6 Idiotic Right-Wing Statements this Week: O'Reilly Goes Off the Deep End Edition

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1. Fox’s Eric Bolling demonstrates that if ever there was a “boob on the ground” he is it.

President Obama saluted the troops with latte in his right hand this week, thus launching a flurry of some of the most inane commentary about patriotism the world has yet witnessed. A round of golf and a tan suit have nothing on latte. On Fox, it was all-latte-all-the-time, they were so hopped up on the stuff. This incredibly minor incident is all the right-wing needed to prove that the president has “no respect for the men and women in uniform.” And Fox’s Eric Bolling, co-host of “The Five” is just the man to set the president right on that. But first, he just has to tell everybody this really funny line he thought of about the first female fighter pilot for the UAE, who is helping drop bombs on ISIS targets. “Would that be called ‘boobs on the ground?’” Bolling quipped Oh, good one, Eric. Hahahahahaha.

2. All of Bill O’Reilly’s Fox co-workers say that his plan for a huge mercenary “strike force” to fight Islamic extremists is beyond absurd.

Bill O’Reilly was so pleased with himself this week. He had come up with a solution to the problem of violent Islamic jihadist extremists, and it was brilliant. All we need is a 25,000-person well-paid, mercenary “world-wide strike force,” he told viewers. “You wouldn’t believe how many military people who have called me and gone, ‘that’s a great idea.’

3. Sarah Palin no longer seems to recognize or care that her words are making absolutely no sense.

“Don’t retreat: You reload with truth, which I know is an endangered species at 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue. Anyway, truth,” Sarah Palin told the crowd at the intellectually scintillating Value Voter Summit this week. Of course, 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue is the famous address of, uhh, the plaza in front of the Willard Hotel? But you get her drift, don’tcha? Another excerpt: “Bush’s war was bad, but Barack’s bombs, oh baby those red lines, the strategery there that was thought up on the back nine, Barack’s bombs, oh they’re the bomb.” Palin seems to have reached the point where she mimics speech by stringing random thoughts and right-wing memes together, and it sounds to her like language. How she got this way is unclear. Too many family brawls, a blow on the head during a moose-hunting expedition, too much Fox News, having been given a national platform before her brain was fully formed. Those are some of the theories kicking around. The audience looked a bit bewildered, so she topped all off with her version of the now infamous latte salute.

4. Michele Bachmann – Declare War on Islam – Bet no one’s every tried that before, and it worked out great.

Of course, Palin was not the only looney tunes speaker at the Values Voter Summit. Her pal Michele Bachmann managed to take our breath away with her stunningly ignorant, bigoted speech suggesting we “declare war” on Islam. In his speech to the nation, President Obama had had the audacity to say that the airstrike war he Was launching against ISIS has nothing to do with Islam. That is just not acceptable to xenophobes and Islamaphobes ike Bachmann, who is just dandy with the idea of a modern day Crusade. Perhaps someone should gently inform her that this is precisely the narrative that ISIS would like to disseminate.