The sound of one hand in his pants

If you’re in the market for a new Zen koan, you might reflect for a moment on the question of whether TIDOS Yankee writing for Pajamas Media is more or less inane than TIDOS Yankee writing for his own site. The fact that Bob Owens is, evidently, illiterate should surprise no one, but his his ability to discover an unseemly link between individual campaign contributions from AIG employees to Barack Obama and a government-sponsored bailout of the AIG corporation that began under his predecessor serves as a reminder of why he remains a Very Special Blogger.

Following TIDOS Yankee logic, AIG’s employees laid the groundwork for a 2008 bailout four years earlier, when they donated to the Bush campaign at a rate three times greater than they did for Kerry. Strangely, however, I don’t recall a similar burst of populist outrage and dot-connecting from Owens in September, when the US actually took an 80% equity share in AIG. Back then, of course, he was worried about more ominous perils to the republic. As John Cole puts it,

if you read Bob Owens during the campaign, you would have thought that Obama’s first priorities as President would have been to institute Sharia law, unionize ACORN and pay them 100 dollars an hour to go door to door taking away shotguns from white people, and then burn down every small business and build a mosque in its place. But, the times have changed, and now Owens informs us that President Obama is looting the treasury to send your tax dollars to companies that were by law forbidden from contributing to his campaign but he is sending them the money anyway, and even better, Obama managed to do it while Bush was President.

Furthermore, I thought that wingnuts were officially supposed to be flipped out that Obama was receiving donations in unscreened, small chunks from Homer Simpson, Osama bin laden, Daffy Duck and Raela Odinga. I’m so confused.