No More Mr. Nice Guy!

Uncle Tom's babblin'

Thomas Sowell may not be the most jaw-droppingly stupid of the extreme-right pundits out there - the competition is intense - but he is certainly a front-runner.

Take yesterday's column, where "column" is shorthand for "crazed, demented, non-sequitur bleatings of a mouth-foaming loonie-right in terminal meltdown." Sowell babbles pathetically about everything from the Antarctic ice cap (whose growth does not refute global warming) to Bill Clinton replacing all the US attorneys when he took office, a clapped-out rethug ranting point that was totally lame and bogus even a year ago, the last time anyone dragged it up.

Most pathetically of all, Sowell is ranting about the media being partisan and putting politicians' interests ahead of the public's. Well, duh! For years, Sowell was a happy part of a media that was proud to be the rethugs' mouth-piece (or some other orifice), constantly spewing the vilest hatred, propaganda, lies and distortions against all things liberal and everyone not on the extreme right-hand edge of the political spectrum. But now that bumfights are breaking out between McCain supporters and the Hannity-Limbaugh axis of stark raving lunacy, Sowell boo-hoos about nasty mean journalists "betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession." Look in a mirror, asshole.

And of course no extreme-right psychotic tirade would be complete without playing the Nazi card. I don't know why I'm spending so much time analyzing this incoherent pile of puke. Let me close by quoting Sowell's first sentence: "Even before Mitt Romney bowed out -- with class, by the way..."

You know, I've thought long and hard about the most appropriate response to Sowell, and I've decided it's the same one Jon Stewart gave to Romney.