Terrible Congressman Comically Screws Up His Precious Pledge Of Allegiance

 This one is abeauty.Congressman Todd Akin, speaking before the Bachmaniacs at the Super Bowl of Retardation, delivers a glib lecture about the Pledge of Allegiance, its history, and its awesome inclusion of "Under God." He asks the crowd to join him in the Pledge, because it "drives the liberals crazy." And then he screws it up.

The stumbling and awkward muttering between 1: 59 and 2:02 is a comical gift from Allah. But Allah is a generous deity and has many, many treasures -- like this, the Akin office's official response:

Akin spokesman Steve Taylor said the congressman acknowledges having had “a little bit of a Justice Roberts type of moment,” blaming it on “a little echo of the speakers.”

“It is not a problem with knowledge or understanding,” Taylor said. “Everyone at some point in their life will have some difficulty with execution or elocution.”

Maybe, but usuallynotafter bragging for two minutes, before a crowd of thousands, on Capitol Hill, about how well you know it and how much you love it, five years after you "proposed the Pledge Protection Act to keep federal courts from ruling on its constitutionality."

 Rep. Todd Akin's Pledge botch [Politico]