Finding the perfect rhetorical question to use as a headline is often the hardest task a writer faces. Luckily, this flat earth is blessed with the presence of one John Neely Kennedy, a village idiot on loan to a seat inside the Bloatway’s Senate. He appeared on Meet the Press.
I do my best to ignore Chuck Todd on Sunday mornings. The nausea, that impending sense of upChucking, the mental frustration he normally evokes is just about the worst way to spend your TV time. But this morning, Chuck surprised me. In what was obviously a staff-planned interview, with the initial softball questions scripted out and given to Kennedy’s staff, Chuck gave Kennedy every opportunity to walk back his idiotic, Putin-based propaganda about Ukraine’s alleged interference in the 2016 election.
Bless his sole. Kennedy’s, I mean. Because after he gave his pre-rehearsed answer, he immediately went off script so bizarrely and with such ineffable stupidity, that even Chuck was offended. Kennedy not only back tracked his backtracking, he started spouting new conspiracy theories, including a new conspiracy between Ukraine and Hillary Clinton. To call it hoof in mouth disease just doesn’t do it justice.
Kennedy tried to sound educated, informed and well read. I think he cited the Economist three times, claiming that the august journal found and reporte on the UK-Hill conspiracy. Instead, he came off as seriously misinformed, ineffably stupid and totally embedded in Trump’s Land of Bizarro.
I am an avid reader of the Economist. If there was such an article, it must have been reported on in the February 31st edition.
Chuck actually called him on it and told him point blank, “You are doing Putin’s job for him.” This was the most serious interview I have seen Chuck do of a republican. He almost appeared to be a real journalist.
Kennedy, not realizing that his sole was already being digested by his own stomach acid, doubled down even more. When the NBC staffers manage to remove the remnants of his foot from his mouth, I suspect that Kennedy may have gained a permanent limp.
He appeared so dumb and so lost at sea, that he didn’t even realize that Chuck had backed him deeply into a corner of the Oval Office. The most amusing part? Kennedy actually appeared proud of what he was spewing.
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On edit, Raw Story just dropped this love note to Kennedy. www.rawstory.com/…
According to Kennedy, who has been under fire for pushing the Ukraine 2016 election conspiracy theory, “I think both Russia and Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. I think it’s been well documented in the Financial Times and Politico and The Economist and the Washington Examiner, even on CBS that the prime minister of Ukraine, the interior minister, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States, the head of the Ukrainian anti-corruption league all meddled in the election on social media and otherwise. They worked with the DNC operative against the president.”