What Do You Expect From A Hick Named Virgil?

I don't even have the words for this kind of shameless bigotry.

The bigotry targeted against Ellison has been incredible. Dennis Prager kicked it off with a disgusting display and was followed up by Virgil Goode who hasn't backed down. The wingnuts have been eating heaping spoon fulls of Zombie brains. Ellison spoke out against it today.

Video coming. 

BLITZER:  All right.  Let me read for our viewers who may not be all that familiar with what Virgil Goode actually wrote to his constituents back on December 7th.  Among other things, he said, "If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran."

And you just heard our Brian Todd.  He's on the scene.  He says Virgil Goode is not backing away from that at all.  What's your reaction?

ELLISON:  My reaction?

BLITZER:  Yes, what's your reaction, Congressman-elect?

ELLISON:  Oh, yes, Wolf, I think that, you know, diversity of our country is a great strength.  It's a good thing that we have people from all faiths and all cultures that come here.  And we all support one Constitution, one Constitution that upholds our right to equal protection, one Constitution that guarantees us due process under the law, one Constitution which says that there is no religious test for elected office in America. 

So the document that is the bedrock of our democracy expressly prohibits applying any religious test, and I think that diversity in our nation is a great thing and we should embrace it, not be afraid of it.

Ellison certainly carried himself better than most in addressing the streams of insults and rhetorical assaults on his faith. Then you have Virgil, defending his stance while sounding like a straight up hillbilly. If anything, that kind of backwater, ignorant specimen should be banned from Congress and relegated to Hee Haw.