A round of applause, please, for John McCain's reply to a question from Brian Williams on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News. Over the weekend, at the Values Voter summit, Texas congressdoofus Louie Gohmert had accused McCain of supporting al Qaeda -- this has become the standard teabagger attack on anyone who suggests any support for Syrian rebels, let alone a "let's bomb Assad" warmonkey like McCain. In a discussion of the increasingly uncivil tone in Washington, Williams noted that Gohmert's comments "hardly made a blip." (At least that's what he meant -- we're pretty sure Williams says "it hardly made a blimp," which is a phrase we'd like to see catch on.)
McCain had obviously been prepping for a question about Gohmert's accusation:
“Sometimes those... comments like that are made out of malice, but if someone has no intelligence I don’t view it as being a malicious statement.”
Yr Wonkette wishes to congratulate Walnuts on a masterful deployment of Tactical Wordplay here. He was obviously ready for a follow-up question about calling Gohmert a stoopidhead, so he could say with a coprophagic grin, look, all I meant was that my esteemed colleague from Texas obviously doesn't have access to the security briefings that would inform him on that matter.
Well-played, Walnuts. Well-played.
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John McCain Doesn't Afraid Of Any Dumb Louie Gohmert
Gohmert Syndrome is no laughing matter. It breaks my heart to hear kids taunting each other as "a Gohmert". Even when they say "what up G", I know what they mean just like when they text WTG.
Thankfully sit-coms no longer use the "g-word", though the Daily Show still crosses that boundary sometimes. "CNN really (bleep) that story", or "Michele Bachmann is crazy as (bleep)." I can read lips Jon.
On the other hand, there is real peril in trying to mainstream Gohmerts; in some districts, more than 60% of some Texans will elect them to Congress.