It was a simple statement, but it really is important. On Hardball with Chris Matthews, the GOP strategist Ed Rogers and Matthews were discussing Venezuelan President and Iranian President Ahmadinejad, and the speeches they made at the UN from a “historical” perspective. Rogers made a really ignorant and telling comment:
MATTHEWS: …I was thinking as they went to the U.N., Ed, we grew up, you know, Khrushchev banning his shoe on the table there. It was scary but it was also ludicrous. It did not make him look good. It made us wonder, geeze is this guy as scary as we thought he was. He looks like a nut. Does the president benefit to have two bete noires, like Chavez and Ahmadinejad, basically making ridiculing remarks about him in America?ROGERS: Absolutely. Chavez and the president of Iran, whose name I can‘t say, because I can‘t pronounce it, they look like good bad guys. (emphasis added)
It was amazing for three reasons: First, Matthews had pronounced it just seconds prior. Two, it’s not that hard to say and three, saying something like that is just arrogant and ignorant at the same time.
It seems pretty obvious that words with more than two syllables are a challenge for Rogers. Five, well, that’s like remembering a phone number or something.
Rogers gets the dipshit of the week award. And, considering what a week it’s been, that’s saying something!
