“Ditto-Head”—Another Term for the Brainless?

I am weary of expending my energy reacting to people who say stupid things in public for the purpose of self-aggrandizement, either in the form of fame or money. This has become an age of talking heads who flood the media in order to appeal to the feeble-minded, the left behind, the village idiots. Here, in alphabetical order by last name, are sixteen chronic offenders:

• Michele Bachmann, Congressman (R-Minnesota). If you can stand to look at her gorgon eyes without turning to stone, you are a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
• Glenn Beck, Pundit. The rodeo clown of the right wing.
• Patrick Buchanan, Pundit. Occasionally lucid, usually not.
• Dick Cheney, Former Vice President. Mean and scary. One of the Beasts of the Apocalypse.
• Ann Coulter, Pundit. So vicious that she gets in the way of her own message. May be a transsexual.
• Ted Cruz (and his father Rafael Cruz), Senator (R-Texas). Deceptively smooth rightist ideologue.
• Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House (R-Georgia). Smart enough to know better, but wants the right wing to win to protect his own shaky legacy.
• Louis Gohmert, Congressman (R-Texas). His crazy quotes liven many press stories.
• Sean Hannity, Fox News Pundit. Smarmy and fascistic.
• Wayne La Pierre, NRA Spokesman. Wants to arm everybody. A shill for the arms industry.
• Rush Limbaugh, Pundit. If you do the opposite of what he advocates, you’ll probably be okay.
• Bill O’Reilly, Fox News Pundit. Showers with falafel.
• Sarah Palin, Ex-Governor (R-Alaska) and Pundit. The only pundit I know who may be more stupid than her followers.
• Rand Paul, Senator (R-Kentucky). What happens when you mate a libertarian with a Brillo Pad ®?
• Pat Robertson, Televangelist. Probably can be forgiven for his advanced age, during which he has surprisingly not been struck by lightning once for his pronouncements.
• Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court. If there’s something evil that a judge can say, it’ll be Scalia saying it.

Let me quote Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “Let the doors be shut upon him that he may play the fool nowhere but in’s own house.”