'Screamin' Mad' Howard Dean

Opinion Journal's James Taranto quotes an MSNBC interview of Howard Dean concerning his mockery of Rush Limbaugh's pain medication addicion.

"The problem is it is galling to Democrats, 48 percent of us who did not support the president, it is galling to be lectured to about moral values by folks who have their own problems. Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings. I don't think we ought to give a whole lot of lectures to people--I think the Bible says something to the effect that be careful when you talk about the shortcomings of somebody else when you haven't removed the mote from your own eye. And I don't think we ought to be lectured to by Republicans who have got all these problems themselves. . . . We ought not to lecture each other about our ethical shortcomings."

I have no issue with calling Rush out on his doctor-shopping, pill-popping, former nicotine stained fingers used to sit on bran muffins ways. What I do take issue with is the idea that people like Rush Limbaugh should be held up as the Gold Standard of Republican thought. Rush is like those fish that attach themselves to passing sharks. He's a hanger-on, he's an entertainer. There's very little difference between talkshow hosts like Limbaugh and the latest bimbo to host A Current Affair in terms of journalistic integrity. Dean's comments are below what I expect from the Chairman of a major political party. That kind of insult should be farmed out to the left's various talking heads. The politicians themselves should be held to a higher standard of discourse.

That being said, Howard Dean is a crazy fuck who, for pure entertainment value, should run for President in 2008.

Possibly with George 'The Animal' Steele as his VP.