Coffee just literally flew out of my nose.  I can’t stop laughing at this.

Never in my entire life did I imagine that it was possible that I would watch a video of a relatively well-known politico whose rhetoric makes Rush Limbaugh seem tame by comparison.

Wow.  The guy needs to be in a straight jacket.  Yesterday.  Somebody is still pissed about getting absolutely decimated by the Illinois voters in 2004.

OK, now that I’m done laughing and have let this sink in, this kind of talk terrifies the crap out of me.

“Stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist”?

What. The. Fuck.?

That shit is utterly irresponsible talk, because some crazy self-hating asswipe living in his mom’s basement in Idaho is gonna see enough people talking like this fucknozzle and decide they want to be famous.

And this guy got about 27% of the vote in his Illinois Senate bid.

I hope, very much, that the media start pushing crap like this and asshats like keyes.  People, most people, need to see the fucking craziness that is the leadership of the GOP.  People NEED to see this.  People NEED to have their noses rubbed in the wingnuttiness of it all.

When it’s some stiff in a suit whining about not killing babies, some folks in the middle might see something rational there but when it’s full blown asshattery, like this, most people are repelled.

So, to the media at large, please keep keyes in the spotlight.  Please keep glenn beck on TV.  To LA Times, please stay in your race to the bottom with the NYT.  Please.  Now the LAT is on the fake birth certificate story, EXCELLENT!  What the public needs to see is how ridiculous, stupid, craven and pointless most of your reporting is.

And this guy got about 27% of the vote in his Illinois Senate bid.

...which is about the % that continues to think well of W.

I’m just utterly confused how Obama can be an “usurper” when he wins in landslide votes that can’t be challenged.

Okay, its all crazy, but that one line “his relatives in Kenya say that he was born in Nairobi when his mother was too young to confer citizenship”—since when does an American woman (or even a girl)‘s child NOT get American citizenship when the child is born elsewhere? Of course, its all a lie, but this idea that the age at which an American woman/girl gives birth determines citizenship is ridiculous. Its just facinating how long and how hard the wingnutteria will contemplate and make up this nonsense to fit their crazy dellusions.

In a way, it’s comforting to hear the insane rantings of Allen Keyes. 

As the black politician equivalent of of crazy and perennially wrong Reichwing pundits like Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes, and Charles Krauthammer, if he thinks you’re dragging America to the precipice, you can rest assured you’re really on the side of the angels.

So, Dr. Keyes, I raise a glass of orange wingnut-Koolaid to salute you and your pathological paranoia, your craptacular political track record, and your magnificent lunacy!  You, sir, are an inspiration to us all! 

(...and then I pour that shitty stuff into a nearby planter while nobody’s looking…)

(...and then I pour that shitty stuff into a nearby planter while nobody’s looking…)

At which point the plant immediately shrivels up and dies.

It is difficult for me to decide if Keyes is simply amusing or the kind of guy who will inspire a lunatic to make a run at the President. I guess a lunatic will do that with or without an inspiring figure like Keyes.

At which point the plant immediately shrivels up and dies.

All the more remarkable since the plant was plastic.

Anyway, this is scary stuff - abomination?  Really?  That’s the kind of language that incites violence.  If you really believed that the very existence of the United States was in question, and the man in charge was a mass murderer…scary stuff. 

Good thing the Secret Service does a damn fine job.

The same Alan Keyes who gave the boot to his lesbian daughter.  Well, you gotta admire his consistency of values…not!

I like how he has to specify that Obama is a “radical communist”, as opposed to one of those ordinary, run-of-the-mill, centrist communists.  I suppose, whereas ordinary communists want to centralize the means of production, radical communists are going to centralize the means of production so hard.

But if merely repeating a list of right-wing talking points makes you sound crazy… could the whole right wing be crazy?

If so, can we get “right-wing thinking” into the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?

Damn it, Keyes, why did you fail to slay that radical monster when you had a chance?

but ... butt ... BILL AYERS BILL AYERS BILL AYERS ... why can’t anybody listen and understand ... must say it yet again so they will get that its BILL AYERS!

