Gaffney

Image blatantly stolen from howstuffworks.com

On the way to Atlanta on I-85, travelers pass by the above water tower in Gaffney, South Carolina. The tower, which is supposed to be a peach, is legendary in the Southeast for its resemblance to a large set of buttocks. In essence, Gaffney, South Carolina wants the world to think "huge ass" when it thinks of Gaffney.

And that's fine. Civic pride being what it is, you can't begrudge the effort. The addition of the green leaf at the top and the new paint job has lessened the effect somewhat, but you can't deny that, from certain angles, that is one huge ass.

So, Gaffney = huge ass.

It's heartening to see that the Washington Times is doing its part to maintain that word association. In his most recent drool-spattered screed, Times columnist Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. uncorks a series of jaw-dropping statements that basically amount to "Obama is a muslim terrorist."

Obama, you see, used "peace be upon them" when addressing a muslim audience and discussing Christ, Moses and Mohammed. This is, according to Gaffney, proof that he is really Muslim, since Christ is the Living Son of God and therefore shouldn't have peace wished upon his memory. No really, he actually said that. "When in Rome" must be to Mr. Gaffney an invitation to plunder and rape the entire Mediterranean.

He also contends that such figures of speech are deeply revealing of Obama's true religion, but that his characterizing the bond between Israel and the US as "unbreakable" is "mere lip service."

How easy it must be to live in the world when your world view allows you to distort all fact and reason to fit your own beliefs.

It gets even worse. Check this one out. After noting darkly that Obama was "raised a Muslim in Indonesia," he goes on to state:

This is not to say, necessarily, that Mr. Obama actually is a Muslim any more than Mr. Clinton actually is black. After his five months in office, and most especially after his just-concluded visit to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, however, a stunning conclusion seems increasingly plausible: The man now happy to have his Islamic-rooted middle name featured prominently has engaged in the most consequential bait-and-switch since Adolf Hitler duped Neville Chamberlain over Czechoslovakia at Munich.

Pretty impressive use of a debunked lie about Obama WHILE violating Godwin's law, all in the same paragraph.

So yeah. Gaffney = huge ass.