Noel Sheppard, it seems, is unable to differentiate between fantasy and reality. How else to explain his insistence on referring to an actor using the role he played 40 years ago?
A Nov. 1 NewsBusters post by Sheppard carries the headline “Rob Reiner aka Meathead: Hillary Would Be ‘Most Qualified Person Ever to Run for President’.” In it, Sheppard whines that Reiner, “aka Meathead in the famed sitcom All in the Family,” called Hillary Clinton “the single most qualified person ever to run for President of the United States” if she chooses to do so. Sheppard then rants:
Because Hillary was senator for eight years and Secretary of State for four, she’s the most qualified person EVER to run for president of our country?
More qualified than George Washington who led our troops to victory against the British?
More qualified than Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
More qualified than John Adams who was a pivotal figure in achieving our independence?
More qualified than Abraham Lincoln? And Franklin Delano Roosevelt? And Ronald Reagan?
Would any of these Hillary supporters be so gushing if she were a man with the exact same qualifications?
Of course not.
Much as these people championed Barack Obama despite his lack of qualifications, Hillary is the left’s current ideal not because of what she’s done, but for what she represents.
No wonder Archie Bunker referred to this idiot as Meathead.
But Sheppard wasn’t done confusing the actor with his long-ago role. In a Nov. 2 post, in which he places “Rob Reiner aka Meathead” again in the headline, Sheppard gripes that Reiner, “made famous by his role as Meathead in the legendary sitcom All in the Family,” said something else he didn’t like.
Sheppard doesn’t mention that Reiner’s “All in the Family” character had a real name, or that Reiner has produced and directed several hit movies. As far as Sheppard is concerned, the only thing of any note Reiner has ever done is play a character named Meathead.
Of course, Sheppard is a guy who’s continually surprised by the non-surprising and just can’t stop using anti-Semitic images in his blog posts, so perhaps it’s not surprising that his grasp on reality is a bit tenuous.
And that makes Sheppard a bigger meathead than he accuses Reiner of being.