Charles Pierce unloads on the Idiots

[n2doc]

Some of this stuff is hard to believe.

Honest to god, in just a couple of days, we all were walked through Grand Rounds in the public wards containing people most seriously ill with the prion disease that afflicts the Republican Party and that is eating steadily away at the party's higher cognitive functions. These are cases that one day will appear in medical textbooks with the names of the patients blacked out. S.W., for one. And M.H. And, especially P. D of the N.

Let us begin with S.W., the g-e h hired by Koch Industries to manage their Midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin. Once highly touted by skeevy old bloggers as a real threat for the Republican nomination, S.W. has run a campaign that is a perfect reflection of the candidate himself – slow-witted, dumb as a sack of hair, and dull as a medieval butter-knife. He was asked the other day about what he would do, if he were president, about the refugee crisis exploding out of the Middle East. This is what the putative leader of the free world said.

"I'm not president today, and I can't be president today. Everybody wants to talk about hypotheticals; there is no such thing as a hypothetical."

Aristotle wept.

Next up is M.H., a Bible-banging god-bothering loon who once was considered likable by people desperate for friends. As part of his doomed and useless campaign for president, he has thrown himself headlong into the case of Kim Davis, the Kentucky layabout. This is what the putative commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the United States said.

"I've been just drilled by TV hosts over the past week, 'How dare you say that, uh, it's not the law of the land?'" Huckabee said. "Because that's their phrase, 'it's the law of the land.' Michael, the Dred Scott decision of 1857 still remains to this day the law of the land which says that black people aren't fully human. Does anybody still follow the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?"

And our old pal Clio, Muse of History, also known by her Marvel superhero name The Proclaimer (!), waits patiently on her doorstep, a gallon jug of Quaaludes in one hand while a tanker truck full of Virginia Gentleman pulls slowly into her driveway.

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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a37841/palin-walker-stupid-foreign-policy/

[dembotoz]

1. hate it when folks come up with better lines than i do

[Lindsay]

2. And our Charlie can be relied upon

to come up with the best lines. Which generally happen to be accurate as well.

[Paladin]

3. God bless Charlie Pierce. Long may he wave.

Bookmark his Esquire column, if you haven't already. It'll keep you sane.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. I am reading his book Idiot America.

Between him and Matt taibbi, ( plus Joe Bageant, R.I.P.).....I can get thru the insanity of the world fairly unscathed.

[Paladin]

5. +1. (nt)

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. Great book!

"Blinded By the Right", by David Brock helped get me through the *smirky years.

[krispos42]

14. It is an excellent book.

The section on Terri Sheivo just might make you tear up.

[hifiguy]

9. Charlie is a worthy successor to Molly Ivins.

Wit, truth, and brutally savage mockery. He's a treasure.

[trof]

6. Kudos to Pierce, but this stuff writes itself.

ALL the fruit is low hanging in the GOP orchard.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. Nice turn of phrase yourself

[trof]

22. Merci

[Fast Walker 52]

10. the real question is whether the MSM will finally acknowledge the obvious- that the GOP has lost its

fucking mind.

[Betty Karlson]

11. Thank you for highlighting this excellent piece of literary anger. n/t

[The Blue Flower]

12. Looks like R trolls have discovered how good Mr. Pierce is

This column has the highest number of trollish, idiotic comments I've seen for one of his columns yet, and I'm a regular reader.

[MH1]

16. And they're hilarious, aren't they?

I was just noticing the same thing.

[MisterP]

13. the Scholastics are gonna cut Walker UP!

[colsohlibgal]

15. Charlie Is Awesome

Correct and so funny, and yes like Molly Ivins with a bit of Jim Hightower and the late great Hunter Thompson.

These clowns should be exposed. The MSM will not do it anymore, Cronkite is spinning in his grave, so it is up to people like Charlie.

[vanlassie]

17. He's great. But, so far this season, I think the prize goes to

The Rude Pundit, for this: " Bobby Jindal, the world saddest animated giraffe..."

[n2doc]

18. Maybe. But Pierce has a special talent in describing Walker

from a previous post of his:

He was joined this week by Scott Walker, the thrice-elected goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their Midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin, and Walker did everything except drop his drawers and dance the hootchie-koo. There is neither a box of rocks nor a bag of hammers big enough to analogize to this guy. Dunces look at him and think, Jesus, maybe I should look into a career in astrophysics after all. In villages all over Europe, idiots look at Scott Walker and get out of the business.

[vanlassie]

19. That's pretty funny.

[GoneFishin]

20. Fricking laughing my ass off.

[DirkGently]

21. Charlie's always so much fun. n/t