In his latest column for the New York Times, Paul Krugman discusses the way John McCain is cozying up with Jerry Falwell and the Religious Right. It used to be that McCain was an avowed enemy of these people and thought that they had no place in the Republican Party. His campaign against them was a campaign against them just as much as it was a campaign against Bush. But now, John McCain has flip-flopped. From being an enemy of the Religious Right, he had blatantly sucked up to Jerry Falwell, the very man who was the symbol of the evils John McCain was supposedly against.

You see, the problem is that John McCain is not knowledgeable when it comes to Iraq. So, the logical question is, what else is he not knowledgeable about? Apparently, he is not knowledgeable about social issues, either. So, instead of thinking for himself, he forfeits his credibility as a maverick and drinks at the halls of power with Jerry Falwell instead.

Fellow Kossack Mike Stark, the gadfly who frequently calls right-wing talk show hosts to debunk their talking points, has made Paul Krugman's column tomorrow. Krugman, in a brilliantly-written piece, talks about how the story that Iraq had no WMD's is so much like the fairy tale in which the emperor had no clothes.

Stark, writes Krugman, was the man who said the emperor had no clothes. Krugman points to O'Reilly's response in which he screams he will stalk him by going to his house and surprising him:

I've laid my hands on additional material, which Andersen failed to publish, describing what happened after the imperial procession was over.

The talk-show host Bill O'Reilly yelled, "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" at the little boy. Calling the boy a nut, he threatened to go to the boy's house and "surprise" him.