The Straight Jacket Award Of The Day For 6/4/09: Another Loon Texas Politician (Updated)

The state of Texas has plenty of politicians that really makes you wonder how rational people in that state live with the crazies. We all know about Governor Rick "Secessionist" Party, who today literally said "God bless Rush Limbaugh." But get to know House Congressman Lamar Smith, and his comments today:

Yes, Congressman Smith is leading the way for a "Media fairness Caucus" in the house of Representatives because.........shhhhhhhhhhhh, the media is liberal, the media is unfair because the're liberal!

"THE GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICA IS A LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS." NOT A TERRORIST ATTACK OR THE RECESSION. SOUND THE ALARMS EVERYONE!!!!!

For this "Call to Action", Congressman Lamar Smith gets the

Straight Jacket Award for the day.

(huge thanks to the crew at Think Progress)

Updated: A Close Second is one Gordon Fibby, excuse me, I mean Libby, who thinks that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii, but where his father was FROM!

Glenn Greenwald passes along a clip of Richard Wolffe discussing his new Barack Obama biography, “Renegade,” on G. Gordon Liddy’s talk show, in an interview that rather quickly dovetails into Liddy’s conspiracy theories about Obama’s citizenship.

LIDDY: Yeah, there’s an affidavit from his grandmother that says that she observed the birth in Mombassa, Kenya.

WOLFFE: Yeah. You know, I just think that that is completely false.