You have to wonder sometimes, don't you?

Check out this piece of genuis that a friend sent me from the Huffington Post. Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele turned in a rather entertaining spot as the guest host of William Bennett's talk radio program a couple of weeks ago.

I'd like to say he made a lot of gaffes, but that's not exactly true. He was in fact just plain stupid. Steele criticized Republicans, compared Obama to Nixon, and referenced everyone's favorite Italian dictator, "Roberto" Mussolini. Oh, if only that were the bottom of the barrel! Enjoy this little rant, which simply has to be quoted in its entirety to be appreciated properly:

And when a listener scoffed at the notion of global warming, Steele eagerly ran with the baton.

"Thank you, thank you," he said. "We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long."

Greenland, for the record, likely had forestation some 450,000 to 800,000 years ago. But its name was derived, as is most commonly believed, from Erik the Red, who wanted to trick people into going to that island as opposed to the more hospitable Iceland.

Was I the only one who learned about Erik the Red's clever Greenland/Iceland trick in 6th grade? Again, this person is the chairman of the RNC. How about "warming is part of the cooling process"? How do you even argue that line of reasoning?

This isn't even anti-intellectualism--that's giving Steele too much credit. It's just good old-fashioned stupid.