And the Shamefully Idiotic Quote of the Week belongs to----Drum Roll, Please: Well, what do you know? It's a tie. It just so happens that both of these idiots were unable to out shame the other when spewing nonsense about this week's Al Gore Speech. Our first idiot is, and this should surprise no one, Sean 'The King of Shame' Hannity:
"Should -- why would Al Gore associate with a group that is that left wing and that radical? What if he spoke before the Klan? Would that -- would we not hold him in judgment for that?"
There you go. Yep, you heard right, he just compared MoveOn.org to the Ku Klux Klan. Enough said.
Thanks again to The Center for American Progress' Daily Progress Report for that little gem of idiocy.
Our shameful co-idiot is New York Times columnist David Brooks, who said this about Gore's speech on PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer:
"You know, the guy has been through something none of us will ever go through, I think it's had an emotional effect on him, a psychological effect."I think what bugged me about the Al Gore speech was not that it was out of all proportion -- that it was really -- there was no moderation -- no sense of reason, but how uninterested he is in what's happening in Iraq, how intellectually uncurious he is. He's fighting a war, but it's not a war against terror, it's not a war in Iraq. It's a war against Bush. He'll say anything about Bush but as far as talking about what we should do in Iraq, what the problems are, he doesn't care about that. That's the voice of moveon.org -- that's the voice of Michael Moore; they're fighting a war; it's against Bush but it's not the war this country is fighting. And I think John Kerry is absolutely right to resist that kind of language."