Getting Lapped

A few days ago I read and enjoyed this post by Hendrik Hertzberg on the whole pathetic Cordoba House rattling, specifically, the strained attempts to equate the New York City project with the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz.  I particularly liked this turn of phrase (links in original):

To demand that an Islamic cultural center run by Muslims opposed to terrorism not be built two blocks from the WTC site is like demanding that a Unitarian church not be built two blocks from an abortion clinic bombed by the “Christian” murderer of the late Dr. George Tiller.

Today I read Edroso's Monday column at the Village Voice and found this (link and ellipses in original):

And, oh Jesus, when they got into the thought experiments... prominent rightwing screamery Town Hall riddled us this: "Would President Obama speak out in support of a minister... if a self-identified 'moderate' Christian sought to erect a giant church at, say, a site where radicals claiming to be Christians had murdered 3000 abortion clinic doctors, so long as the construction was done in 'accordance with local laws and ordinances'?" There's only one possible response to this kind of argument: Huh?

I never liked the Peak Wingnut concept; I thought it was misplaced.  But we're at a special place when the efforts of smart, creative people to satirize right-wing screeching with exaggerated, absurd, yet logically consistent overstatements of kooky positions get lapped by the kooky positions themselves.