Top Politico columnist: Rick Perry sending National Guard to shoot small children at border

The Politico, which Dan likes to call "the worst website in the world" has a long history of employing kooks, cranks, and left-wing loons. No one really bothers to accuse them of bias anymore, since their predilections are so painfully obvious.

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Still, it's always fun when one of their star reporters pipes up with something utterly ridiculous. Enter Roger Simon. Simon bills himself as "Chief Political Columnist for Politico: Sometimes in error, but never in doubt." Though, after his post on Twitter last night, he may want to rethink the "sometimes" part. According to the AP, nothing could be further from the truth. Basically, the 1,000 guardsmen Perry is sending to the border will only be there to support security efforts.

Perry, a vocal critic of the White House's response to the border crisis -- and who is mulling a second presidential run in 2016 -- said the state has a responsibility to act after "lip service" from the federal government. He rejected suggestions that Texas was militarizing local communities by putting National Guard troops on the ground or that crime data along the border doesn't justify additional resources. The deployment will cost Texas an estimated $12 million a month. Texas Adjutant General John Nichols said his troops would simply be "referring and deterring" immigrants and not detaining people -- though Nichols said the National Guard could if asked.

We're not sure how a writer for the "worst website in the world" managed to warp "refer and deter" into "shoot small children" but, if this is how his mind works, you'd be wise to disregard his writing in the future. Considering how he's willfully disregarding reality here, we'd say he has a little "cognitive dissonance" problem that he needs to work on. Congratulations, Politico, by employing someone like this, you've once again offered the world evidence of your all-consuming left-wing bias. Well done.