From: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 2/6/08, 14:24

If the Reader is of such an exceedingly sick frame of mind that he or she has ever considered pursuing a career for the express purpose of failing at it - for instance, if the Reader is Carlos Mencia - then he or she could hope for no better mentor than conservative pundit and Romney backer Hugh Hewit.

A few days back, Hewitt managed to write another column from his home in the Third Astral Plane. The point of this latest one, to the extent that any point could be divined therein, was that Huckabee would attempt to split conservatives in an effort to assist McCain in his bid for the nomination:

Will Huck succeed and throw the GOP to McCain?

[The] MSM thinks so, but they also thought Hillary was headed into a double digit [sic] blow-out [sic] in New Hampshire. [The] MSM is assuming that the vast majority of Giuliani supporters break for McCain and that Thompson, Huckabee and Paul voters don't break to Romney now that the race has clarified.

Let's back up here a bit and assume that the "MSM" really "thought Hillary was headed into a double-digit blowout in New Hampshire," which is quite an assumption insomuch as that such a characterization is really not very accurate. If it is really the case that the MSM predicted a massive Hillary victory in New Hampshire in advance of that contest, then they still one-upped Hewitt by at least picking the actual winner and doing so before the winner had been determined, whereas Hewitt predicted a massive Obama win in New Hampshire and did so after the winner had been determined. Here's Hewitt on January 11th, after Clinton had won New Hampshire:

With Michigan, South Carolina, Nevada and Florida as rest stops on the way to Super Tuesday, and with the collective credibility of pundits and pollsters shattered after Obama's staggering, run-away win in New Hampshire, it has begun to dawn on the commentariat that they have no idea what is going on in the presidential race, and that voters may be troublingly insistent on casting ballots for whomever they want regardless of the results predicted by the pros.

Just to reiterate here - Hewitt, in the course of criticizing the alleged failed predictions of some amorphous group of pundits who predicted many different things, failed to predict something that already happened by wrongly deeming Obama to have won New Hampshire by some large amount when he had, in fact, lost New Hampshire. Nonetheless, here goes Hewitt once again, smoking pot while calling the kettle African-American or whatever. And, of course, his kinda-sorta assertion that the "MSM" was silly to think that Giuliani people might go for McCain was, as far as can be determined, also wrong. I mean, Jesus, people. Look at this guy. Where did he come from? Why does he own a home? Will someone please take away this man's home and automobile and put him to work in the salt mines?