The Values Voter Summit 2009 took place this past week in DC.  Followers of this here blog know that my standard reaction to such an event resembles a cross between uncontrollable laughter and dry heaving, which would normally manifest itself in the form of a bitterly sarcastic post.  But rather than attempting my own take, I’ll leave it to Rachel Maddow who does a decent wrap of her own:

Two things.  First, why is it that any reference to monkeys is automatically racist?  Now that we have a black president, are all monkey jokes totally off limits?  If so, that’s a shame because there are some good monkey jokes out there.  Second, can you believe how Mike Schwartz, chief of staff of Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, went off on a totally ridiculous tangent where he decided to use young boys’ general intolerance of homosexuality as a weapon of mass distortion to turn them against pornography.  As a refresher, read the below and let it sit for a minute:

All pornography is homosexual pornography because it turns your sexual drive inwards.  Now think about that.  And if you…tell an eleven-year-old boy about that, do you think he’s gonna want to go out and get a copy of Playboy?  I’m pretty sure he’ll lose interest.  That’s the last thing he wants.

His statements are so wonderfully obtuse that I don’t even know where to begin.  I’m speechless in my confusion that someone like this is given an audience.  Stupefied, I tell you!  Stupid dumb stupid!!!