David Frum Is A Moron

Toady. Bootlicker. Ass kisser. Complete and utter idiot who deserves to be stuck in an endless loop, subjected to full body cavity searches by a man named "Moe" with size 14 shoes.

Today on NPR's Marketplace, David Frum managed to wrangle himself a commentary segment so that he could push for the ultimate wet dream fantasy of the modern right wing: racial profiling. His tap dance starts off innocent enough by railing against the state of insanity that is our modern airport security procedures. But then he sticks the shiv in the back of sanity by using the inconveniences of misguided airport security as an argument for racially profiling Muslims.

His arguments in defense of profiling are so thin as to be transparent. Basically he sets up a straw man of claiming that the current practice of "suspecting everyone" would never have turned up the terrorists that U.K.'s MI5 just caught. Let's leave aside the fact that these jokers may turn out to be just as laughable as terrorists as the now forgotten Florida dunderheads seem to have been (let's just say that confessions under Pakistani torture doesn't increase my confidence, not to mention the lack of tickets and even passports). The simple and completely verifiable fact is that profiling does not work. Not only does it not work, it actually is far more likely to miss terrorists than random searches.

Don't believe me? Well, just check out the science behind it. It's child's play to defeat profiling. Hell, drug dealers stoned out of their minds even figured out how to beat profiling. Only people who simply don't understand what the problem is and haven't figured out the glory of evolutionary selection (without even any risks, mind you!) think that profiling is a good idea.

Well, certainly those and people like Frum, Malkin and apparently 20% of the polled population of the United States who think that rounding Muslims up and making them wear yellow arm bands with a red crescent "so we can identify them easier" makes good policy.

Morons.

Frum, of course, goes for the trifecta by linking the policy of random searches (which MI5 would subscribe to, of course) to the overwhelming lobbying efforts of the PC crowd (read "dirty hippies") that have congress cowed into submission such that they are powerless to propose the very draconian laws that Frum and Malkin so desperately want.

And of course, the Malkins and Frums of this country simply don't consider the fact that simply *not* pissing off the very people that you want to get on your side - i.e. the Muslims of this world who are just as upset about terrorism as the right thinking white folks of this country - is actually a damn good strategy that will bear far more fruit than alienating them in an idiotic effort that even a stoned drug mule can figure out how to defeat.

But no one ever claimed that Frum was bright. And Malkin? Well, shit. She certainly doesn't seem to be getting by on her brains.

Update: Be sure to read this gem: CSIS boss calls racial profiling 'fundamentally stupid'

The director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said Tuesday that the spy agency avoids racial profiling because it is "fundamentally stupid'' and does not knowingly use information gleaned under torture offshore because the practice is "morally repugnant.''

Frum, Coulter and Malkin, however, are completely down with moral repugnant practices - 'natch.