Profiles in Asshattery - Summer Edition

Every now and then, I like to round up a whole bunch of asshats and profile them so that you, my dear readers, can point your fingers and laugh. Don Imus - You'd think after losing his job for making a boneheaded racist comment (whether he meant to be a racist or not, at least that time), he wouldn't touch race issues with a 10 foot pole. But he's gone and said something incredibly racially offensive again, and says he was just being sarcastic. Sure, it's hard to tell since he's a freakin' mush mouth and all, and perhaps he's so senile that he forgot the whole nappy headed ho's incident. Wouldn't it be funny if he also forgot how screwed he was after throwing himself to the mercy of race extortionist Al Sharpton (who truly deserves his own spot on this list) that he'll go and do that all over again? The best thing about any Imus brouhaha is always Howard's reaction. Charlie Black - Ever since 9/11, the republicans have learned to play fear like a fiddle and use it to their political advantage. But this guy forgot that Americans don't actually want to think that republican fearmongering is on purpose, even when part of them know it is. This asshat McBush campaign aid actually came right out and said that a domestic terrorist attack would help his candidate. That's like if the republicans admitted that they raised the threat level every time Bush needed a boost in the polls or that they held their last convention in NYC as close to the 9/11 anniversary as possible to try to milk that for all it was worth. Political junkies know these things, and many other Americans probably suspect them, but admitting it is tactless to say the least. George W. Bush - It wouldn't be a list of asshats without President Asshat himself. If you have to ask why, please add yourself to the list. But if you need a specific reason, today's reason is the politicization of the Justice Department. James Dobson - Technically more of a douchebag than an asshat, this theocratic jerkoff has figured out how to justify extreme authoritarian oppression with his interpretations of the bible. His holier than thou panties are all knotted up over a speech that Obama gave 2 years ago about how our laws must have a secular basis. Jimmy may talk the theocratic talk, but he doesn't walk the walk. His Islamic counterparts would have blown themselves to bits for their cause long ago. Please join them, Jimbo! (dis)Honorable Mention - This guy. And speaking of people who try to justify every sort of asshattery with the bible, this guy seems to think that Jesus was a libertarian.