BTW, why does this look like he is in one of those special communities for the mentally-impaired aged?

There are different sides to Keyes’s mad rant. There is the refusal to engage with the simple reality that Obama has been elected president. There’s either character assassination, or mad paranoia, in Keyes’s insistence that Obama supports infanticide, and that he’s a ‘radical Communist’.

What jumps out at me the most, however, is Keyes’s attitude about government spending. Keyes’s stance against the Stimulus package, and against the mortgage forgiveness, is beyond strident. But, look at Keyes discuss the vastly more expensive policy of invading and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. There’s the gentle remonstration that Bush didn’t attack the right way, or should not have attacked. Followed immediately by the contradictory statement that Bush’s “pre-emptive” strike in Iraq was the right decision. Or consider what Keyes says about Obama’s plans, “how can Obama break the Laws Of Economics and expect to succeed?” or words to that effect. And what did Keyes say about Bush’s TARP plan? Why, I believe he said nothing. Nothing at all.

How disappointing, when political madness is shown to be just as calculating, just as partisan, as any other kind of politics.

And yet the frickin’ LA Times presented this as a “controversy” on their website.

Interestingly, they haven’t permitted any comments to the blog post yet.  I have a feeling that 90 percent of them were along the lines of what I submitted:  “How fucking gullible are you people, anyway?”

Good thing the Secret Service does a damn fine job.

Are you serious?  These are the same guys who gave some random Iraqi schmuck enough time to throw both of his shoes at Shrub.

I wondered this when I first saw the clip of this on Maddow (or maybe Keith): Were Keyes’ pupils actually dilated? Is he actually on something, rather than merely nuts?

Am I reading too much into this?

As I said when I covered this, Keyes is a treasonous, insane, hateful bastard.  He doesn’t want to acknowledge the authority of the President, advance discredited conspiracy beliefs (they’re not theories, honestly) that even crazies like Malkin won’t touch, and make vague threats?  He can do that from federal prison, then.  Personally, I think he needs to be locked away for the safety of the country, and himself.

Given his frothing fanaticism, I’m surprised he doesn’t strip down and flagellate himself for not beating Obama for that Senate seat in 2004, or start speaking in tongues or something.

Good lord, that last post was a grammatical nightmare.

He wants to not acknowledge the Prez, and to make threats, etc.

Yes Dr. Keyes, certainly Dr. Keyes.  Now make nurse happy and take your pills.  it’s nap time…

Actually, Blue Fielder, that’s impressive. You got into some of the harder edges of Keyes’s rant, such as the apparent incitements to violence, and the sheer insanity of Keyes’s claims. I tried to tease out some of the finer points of Keyes’s hypocrisy on government spending.

There’s just a whole world of crazy, a whole lot of bad, and a surprising lot of partisan hypocrisy in Keyes’s statements.

I think Keyes is starting to turn into a black Hal Turner or Bob Dornan. Same sort of “slash and burn the guy (or girl) who beat you” bitterness.

Who the fuck cares what this jerk says or thinks about anything?

I dunno, to me Keyes basically sounds like an ultra-concentrated version of the far right. Which is useful in a way.

And to think I could have voted for Keyes in the 04 Senate race - but didn’t. I blame myself for Obama’s fraudulent presidency.

Wow, maybe Keyes should get an Oscar for this?

It would be funny if he were truly a fringe figure.

These are the same guys who gave some random Iraqi schmuck enough time to throw both of his shoes at Shrub.

Like Mikey said: Good thing the Secret Service does a damn fine job.

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.

Illinois didn’t.

This “usurper” meme is a sure sign of crazy. Does that word even apply to non-monarchal systems?

Samantha:

I suppose it could, eg in the case of a coup d’etat, but I don’t think it’s usually used.

Oh, fuck him. Who can listen to a word he says about Obama “supporting infanticide” when he kicked his own beautiful, intelligent daughter to the curb? He should recognize how lucky he is to have a child that is such a credit to him, but instead he assigns the same value to her as a used bag of kitty litter. Last I checked, President Obama still seems to be loving and taking care of his daughters.