The University of Oklahoma has housed conservative professor David Deming for several years, most of which I’m sure have been spent regretting the hire.
Having spent many of his formative years blasting women for wanting equal opportunities, denying global warming, finding an embedded individual right to bear arms in the Constitution despite not being a sociologist, a climatologist or a lawyer, Deming has moved on to the thing that he’s good at: being a total asshole sans the pretense.
There are many reasons to dislike Deming’s paint-by-numbers rant, from the reflexive Palin love to the rehashing of talking points that were stale in April, but it’s where he seeks to innovate that he succeeds in his pursuit for the ultimate fail. And it’s all in one line:
When Obama refers to “my Muslim faith,” the verbal gaffe resonates as a Freudian slip because of Obama’s thinly veiled hatred for this country’s unique culture and institutions.
There’s a lot in this one sentence. First, the reference to “my Muslim faith” was a non-gaffe gaffe - he was referring to the concept that others think he’s a Muslim, not revealing why all of his suits are mysteriously threadbare at the knees and how come he steadfastly avoided the pork booth at the Iowa State Fair. But non-everything Deming is also apparently a non-theologian, because he really, really seems to be insinuating that Islam is constituted primarily of a hatred of America.