WTF? Ignorance Officially Replaces Hope as One of the Seven Virtues

As you may have heard, Half Baked Alaska, responding to President Obama's State of the Union speech, rewrote history by asserting that the launch of the Sputnik satellite by the Soviet Union in 1957 led to the dissolution of the USSR more than 30 years later. You have to love the confidence she shows when she utters her inanities as if, duh, everyone knows that. She also said the U.S. "lost" the space race, apparently unaware that the U.S. dominated the space race through the 1960s and reached the moon first. She then criticized the president for trying to "aspire" Americans by saying this was our Sputnik moment. She called it another "WTF" moment in Obama's speech which, as you may know, means "white trash female."

Did you know that the launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to the demise of the
Soviet Union more than thirty years later? Neither did CJG.

But Half Baked Alaska's utterly ignorant remarks almost pale next to congresswoman and Tea Party diva Michele Bachmann's claim that the Founding Fathers, "the ones who wrote those very documents" worked "tirelessly" to end slavery. As most high school students know, not only did Jefferson and Washington own slaves, slavery was the great unfinished business of the American Revolution and the issue festered until it led directly to the Civil War nearly a century later. She is also apparently unaware of the compromise enshrined in Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution that for the purposes of counting the American population to apportion taxation and members of the House of Representatives, slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person which helped states with large slave populations remain slave states.

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This is the stuff that makes crankyjewishguy's (CJG's) blood pressure go through the roof. No one waves the Constitution around more, or claims to be more patriotic than thou, than these two half-wits, yet for the purposes of enumerating the population we count each of them as a whole person. CJG thinks that perhaps members of Congress, and those aspiring (note correct usage of the word "aspire") to the presidency, should be given a basic test in Constitutional literacy and American history. CJG is hard pressed to recall a time when abject ignorance was the political virtue it is now. WTF indeed.