Did IQs just drop while I was away?

The AP reporter who filed this Fred Thompson puff piece should be fired. Not tomorrow. Not after breakfast. Now. The editor who didn't refile it into the trash should be canned, too.

The AP knows that the faded red pickup is bullshit, that it's just a campaign prop, that it is only marketing not related to reality, like the Iraq war. But that doesn't matter. The AP wants to print bullshit. There's just no other plausible explanation.

The weird thing is that Thompson has political advisers who apparently want to bring the truck back for 2008. Or maybe they just want to get stupid stories like this printed, since we all know that the voters are too stupid to respond to anything more hifalutin' than pork rinds, aw shucks, Ah cain't tawk too good bullshit.

Here's another load of yummy BS. Ah, Tennessee voters - and I used to be one - must be credulous idiots. Not only that, Tom Humphrey thinks they're proud that they're stupid, and he's happy to play to it any time. Some are, maybe many.

Getting back to the science fiction theme of the headline, I feel like a stranger in a strange land. Or maybe we're all just lost in the Sinai, though I don't think that's the promised land up ahead, 'cause Moses sure as hell ain't leading this particular double-wide handbasket.