This is hilarious.
Some time ago, a reporter
asked Barack Obama whether, if he is elected president, his administration would investigate alleged criminal acts by the Bushies related to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
In response to the hypothetical question, Obama was careful to distinguish between disagreeable policy and actual, substantive crimes. This was clear to competent readers of English.
Several months later, Milwaukee
Journal-Sentinel "right-wing guy" Patrick McIlheran completely ignored Obama's own response and fantasized that the Bush administration would be criminally prosecuted simply for poor policy decisions, and even desperately suggested that Obama's Department of Justice will prosecute "things" that were not even crimes, a truly remarkable feat.
We all had a good laugh about it
here and
here.
Yesterday, the
comically oblivious John C. McAdams, an actual professor of
political science at Marquette University who routinely demeans the intellectual competence of his academic colleagues — a textbook case of a pot calling the kettle black — repeated McIlheran's nonsense pretty much verbatim.
Challenged by a number of commenters at his blog to address Obama's clear statements, McAdams instead derided them for suffering from "Bush Derangement Syndrome," a phony diagnosis fabricated by the irascible
Faux News "expert" Charles Krauthammer to assist conservatives in avoiding responding to legitimate criticisms of the current Republican administration.
Now, challenged by several more, McAdams still resists engaging plain English and posits that Obama (whose name McAdams can't even spell correctly) be investigated for "possible connections with terrorists" and calls the commenters "Bush bashers," even though all any of them did was ask McAdams to actually read what Obama said.
"If [Obama] broke the law, he definitely
should be punished, don't you think?" says McAdams, despite that being not only essentially what Obama had said in response to the Philly.com reporter's original question, but
precisely what McAdams's own interlocutors are asking of him and which he refuses to answer.
Does Allen-Bradley make an
explosion-proof irony meter? If so, Professor John C. McAdams is in dire need of one.
Lest anyone finds it damn nigh impossible, as I do, to believe that John McAdams is really a university professor of political science,
here is evidence.
It's a good thing for McAdams that Marquette maintains that webpage, because there certainly isn't any such evidence at McAdams's personal blog but rather much to mitigate against it.
He does, however, perform a hell of a job in demonstrating the expression "political science" to be a contradiction in terms.
