The Editors Still Got It

There was a mercifully brief period where The Editors was nowhere to be found.  The Poorman Institute fell silent, and we grieved with the loss of the Keyboard Kommandos, and all the funny which flowed so freely before.  Turns out, The Editors was just writing a book.

But now he's back ... with a attitude!  He corrects John Cole's incomplete thinking concerning the Deep Thoughts of the wingnut response to Barrack Obama's fine speech.

When you respond to wingnuttery of this sort, you are not responding to sincerely-held beliefs. You see, when the wingnut feels threatened, it excretes a foul substance which forms a protective layer of disingenuous stupidity designed to deflect dissonant facts and beliefs which could damage the wingnut’s tender underbelly of pure stupid. In order to harden this protective layer into an impervious carapace of ignorance, the wingnut needs to come to believe this tactically-held nonsense - needs to incorporate this protective layer into its body of stupid beliefs by making itself believe them for real. But then, of course, if this carapace is threatened, it too will have to be protected by a layer of disingenuous stupidity, and so on and so on until you start writing books called Liberal Fascism. It is very similar to the process by which an oyster creates a pearl, except that instead of being ‘beautiful’ it is ‘fucking stupid’, and instead of being ‘worth money’ it’s ‘fucking embarrassingly stupid’, and scallops don’t run the country and get treated as very serious people whose every rancid effluence is a noble contribution to political discourse. Indeed, in the course of my study I have identified 15 distinct types of stupid and pantomime stupid which make up the Wingnut Ego Defense Superstructure, and I’d love to talk some more about them, but I have to go rub habanero juice in my paper cuts.

Comedic brilliance.  Of course, after this post here, I really want to have The Editors' love baby.

Comments

[Jay Stevens]

F'ing brilliant.