Oh, Yeah, Mo'Rima!

And not (just) because she is so gorgeous, …

... but, as predicted, because we knew -- we knew -- that this would make the wingnuts go (even more) insane.

I was gonna say earlier that my feeble wrap-up of Wingnuttia was best ended early, because I was sure Roy would be delivering the unholiest of unholy summaries in his next Voice column. However, Mr. C. Pierce informs me that Roy could not wait.

We will remain hopeful for more comprehensive coverage from the master, though we suspect this will go down as one of those things where the master feels said fish in said barrel are not worth his ammunition even though he now lives in Texas, fercrissake.

Meantime, here are the first things he has noticed. You will laugh, you will weep. That is wingnuts.

He attempts to summarize the unsummarizable:

These people are just mad they're not old enough to have protested Jackie Robinson signing with the Dodgers.

Can I get an Uh, huh, people?

Please to go read.

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[Added] Man, that first quote that Roy picked up is to die for. What I was looking for earlier. Wingnuttia Search is good, but it is not quite up there down as low as Roy knows how to go.

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[Added 2] Perhaps one of the reasons Roy has decided to post a quick, rather than comprehensive, wrap-up of Wingnuttia's reactions to Rima's win is that he has been busy assessing their reaction to the cancellation of Law and Order. Yep. The end of this twenty-year (!) run is due solely to liberal bias. (Overused phrase, but! this is a must-read. Srsly.)

If you're a crazy person, like me, you might also have a look at the Memeorandum link that Roy offers. As he has said elsewhere, this is likely for connoisseurs only. I mean, it starts with a Malkkkin link, and what could be crazier than the Queen Of All Brown-Skinned Women (Who Hate Brown-Skinned People, FOR MONEY) hating on a brown-skinned woman, with a bunch of flaccid white one-handed typists weighing in at the top of their … let us say … "lungs?" (In case you're lost, we're back to beauty contests, and away from … teevee detective shows? Or some shit like that?)

Pardon me for belaboring the only point I'm almost always trying to make, but these people -- wingnuts -- are fucked up. And they want to run your country, not to mention your world. So, comedy and all aside, especially in light of the reality that I have lately lost my sense of humor in trying to report on them … you should maybe pay attention, in serious mode, every once in a while. Is that too much to ask?

Okay, end sermon.

For now.

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[Added 3] Yeah, "for now." No one could have predicted that Adam Serwer would have something smart to say… 

I'm not really a fan of beauty contests, but the tone and substance of the fever swamp's reaction to an Arab-American winning a beauty contest is at least useful for pointing out how some people's political opinions aren't based so much in questions of policy as anti-Muslim animosity. The level of anger is just so plainly disproportionate to the matter at hand as to be self-implicating. These people aren't worried about terrorism -- they're offended by the idea of Muslims being integrated into the most mundane and banal aspects of American society.

… or that Steve Benen would have been smart enough to link to him.

Good Fallout

Went out to dinner at one of my favorite restaurants earlier this evening, and it will probably not surprise you to hear that I still had Rima Fakih on my … let us say "mind." Sadly for my friend Haleim, the owner, it was not an overly crowded night. Happily for me, the wise-ass, the quiet room gave me space to ask, "Tell me, are you, as a man from Egpyt, OUTRAGED that a Lebanese woman has won the Two Thousand And Ten Miss USA contest?"

(Ordinarily, of course, I would not say that "And." But this time, you know, for comedy.)

Bastard. I have never been able to throw him off stride, not even for a moment. He knew exactly what I was talking about.

(We ended up having a fairly interesting conversation, stemming from this opening sally. (I would share some of the details with you, but, eh, now I'm getting the feeling he didn't think this would be an on-the-record talk (with some pajama-clad gossip blogger, to boot), so sorry, no.))

Anyway, I WILL get to him, one of these days.

And then he will have to stop calling me "Junior."

Being that he is probably a decade or so younger than me, his calling me that is kind of like being Dwight Howard, being dunked on by Rajon Rondo. Which will happen, which I am rooting for, and no, I am not actually comparing myself to Superman.

I could make way more free throws, dude. Please. 80% minimum, and that was after running suicides.

(Yeah, so I never actually got to shoot a foul shot in a so-called actual "game." Like that's supposed to mean something.)

Storm Warning

Never mind the howling about closet criminal coddler John Roberts. I can't wait to hear the reaction from Wingnuttia to the winner of the 2010 Miss USA contest, Rima Fakih.

Pageant officials told The Associated Press that pageant records were not detailed enough to show whether Ms. Fakih was the first Arab-American, Muslim or immigrant to win the Miss USA title.

Oops. I see it's already started. K-Mart Coulter, aka Debbie Schlussel, calls her "Miss Hezbollah," says the contest was "Rigged for Muslima," and concludes that she is "Miss Oklahoma’s Arizona Immigration Answer." And by "concludes," I mean that's just the end of the post title. (Also, Rima Fakih is from Michigan.) She goes on, bellowing, "I was on top of this story before anyone, telling you about who Fakih is and her extremist and deadly ties."

The Jawa Report headlines: "Zionists Install Rima Fakih As Miss USA 2010." This seems even weirder than confusing Oklahoma and Michigan to me, but Howie assures us in his opening sentence, "Everything is proceeding as we have forseen." This may or may not be the same as foreseen; perhaps it's all about plausible deniability, Howie?

Pam Atlas Geller Shrugs seems happy about it, though I have to say, she seems even happier about one of her commenter's "thoughts:" "I wonder if the ink is dry on the fatwa."

Hateway Pundit is beside himself (a euphemism for fully and guiltily tumescent, I'd wager) that Rima once participated in a pole dancing contest AND HE HAS PICTURES AND LINKS TO PROVE IT. Probably mad that she was wearing clothes.

And so on.

Congratulations, Rima! And welcome to these United States!

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For those not filled with outrage, there are three more pix of Rima here: the swimsuit shot, the evening gown shot, and the "glam" (gam?) shot. In fishnets! Oh yes, you're going to click.

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Added: Oh, what the hell. Too beautiful not to steal:

(h/t: Ken Layne | Also: post title in tribute to an old friend, "Chester Gordon." Sup, JJ?)