This is infuriating, I warn you: Watch in horror as Anderson Cooper takes this Islamaphobic hillbilly—her name is Renee Ellmers and she is running for Congress on the Republican ticket in North Carolina—to task over her incendiary political ad. At about 4:45 seconds in he just can’t take it anymore. It gets more painful from there.

Ellmers claims that the people in her district are “very concerned” about the “Muslim victory mosque” being built on “hallowed ground” and all that Republican talking points bullshit. I’d imagine that many, if not MOST of the people living in her district, care much more about unemployment, the economy, taxes, keeping a roof over their heads, insurance premiums, underwater mortgages, elder care costs, roads, and many other matters, than they do about an Islamic cultural center being built in a former Burlington Coat Factory store that is two *New York City* blocks away from the site of the former World Trade Center (and down the street from popular topless bar, New York Dolls). Even Fox News has gone cold on the “Ground Zero Mosque” bullshit, but this dumbass thinks beating this dead horse is going to get her elected?

Clearly, Renee Ellmers doesn’t know anything about.. anything as she cheerfully admits over and over and over again. Like Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, Ted Miller and Sharron Angle, this woman takes SMUG PRIDE IN HER OWN IGNORANCE. The Republicans in NC’s District 2 could not find anyone—not one single person with an IQ higher than a bag of wet hair—to run instead of this ignoramus? Obviously not!

THIS IS WHAT AMERICA IS BECOMING. BE AFRAID. BE VERY, VERY AFRAID.