Opinion: Fact check: Is Kevin McCarthy a 'moron'?

[demmiblue]

After Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy this week decried the House’s new face mask requirement, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) replied with a considered response: “He’s such a moron.”

Mean! But if the dunce cap fits …

Such an incendiary charge by Pelosi demands a fact check: Is McCarthy, in fact, a moron? Let’s weigh the evidence.

The very day Pelosi called him a moron, McCarthy complained on the House floor that the latest mask guidance came from a study in India (not so) of an unapproved vaccine (also not so) that “didn’t even pass purr review.” Was he waiting for a litter of kittens to examine the data?


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But does this make McCarthy a “moron”? There might be another explanation. I asked McCarthy’s communications director, Matt Sparks, if the leader has a speech disability (in which case I wouldn’t ridicule him). But Sparks made no such claim, instead calling my ongoing interest in McCarthy’s words “a bit sad and very odd.”

Alas, this leaves only one possible conclusion, which I deliver with no elms: Pelosi’s claim earns the rating “mostly true.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/30/fact-check-is-kevin-mccarthy-moron/

[madashelltoo]

1. Is the sun hot?

[ananda]

4. Or water wet? LOL

[captain queeg]

2. I don't know, in the old timey terminology where the term came from

A moron was sort of the top of the mental deficients, one step above an imbecile and two steps above an idiot. Using that scale I think he might be an imbecile. Note: these terms have long been abandoned for good reason and are now only used as insults, and that is the way I am using the word.

[Mme. Defarge]

3. As I read this,

my cat, Gracie, was passing purr review.

Given that Nancy’s assertion has been fact checked and determined to be “mostly true”, would going “full Rex Tillerson“ have earned the highest possible rating?

[Zorro]

5. He's the proverbial ten dollar haircut on a five dollar head

[kimbutgar]

6. I know someone who is related to him

He was the known as the drunk frat boy with not a lot of brains. Family is amazed he is where he is a minority leader.

[Whiskeytide]

7. While the cat theme is funny, I think we're missing...

… the evidence that he is, genuinely, a moron. What he was likely saying was “per review”. He thought that was the correct phrase, as in “pursuant to”, or “in accordance with”.

He doesn’t understand what “peer review” actually is. It’s conclusive. He is most definitely a moron.