So Louie Gohmert,
bit of a knucklehead.
[LAUGH] Vast understatement.
But it turns out,
interestingly enough, he knows it.
So he was giving one of his usual
absurd speeches, and
he said something that was weirdly
self aware.
Let's watch.
>> We were doing better on our SATs
until President Carter created
a Department of Education.
When I took it, did very well,
it got me into the honors program
at A&M.
And I'm sure that shocks people
that think I'm the dumbest guy in
Congress, but
yeah part of the honors program.
And that was really nice.
>> [LAUGH] I don't think
you're supposed to admit that.
[LAUGH] >> And guys, I now know
where that came from, and you're
going to see why people call him
that, but mainly we call him that.
One of the things that I took away
from that was,
social media is working.
because on TV nobody calls
him the dumbest member of Congress.
They'd never say that about their
beloved politicians.
Young Turks has called
him that dozens of times.
So, hey, we broke through [LAUGH].
[LAUGH] >> What do you all think?
>> My goodness.
>> Well, first of all- >> Yeah,
go ahead, go ahead, Bridget, sorry.
>> I just want to know who still
brags about their SAT scores when
they're a grown adult person?
>> [LAUGH] That's a good point.
>> Well, Donald Trump is but
he's lying- [CROSSTALK] >> I was
number one at Penn, they're like,
okay, give us your grades.
He's like, no,
they're hidden in a basement.
And if anybody tries to get them I
will do civil plus criminal
penalties.
Okay, well, how about your
high school grades?
Also hidden.
I will also sue you if you try to
get my high school grades.
[LAUGH] Okay, Waz.
>> Yeah, and it's no disrespect to
Texas A&M, but it's not exactly
Harvard or even Vanderbilt, which
they call the Harvard of the south.
It's like it's A&M, it's nice that
you got in, and you got a nice
little scholarship or you got to be
in the honors society, whatever.
But I don't
know that A&M is something to brag
about if we're doing that.
But just the self awareness of, and
I know that'll surprise a bunch of
folks who think I'm the dumbest
person [LAUGH].
That's golden.
He said it so earnestly and
sullenly, it was just perfect,
just perfect.
>> Yeah, by the way,
to be fair to A&M, okay, so
they got Gohmert, right?
But I went to Wharton,
that's supposed to be prestigious.
Trump went to Wharton.
There goes that over, right?
[LAUGH] >> Ted Cruz
went to Princeton.
I mean, I keep going
busting these [INAUDIBLE].
I mean, Bush went to Harvard and
Yale, George W Bush, come on.
All right, so anyways,
I do want to correct the record for
a second.
And then I'll show you how he
earned the title dumbest man
in Congress.
According to statistics
from PrepScholar,
an average American scores for
math and critical writing fell from
521 and 505 in 1974, to 512 and
498 in 1975, four years
before Jimmy Carter, a Democrat,
founded a department of education.
So even the point that he was
making there about if it wasn't for
the Department of Education,
we'd all get better SAT scores.
Not true.
As usual, of course, Gohmert doing
homework to look up when the SAT
scores dipped, inconceivable.
So, this was in the same speech,
just to buttress his claims of
being the dumbest member of
Congress.
He said this.
>> I read last year that one of
the basic goals of BLM was to
destroy western style families.
And I shrug to myself,
western style families?
Those aren't western style
families.
That came from Moses.
>> What?
>> [LAUGH] My God.
[LAUGH] >> What in the world, man?
>> Craig, our stage manager made
such a great point while watching
that video.
He said, well, he
brought receipts to prove how he's
the dumbest member of Congress.
[LAUGH] >> So
look, I don't know how you guys
feel about ruining the western
families that Moses started.
But, hey, look,
that's probably on you guys,
I'm just saying, okay?
>> Well, Cenk, we're black so
we hate families.
>> Of course.
>> I'm going to soon father a child
then abandon it because that's what
we do.
And Bridget of course will be
on crack.
>> Of course.
[LAUGH] >> Of course.
>> [LAUGH] I mean, but look,
I mean, we make fun of it, but
he just said it.
He just said Black Lives Matters is
ruining western style families,
whatever those are, okay?
I mean, and Moses went through
all that effort to set that up.
And [LAUGH] by the way,
Moses was not in the west.
He was in the east,
he started in Egypt, [LAUGH] okay.
But facts are not relevant when
you're talking about Louie Gohmert.
But speaking of the East and
the Middle East and all that,
Gohmert earned the title well
before this speech of course,
with other speeches like this one.
One of my favorites of all time,
let's watch.
>> Thank you
President Barack Hussein Obama.
This will be quite
a legacy for you.
And I'm not one of those who says
he's not a Christian.
All I know is that's between
him and God.
But what I do know is he has helped
jumpstart a new Ottoman Empire, and
left our friend and ally Israel so
vulnerable in this sea
of radicalism that he has
helped bring to the surface.
You look and you go, my gosh,
this is the makings,
this is the beginnings,
a massive beginning of a new
Ottoman Empire that President Obama
can take great credit for.
>> Guys to be fair,
you've seen what the Ottoman Empire
has done since, right?
[LAUGH] >> And they sent a note to
Obama just saying, thanks Obama.
[LAUGH] >> Cenk, I know you
were riled up when you heard
the Ottoman Empire was coming back.
You had to be excited when- Yeah.
>> [INAUDIBLE] bringing that back
to the floor.
>> I was thinking when was I
going to get the notice, man?
I was so bummed that I got it
from Louie.
[LAUGH] >> I thought that I'd get
it before, I'm ready.
Come on, let's do it.
Where are we going, okay?
[LAUGH] >> Gotta send
Obama that thank you note.
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> My lord.
>> But, guys,
this is the Republican party.
That guy gets reelected every two
years, easily, easily.
People in his district in Texas,
they hear speeches like that, and
they're like, we're here for it.
When are the Ottomans coming?
And then they add,
what are Ottomans?
[LAUGH] >> They might not have
Ottomans in that part of Texas.
[LAUGH] >> I feel like why-
>> Either people or the furniture.
>> Yeah, I was going to say why
would we want a war against
foot stools?
And why did Obama bring them back?
[LAUGH] The Ottomans back in
the day, we had this giant empire
last 500 years,
covers like a third of the world.
And all we got out of it was
a foot stool.
[LAUGH] >> That's the one thing you
can name after them.