Not Nearly Funny Enough

P.J. O'Rourke soils himself. Ted Barlow cleans him up:

The self-described fun-loving Republican Party Reptile wrings a whole outraged column out of the Ten Commandments case from the summer of 2003. (Time flies, huh?) It’s part of his general thesis that the true opponents of Republicans are “jerks.” O’Rourke doesn’t seem to like the fact that jerks wouldn’t let Moore install the Ten Commandments in front of a courthouse. Or, maybe he’s just responding to the wailing of jerks when exposed to the Ten Commandments in any capacity, wailing so high-pitched that only hackish conservative pundits can hear it.

Indeed. This is so beneath any acceptable standard of cogence that I'm wondering if somebody posing as O'Rourke astroturfed the Weekly Standard? [And just how would one tell a WS fraud from the genuine article?--ed.]