• Sections
  • Newsletters
  • Podcasts
  • Support TPM
  • Shop Merch
  • Site Info
  • About
  • Sections
  • Editors' Blog
  • News
  • Live Blog
  • Cafe
  • Muckraker
  • Morning Memo
  • Where Things Stand
  • The Weekender
  • The Franchise
  • Features
  • Support TPM
  • Memberships
  • The TPM Journalism Fund
  • Site Info
  • FAQ
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Site Status
  • About
  • About TPM
  • Mission
  • Masthead
  • Financials
  • Careers
  • Pitch Us
Follow TPM
© 2026 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Talking Points Memo Logo
Send Tips TPM 25th Anniversary Badge
Editors' Blog

Really Stupid People

by Josh Marshall
04.02.15 | 12:17 pm

It’s amazing watching a one-noter like Tom Cotton try to turn every issue back to Iran and our need to blow up Iran and rebuild it as an annex of the American Enterprise Institute. Cotton told Wolf Blitzer that whatever is happening to gays and lesbians in Arkansas, at least they don’t “hang you for the crime of being gay” like they do in Iran.

Send Tips
Josh Marshall is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TPM.
LATEST
Where Things Stand
Red States and Blue States (But Mostly Blue States) Are Not Safe From Trump’s Retribution, Says Vance
05.13.26 | 6:40 pm
News
Black People Worse Off in Trump’s Economy Than Every Other Group, Per the Fed
05.13.26 | 4:49 pm
News
A Noncitizen Says She Was Told She Could Vote. Then Customs Detained Her at the Airport and Threatened to Deport Her.
05.13.26 | 11:07 am
Morning Memo
Abrego Garcia Judge Upbraids Trump DOJ
05.13.26 | 11:05 am
Talking Points Memo
© 2026 TPM MEDIA LLC.
Masthead Contact Privacy Policy
  • About
  • Memberships
  • Careers
  • Advertise
  • Site Status
  • FAQ
  • Newsletters
  • Pitch Us
  • Terms of Use
  • CCPA Notice