"I Vaz a Lazy Idiot"

The chairman of the British Home Affairs Select Committee, Keith Vaz, was among the top decision makers who, last week, bravely denied Geert "Fitna" Wilders the right to open his mouth anywhere on U.K. soil.

It's painful to watch Mr. Vaz pretending to misunderstand what free speech means, but even more gobsmacking to hear him admit, below, that he hasn't seen the film that he's deemed so hateful that its Dutch maker must be banned from England.

The co-host of BBC Newsnight, Kirsty Wark, is momentarily speechless. "You're chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee ... it's fourteen minutes long ... and you haven't seen it?" Mr. Vaz splutters that he's had more important things to do than go a private screening of Fitna at the House of Lords — willfully oblivious to the fact that the short film has been streaming on thousands of websites, including mine, for almost a year.

So why hasn't he seen it? "I have [reached] my views on the basis of what I know about this man," he explains haughtily. Yes, apparently a genius of Mr. Vaz's stature doesn't need no stinkin' evidence to come to a brilliant judgment about whether suspending free-speech rights in a country that was once the cradle of democracy is a swell idea.

In the slightly intemperate words of Pickled Politics,

He then proceeds to self-destruct in a thunderous self-inflicted detonation, causing blood, sperm and liquid bullshit dripping off the studio furniture. Leaving the other protagonists in the discussion to carry on with the semblance of a conversation, while the fulminated entrails of Vaz's credibility twitched involuntarily around them.

Watch for yourself.

Comments

[benpal]

What an unbelievable idiot.