CNN, having hired Red State editor Eric Erickson, is now firmly ensconced as America's Most Trusted Name in Wackadoodle.
You've doubtless heard by now about Erickson's threat to "pull out [his] wife's shotgun" on census workers. I don't know why his wife's shotgun is supposed to be the scariest one in the house, but whatever. More interesting, I think, is the fact that this isn't the first time he's resorted to the gun threats against government workers, real or imagined:
CNN contributor Erick Erickson has come under widespread criticism for his remark last week that he would "[p]ull out my wife's shotgun" if the government tries to arrest him for not filling out the American Community Survey. It wasn't the first time that Erickson has suggested he would respond to potential problems with the government by pulling out a firearm.
In March 2009, Erickson wrote an angry post about legislation banning "dishwasher detergent made with phosphates" in Washington state. Erickson asked: "At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?"
Erickson concluded that post by writing, "Were I in Washington State, I'd be cleaning my gun right about now waiting to protect my property from the coming riots or the government apparatchiks coming to enforce nonsensical legislation."
Look, it's nutty enough to make a habit of fantasizing about threatening government workers with guns. And let's face it, there's an audience for that sort of nonsense at Red State. Nobody denies that.
Then again, who else could have totally nailed the fact that Americans would be barricading themselves in their homes and defending themselves against the onslaught from the Dishwasher Apparatchiks? It seems so obvious now! But did you predict it? Well, that must be why you're not part of The Best Political Team on Television, dumbass!
Only Erickson was able to correctly see the anger rising, and predict that one day, Free Americans would have to stand up and insist, You can have my Cascade when you pry it from my cold, dead dishpan hands!
That's right! They're coming for your Jet-Dri! To the mountains! WOLVERIIIIIIIIIIINES!
When will these government detergent-grabbers get it? Dawn doesn't kill people, people kill people! My Second Amendment right? You're soaking in it, bitches!
Don't be lulled into complacency, people. It's socialism that softens resistance while you do dishes! Rinse Rise up! Cut through tyranny like detergent cuts through baked-on grease!
Seriously, how politically tone deaf do you have to be before CNN won't let you join "The Best Political Team on Television?" Predicting widespread rioting over dishwasher detergent? That's some pretty awesome punditry right there, don't you think? That's gotta be worth a couple bucks from CNN!