Andy McCarthy on How Barack Obama is Just Like Ahmadinejad  We
thought we'd read nothing worse today than Kathryn Jean Lopez's
op-ed on John Ensign's affair. But then we read her NRO
colleague Andy McCarthy on how Obama is totally an Islamist
Fundamentalist!  K-Lo's excuse is that she is simple-minded.
Former assistant US Attorney Andy McCarthy can say no such
thing, as idiotic as the things he writes are.  At least K-Lo's
apologia for Ensign succinctly exposes an important difference
in how dumb conservatives and dumb liberals interpret the world:
dumb liberals justify their mean-spirited glee at seeing a
member of the other team brought down in shame by claiming it
exposes hypocrisy; dumb conservatives don't understand that it's
not a tragic tale of a moral man felled by temptation, it's just
a holier-than-thou asshole getting his*.  All McCarthy's doing,
though, is absentmindedly flinging shit at the wall in the hopes
that something sticks.  So Andy McCarthy's piece is a helpful
attempt to explain just why