Editorial: There’s stupid & there’s super stupid

Column By Mike Bibb

“Accident” is what the Democratic Mississippi Congressman called the murder of a National Guard woman and the wounding of another. The assassin willfully shot the two soldiers in the head at close range.

The 20-year-old woman died, and the male soldier is still recovering in the hospital. Thompson’s “accident” occurred in Washington, D.C., as guard personnel patrolled the area.

Actually, Thompson referred to the incident as an “unfortunate accident,” to be more specific.

I don’t know Mr. Thompson or his views on politics, other than he’s a Democrat.  Consequently, I assume he repeats the Democrat line on whatever the subject is.

However, to express his opinion of the intentional murder of a National Guard female soldier as being an “accident” redefines the dictionary definition of the word “stupid” — “Lacking normal intelligence,” Websters New World Dictionary.

Obviously, there was nothing normal about Rep. Thompson’s comment — it was beyond stupid. He said what he said, and there’s no sugar coating it.

During a TV interview the next day, he tried to walk back his boneheaded remark by implying he was attempting to describe a different situation. That, somehow, his words were tangled in confusion, and he really didn’t mean to say the shooting of the two soldiers was accidental.

Yet, he specifically said the killing was an “unfortunate accident.” He did not say it was an “unfortunate murder.”

Keep in mind the soldiers were shot with a pistol on Nov. 26, over two weeks before Thompson made his asinine remarks before Congress. He had plenty of time to prepare his commentary and make sure the facts were straight.

The shooter randomly fired multiple rounds during the melee until specifically approaching and targeting the two guards.

Another Guardsman eventually shot and wounded the attacker, stopping him from inflicting further harm.

The armed assault was no accident. The soldiers were intentionally selected and shot in the head by a crazed Afghan gunman who had entered the country a few years prior.

Actually, his arrival was during the Biden Administration’s equally absurd “Open Borders” policy. Trump was not in office.

If there’s a co-conspirator in this mess, Joe Biden is the likely suspect. However, similar to many of his errors, Joe probably had no idea what was happening, or when it was happening, or while it was happening.

After all, Joe’s been described by certain government officials as “an old man with a poor memory.”

Which, unfortunately, is true — and maybe was true before he became President. Joe has never shown any indication that he was the sharpest knife in the drawer. He worked for the government nearly his entire adult life because that was about all he was qualified to do.

Whether Mr. Thompson mistakenly characterized the shooting occurrence as being an “accident” or a slip of the tongue, the fact remains he said it, and it’s forever recorded on videotape and entered into Congressional records.

Interestingly, if a Republican Congress Member had uttered the same exact words, I’m confident he/she would have already been placed under FBI investigation.

But, since the dude is a Democrat, it’s just another day at the office. Shake it off, there are bigger fish to fry.

Besides, any allegations against Mr. Thompson might be construed as being “racist,” since he’s a black Congressman from Mississippi.

Then, there’s the possibility that before the controversy subsides, Dems may twist the scenario into being something deliberately conceived and perpetrated by Trump.

I can see the media’s contorted reaction — “President Trump intentionally hits two spectators with a wayward golf ball. Claims it was an accident. Congress considers impeachment. Again!”

A 20-20 hindsight makes it perfectly clear Forrest Gump was right all along — “Stupid is as stupid does.”