With an even greater sense of impeccable timing, Washington Monthly dimwit Steve Benen agrees with Joe Klein that the lumpen proles are crazy to think self-avowed communist Van Jones is, well, a communist:
Time's Joe Klein reports from Arkansas, where he attended a town-hall event hosted by Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D). He found an "astonishing" number of attendees who were absolutely certain that President Obama has "larded the government with communists."
Yeah, astonishing.
Duh.
Anyway, Benen digs even further into the Pit of Cluelessness:
It's possible that Arkansas is just uniquely strange right now. It is a state where a majority of residents trust Rush Limbaugh, and distrust President Obama. It's a state where less than half the population believes the president was born in the United States. It's a state with one of the highest rates in the country for those lacking health insurance, but where the idea of reform is wildly unpopular.
Can you feel Steve's love for "the people". And he wonders why Obamacrats just like himself in the White House are having trouble connecting with those living in flyover territory.
Duh.
It gets better:
Or maybe it's not just Arkansas and there's something very wrong with our political system, put under a serious strain by the "conservative lunatic brigade," stuck in a "perverse nonsense feedback loop."
Birthers, Deathers, Tenthers. Beck, Palin, Limbaugh. Bachmann, Inhofe, DeMint, King, and Broun. A scorched-earth campaign intended to tear the country apart, questioning the legitimacy of the president, the government, and the rule of law. It's all very scary.
As of right now, Steve, the most powerful and influential birther in the United States isn't one of the "conservative lunatic brigade" working to "tear the country apart".
Not by a long shot.
The most powerful and influential birther in the United States is working in Barack Obama's Administration. His name is Van Jones and he's the Green Jobs Czar.
Steve's final observation flies right off the irony meter:
The crazies have a political party, a cable news network, and a loud, activist base. They're mad as hell and they're not going to take their medications anymore.
You're right, Steve, to an extent you can't begin to contemplate...
Okay, Steve. The White House has a communist czar who signed up for the "Bush massacred 3000 Americans on 911" society. But the nuts are the people who wonder whether O's mom got back to American soil in time. Got it.
Can I sign up for your newsletter, Steve?
Posted by: Jim Ryan | September 04, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Dennis, you're a real f*cktard. Perhaps medication would fix that, but I doubt it.
Posted by: elliottg | September 04, 2009 at 12:41 PM
"Perhaps medication would fix that, but I doubt it."
Perhaps you sucking off a shotgun might make you better looking, but I doubt it. It would certainly make you smarter.
The amazing thing is that eliot makes Garrity look like a beacon of reason.
Posted by: David | September 04, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Dennis. You should really punish elliottg. Make him an honorary life member.
Posted by: PeterUK | September 04, 2009 at 04:29 PM
You're right, Steve, to an extent you can't begin to contemplate...
Dennis, I believe that Steve is projecting. This failing was not unknown amongst lefties pre-Obama, but very common since Obama started screwing up by the numbers.
Posted by: JeffS | September 04, 2009 at 04:39 PM
Good to see Elliott taking a stand and backing up the birthers.
Why am I not surprised.
Posted by: Dennis the Peasant | September 04, 2009 at 06:28 PM
I thought Jones was a truther? Or is he just generally a joiner?
Posted by: Simon | September 04, 2009 at 09:24 PM
I certainly enjoy this rubbish. If I showed up for any job shoveling shite in this country and refused to provide proof of citizenship they would toss me on the rocks. Enter Dear Leader, and questioning the refusal to provide the basic documents that most if us take for granted is a mortal sin...
Posted by: Christopher Rampley | September 05, 2009 at 03:19 AM