Ass Clown Special Award

Since I began the regular biweekly presentation of Ass Clown Awards* back in 2014, I have bestowed three out-of-cycle Special Awards for particularly noteworthy ass clownery that I believed shouldn't wait until the next scheduled award. These were to The Republican Party (September, 2020); GOP Senators Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and the GOP Sedition Caucus (January, 2021); and Dr Sherri Tenpenny (June, 2021). Such is the level of rampant ass clownery around the nation and the world at this sad moment in time that I considered changing the award to weekly, rather than biweekly** ... but I was afraid of cheapening the impact of individual awards by presenting too many of them.

And so it is, Dear Readers, that I have decided to present more Ass Clown Special Awards when I think the level of ass clownery and/or the appropriate score on the Gohmert Stupidity Scale shouldn't wait for a regularly-scheduled award. This is one such point in time.

I hereby present an

Ass Clown Special Award

to

Representative Paul Gosar (R, AZ-4)

How terrible do you have to be to have six of your nine siblings publicly back your opponent in the race for your seat? Or to have several of them declare that you should be ejected from Congress? One of his brothers, an attorney, said "I consider him a traitor to this country. I consider him a traitor to his family ... He has disgraced and dishonored himself." His sister described him to a CNN interviewer as "hateful and bigoted." His 85-year-old mother has defended him, saying in a 2018 interview that “I share the same philosophy and policies that Paul does ... He’s done a hell of a job for Arizona, and they love him.”

Well, not everyone does, nor does he love very many people. 

Mr Gosar is one of the most bizarre figures in a House full of them. He has claimed in fundraising e-mails that the FBI had a hand in instigating the January 6th Capitol riots. He believes that "liberals" incited the infamous 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a "false flag" operation to discredit conservatives. He continues to support the discredited theory that former President Obama was not a US citizen by birth. He insists that Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot and killed during the storming of the Capitol, was "executed" by police who "lay in wait" for her and killed her without warning. 

And he has appeared in advertisements for a fund raising event sponsored by a known segregationist and white supremacist, although he denies any knowledge of the event. 

In the noisy and disgraceful clown car that is the Congressional GOP, Paul Gosar is firmly wedged into the front seat, and rates a Gohmert Stupidity Scale score of 500,000 ... he deserves a higher score, but his behavior indicates that a great deal of additional headroom is needed to accommodate future lunacy. He is eminently deserving of this Ass Clown Special Award.

Have a good day. More thoughts coming.

Bilbo

* Right-Cheek, Left-Cheek, and - when there were three available Fridays in the month - On Crack.

** It was actually monthly when I first started out.