Dispatches from the Creation Wars

And to whom are they referring? To Larry Klayman, for crying out loud. Klayman was the founder of Judicial Watch, though he somehow managed to get thrown out of his own organization later. He's a more well known version of Larry Fafarman, jumping in to issues he knows nothing about and suing anyone and everyone - and almost invariably wrong.

Back in 2005, Klayman and I tangled over the Terri Schiavo case on the debut episode of Jim Babka's now-defunct radio show. Klayman had teamed up with uber-nut Alan Keyes to petition Jeb Bush to intervene, ignore the courts and send in the state police to protect Schiavo. But he knew very little about the case, in reality, and quite frankly embarrassed himself on that radio show. Here's how Jim Babka described the debate afterward:

Brayton, who argued that the outcome of Terri's case was correct, was well-prepared and forensically strong. I think Mr. Klayman, who was primarily upset with Jeb Bush's failure to intervene and rescue Terri, is used to shorter interviews because after his four or five-bullet point initial statement he crumbled into almost entirely ad hominem arguments. He called one set of judges morons, his opposing guest an idiot (but then quickly corrected himself, and said he meant to say his ideas were idiocy), and so on. The most interesting moment in the show is when the conservative Republican lawyer said, "I don't care what Justice Scalia thinks, he's an intellectual lightweight...one of my least favorite Justices."

Most of the show focused on the role of the Courts. Klayman tried to dodge a question about state sovereignty and federalism, but ultimately conceded that he has little regard for such things when he insisted on the justification that, "Congress does stuff all the time."

Brayton handled my two toughest questions for him, but I wasn't finished with him. There were several things I wanted to ask. He was so confident and forceful he managed to keep Klayman on the defensive the whole time, and I didn't have enough time to ask him the remaining questions I have...

You can read Ed Brayton's opinion of how he thought the show went here. If Larry Klayman ever writes about it, and I find out, I'll link to that as well. But I'm guessing Larry would prefer to forget.

Yeah, Obama should be terrified. Klayman is a buffoon, a carnival barker on the political midway.