Crazily partisan
That GQ, a left-leaning magazine, would have 17 Republicans on its year-end list of America’s 20 craziest politicians speaks only to its partisanship and its lack of credibility, especially in a year where Democrats suffered a thumping at the ballot box.
But the author, Stephen Sherrill, even tried to pretend he wasn’t biased.
“Look! A Democrat! Yes, this list is Republican-heavy,” he wrote, “and while that may seem like standard liberal-media bias, the reality is that Democrats just aren’t keeping pace right now in the crazy department.”
The Democrats on the list — Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson — though, could be lifers on such a list. Biden is forever gaffe-prone; Lee publicly thought men had landed on Mars and Johnson is the congressman who thought a Caribbean island might tip over if too many people stood on one end of it.