Stephen Colbert makes the case for congressman Louie Gohmert who wins it even in the face of stiff competition from the likes of Michele Bachmann. I sometimes wonder whether he could be as stupid as he really seems to be and whether he is really quite savvy and has figured out that by saying deliberately stupid things, he gets a lot of media attention. But that would require him to be a really good actor, worthy of an award.
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But that would require him to be a really good actor, worthy of an award.
It could be that being elected to high public office is the award.
It goes back to what Malcolm X once said, that they show you the wolf so that you will run to the fox, but both want to eat you. They get the Republicans to lay on the crazy so that Barbarack and company sound rational by comparison and no one will dare reject them for fear of getting the wolf. Keeps the “liberal” base in line, anyway:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/29/the-moral-blindness-of-our-leading-liberals/