So Rep. Lynn Westmoreland rose from congressional obscurity to fame this week for calling Barack Obama uppity. Eugene Robinson now reports that

A spokesman for the congressman said later that his boss didn’t realize that term has long been used to describe African Americans who don’t know their place. If so, he is the only born-and-bred Southerner alive who is so oblivious.

Wow.

But have no fear, Lynn Westmoreland is not only racist, he is also stupid. While pushing a bill to have the Ten Commandments posted in courthouses, Stephen Colbert asked him to name the Ten Commandments. He could not

And god bless you tube, for having this with German Translation and weird classical music playing in the background.