Remember when you were a kid and you'd be hanging out with your friends and somebody would say something and everyone would try to top it?
"Oh, yeah? Well, one time I jumped off two roofs!"
I'm often reminded of that sort of behavior when I read of the outrages of modern conservative media and the camp following commenters it spawns.
"Oh, yeah? Well I'd imprison Muslims!" "Oh, yeah? Well, I'd nuke Muslims!"
Oh, sorry. My mistake. That wasn't two kids trying to out-ugly each other. It was one kid trying to out-ugly himself.
FOX News apparently has a show called, with no blush, "Cashin' In." This weekend, show host Eric Bolling announced he and his panel would tackle the "most controversial" subject ever discussed on the show: Let's profile Muslims.
After an intro bumper of fearsturbation clips showing that ISIS terrorists were going to blow up Times Square or your home(land) town any day now, the panelists jumped right into their most controversial topic. Since there was no disagreement on whether Muslims should be profiled, the exercise quickly became an out-uglying session.
And the winner of the round was definitely panelist Jonathon Hoenig, who's entry went straight from profiling to nuclear annihilation with a brief stop at an internment camp.
Let’s take a trip down memory lane here: The last war this country won, we put Japanese-Americans in internment camps, we dropped nuclear bombs on residential city centers. So, yes, profiling would be at least a good start.
At least a good start. Something to do while we get those camps built and load up the old Enola Gay.
And, in case Mr. Hoenig's quote should happen to get the attention it really does deserve and Rush and Sean and your rabid Facebook friends all push back with the claim that "he never said," it should be noted that "good starts" imply finishes. Take the transcript to an English teacher and get a professional opinion.
Of course, rounding up American citizens who hold some trait in common with people on the other side of the world we don't like is only prudent, right? No true conservative would ever call it wrong...