Today’s Daily Schadenfreude: Allen West

This is terrific.

Allen West, the crazed wingnut challenging Rep. Ron Klein (D-Fla.) in my own district, Florida’s 22nd, was named Worst Person in the World by Keith Olbermann on his Countdown show on MSNBC yesterday. Click on this image to view the video (unfortunately, it can’t be embedded):

For the video-challenged among you, here’s a transcript of the pertinent part:

And our winner, Florida Republican congressional hopeful, retired Army lieutenant colonel Allen West.

A guest booker from a TV network tried to get him to come on a show and talk about the increase of violence in Afghanistan. But since West had not been to Afghanistan in eight months, he saw through their smokescreen … he knew what they were really planning on doing: kidnapping him.

[Said West,] “My B.S. flag really went up when they said they wanted my address to pick me up at night.” The network which asked him to come on? Al-Jazeera. “I was not about to be a puppet,” he says, for a network, quote, “which has helped torment our men and women in uniform.”

Col. West evidently does not know that past guests of Al-Jazeera include Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff and some guy named John McCain.

We have no idea if Col. West has won any medals for paranoia.

Republican Florida congressional candidate Allen “A TV Network Plans to Kidnap Me” West: today’s Worst Person in the World!

Well, of course, West has virtually no chance to defeat Ron Klein in November. But, at least now we know that if he somehow managed the colossal upset, he would have plenty of company with all the other batshit crazy Republicans in Congress.

And, Col. West, beside your Worst Person in the World award on your mantel, you can add one more honor … because today’s Blast Off! Daily Schadenfreude is for you!