16 October 2009: The Kansas Hall of Shame

According to the morning paper, Kansas Republican State. Rep. Bill Otto ranted for nearly three minutes against President Obama at a recent legislative meeting, then later posted a YouTube video of himself  singing an anti-Obama “Redneck Rap” while wearing a hat that said, “OPOSSUM, the other dark meat.”  At the end of his song, Otto points to his hat and says again, “Opossum, the other dark meat.  A little greasy, but hey…”   OTTO.  That’s a Germanic name, isn’t it?  I guess the less said about that, the better.  One can make a joke of it, say that the man OTTO RESIGN. Or, at the very least, EAT CROW.  We now add his name to THE KANSAS HALL OF SHAME.  That’s BILL OTTO up there, right next to Kansas Republican Congresswoman LYNN “Great White Hope” JENKINS. And, of course, the irreverend FRED PHELPS of Topeka’s Wasteboro Church.