Dickhead of the Week - James Dobson

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As founder of Focus on the Family, James "Jimmy-Dob" Dobson hates Darwin, a woman's right to choose, and queers (even though he's currently in bed with our Commander-in-Chief).

So when Jimmy-Dob says that he's been given "reassurances" about Harriet Miers from certain Mother Dickheads inside the White House, the Senate Judiciary Committee listens. Arlen Specter seems a bit personally miffed that Jimmy-Dob might know more about Harriet than he does and might just call the Dickhead before the committee to testify under oath.

That Jimmy-Dob's taking to the airwaves this week to "clarify" what he knows leads me to believe that he doesn't want to be under oath in front of the Senate. Radio is, after all, a convenient tool for the religious right, a place they can spin and lie without having sworn to tell the truth over the Holy Bible. There's no risk of perjury on the radio. And this, in turn, got me wondering if Jimmy-Dob's been lying about his conversation with the Mother Dickhead.

I just couldn't figure out what his motivation for lying about such a thing might have been. And I suspect I couldn't figure it out because it's hard for me to think like a right-wing freak.

But from Jimmy-Dob's perspective, he's losing his battle of the courts. It's very hard to see from a liberal point-of-view, but after all the money Focus on the Family has raised and put into court battles, if Harriet isn't a right-wing fringe nominee, Jimmy-Dob is a distinct failure. Over at the HuffPost, Max Blumenthal theorizes about this and other possible motivations this week's Dickhead has to lie.

Naturally, it's also possible that Boba Rove did reassure Jimmy-Dob by sharing some of Harriet's personal political views, and if this is the case, Dobson's simply the Eldest Dickheaded Son of a Mother Dickhead.