Aggressively Uninformed

James O’Keefe single-handedly exposed big bad ACORN and their despicable practices of telling complete strangers that pimping is easy. (It ain’t, although there is some debate on the matter.) But then he got himself caught not-very-subtly recording his pals trying to do something-or-other to Sen. Landreiu’s phones. It’s still a little unclear what they were actually trying to do; maybe trying to protect the Senator’s staff from a virulent disease transmitted via dirty telephones?

They’re claiming that they were trying to embarrass/expose her:

Four men charged with trying to tamper with a senator’s phones — including a conservative activist known for targeting ACORN — hoped to record embarrassing hidden camera footage to document allegations her staff was ignoring calls critical of her stance on health care reform, an attorney for one of the four said Thursday.

The theory, I guess, was to disable the office phones and then catch the staff joyously crying out, “Ha ha, those dumbass constituents won’t be able to call us now!” There are two major problems with this. The first is that it’s a really dumb plan. Their hidden camera would be more likely to expose staffers saying “shit, how are we going to order pizza now?” Of course, nobody will ever suspect the guys who just came in and fiddled with the phones, nor the guy recording footage of them on his cell phone. It just seems like kind of a high-risk plan to try to social-engineer your way into an office on the off-chance that staffers will say something you can spin against them.

The second problem, of course, is that Democrats don’t need help embarrassing themselves.

Some people are making a lot of noise about President Obama’s bowing to Emperor Akihito, saying that it shows weakness and deference. I agree. Showing respect is something that pansy socialists do. It’s crucial that our President assert dominance over other cultures, like Bush did with Merkel.

The 5-1 loss Wednesday was symbolic of the intense disapproval of Barack Obama by Cleveland voters, by Indians, and by the other kind of Indians. Travis Hafner’s 6th-inning home run was an unmistakable rejection of the public option, as well as irrefutable proof that the so-called “President” was, in fact, born in Kenya.

The game was the 82nd loss for the White Sox, thus clinching a losing season, further evidence that the Age of Obama is now over.

/insert flashing siren here

In related news, Obama turned down an offer of seconds at lunch on Friday afternoon, stating that he was full. Is Obama trying to do too much? Tune in tonight for thoughts on whether the President has overextended and endangered his agenda.

Indeed, there are people this ridiculous!

Joe Wilson has apparently hired a “professional Tweeter”. Whatever the hell that means. (Perhaps Eric Cantor could have used one of those, so that he could have paid attention to Obama’s speech instead of Blackberrying the whole time.)

Set aside for now the horrible idea that there might actually be people who get paid to use Twitter. I’ve long been baffled by the conservative movement’s complete obsession with Twitter, as if it is a panacea for all manner of self-inflicted wounds. Twitter has its uses (…sort of), but hiring someone else to Tweet on your behalf eliminates the two-way communication aspect of Twitter, effectively reducing your feed to a series of press releases, except very short and missing key vowels.

I don’t understand at all what tweeting is supposed to accomplish for Joe Wilson. The cynic in me says it’s just a way for him to constantly remind his followers to please give him money (or rather, “plz send $$ #tcot”). But even if a Twitter feed might help him push back against the onslaught of attacks from horrible fire-breathing liberals, does he really need a professional to help him? Even if he’s too dumb to figure out how a keyboard works, surely one of his staffers could do it for him?