usual Right Wing Hack calling himself “Dread Pundit” accuses him of “[choosing] not to publish” the email in its entirety, and somehow concealing the non-bizarre portions.

But no. And naturally, the other inhabitants of the Dumb-O-Sphere pile on, like brain-damaged lemmings pouring over the cliffs of stupidity.

Forget that the email, in its entirety, is still bizarre — especially since the Colonel now apparently denies sending it. And nothing in the email would indicate that it was anything other than “unsolicited.” Greenwald made the entire thing available to his readers.

Just when one thinks Right Blogostan has reached absolute stupid, it goes even lower. We just have to hope it doesn’t someday reach the ice-nine of Stupid.

Shorter Fred Thompson:

Let’s not forget that Saddam Hussein had frickin’ sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their frickin’ heads. It’s a good thing we invaded when we did.

Verbatim Fred Thompson:

“We can’t forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, he clearly had had WMD.”

Not sure which sounds crazier.

It would seem that the World’s Laziest Presidential candidate couldn’t find time to read the Iraq Survey Group’s final report which concluded, inter alia, that “Saddam Husayn ended the nuclear program in 1991 following the Gulf war. ISG found no evidence to suggest concerted efforts to restart the program.”

BEIJING, China (AP) — A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday. The 30-year-old man fainted at a cyber cafe in the city of Guangzhou Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.

Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe, it said. The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet.

The report did not say what the man, whose name was not given, was playing. The report said that about 100 other Web surfers “left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man’s death.”

China has 140 million Internet users, second only to the U.S.. It is one of the world’s biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players, many of whom hunker down for hours in front of PCs in public Internet cafes.

Several cities have clinics to treat what psychiatrists have dubbed “Internet addiction” in users, many of them children and teenagers, who play online games or surf the Web for days at a time.

(I’m always suspicious of those “wacky stories from China,” but so far I’ve found this on the AP and CNN. So if it is an urban legend, it’s their fault.)