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“‘What went wrong?’ is the question with which the eminent scholar Bernard Lewis titles his book about the intellectual history of the Muslim Middle East. How had the once-wealthy and all-conquering Muslim world been overtaken by the despised Christian West? Al Franken's Lies can be read as one Democrat's attempt to grapple with an analogous problem. Unfortunately, like the enraged Muslims whom we meet in Lewis's book, Franken repudiates both self-examination and self criticism. It is all somebody else's fault. The faithful have nothing to learn from anybody. The solution to their problems is not reform, and it is certainly not self-criticism. It is a return to the fundamentals of the faith—and war against the unbelievers.”
 — David Frum, from his review of "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them"

The appropriateness of Mr. Frum's remarks vis a vis the freshly-certified clownish Senator from Minnesota does not preclude the observation that the irrationality personified by this clown from Minnesota is, to a lesser or even greater extent, ubiquitous — repudiation of personal accountability.