Idiot of the Week/Month
stcynic | October 19, 2004Early in October, I entered Kelly Hollowell of the Worldnutdaily into the running for Idiot of the Month. Here's our second nominee: Jim DeMint, the Republican candidate for the senate in South Carolina. According to this little hillbilly Hitler-clone, gays and single mothers should not be allowed to teach in schools. Yes, he actually said that in the campaign. And on Meet the Press, when given a chance to retract that pearl of idiocy, he said he "regrets" having said it because it distracts attention from "real issues" like jobs and national security. And the worst part? He's leading in the…
stcynic | September 26, 2004There's nothing more annoying than finding a really good Idiot of the Month nominee, putting it up, and then finding someone a day or two later who makes the first nominee sound like Mortimer Adler by comparison (okay, that's an exaggeration. There is something more annoying than that. Need I mention Celine Dion?). But yes, it has happened again, and I'm afraid David Morrell is going to have to surrender his recent award to none other than Watergate-crook-turned-evangelist-fraud Charles Colson for this unrelentingly idiotic screed in Christianity Today. Just look at this:We must be careful…
stcynic | September 23, 2004It's been a while since I handed out an Idiot of the Month award, and I'm sad to say that for the second time since i started this blog, the honor goes to someone from my own state. David Morrell attends Hillsdale College, an excellent little school, and is the founder of The Hillsdale Conservative. He is also another of the gaggle of hack writers for intellectualconservative.com, which seems to forever expand the boundaries of mediocrity and absurdity. Morrell is also the author of this ridiculous little screed about the ACLU that repeats all the old ad hominems (they're commies!) and adds…
stcynic | August 31, 2004Via Atrios: The opening invocation of the Republican National Convention was given by a woman named Sheri Dew, the charming and thoroughly deluded woman behind this bizarre speech where she says that supporting gay marriage is tantamount to supporting Hitler. No, really, she says that. Out loud. In public. And presumably, since it was at a conference organized by religious right foes of gay marriage, no one had the good sense to tell her how stunningly idiotic it was. Her actual words:
Also, while I was peddling away, I found myself reading the latest edition of one of the nation's most…