Ethics

I heart Joseph Farah

By Ed Brayton

This column is a perfect example of why I find Joseph Farah so endlessly entertaining. In an entire column devoted to convincing people that Barack Obama is a Nazi, he makes a list of all the "similarities" between Obama and Hitler. And it includes this line, delivered without a hint of irony:

Demonizing political opponents

There needs to be a word for this, a word that describes the total lack of self-awareness that allows someone to write something like that with a straight face. Irony isn't strong enough, nor is hypocrisy.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).