David Dewhurst is the lieutenant governor of Texas. Lieutenant is such an emasculating word! He'd rather be a commandante, the kind who'll take care of those prayer rugs ISIS illegals are leaving on the Mexican border, which totally exist and weren't debunked by yours truly two months ago.

Via TPM:

Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R) warned that "prayer rugs" have been found on the Texas side of the Mexican-Texas border and suggested that states have both an obligation and a right to act independently of the government on border security.

"Prayer rugs have recently been found on the Texas side of the border in the brush," Dewhurst said during a speech Friday at the Values Voter Summit, echoing a claim reported on Breitbart...

Yes, a claim on Breitbart, which has really gone above and beyond in its cultural verminization of non-U.S. immigrants this year. But the Breitbart claim is important, because it came with eyewitness quotes and a photograph of said prayer rug. Solid evidence. Very solid.

So solid, in fact, I parsed this evidence back in July:

1. Here we see a waist hemline on the Muslim prayer rug.

2. This would be a sleeve opening on the Muslim prayer rug, just above the diamond-hatch red-and-white pattern so popular among lower-tier football clubs and militant Muslim prayer-rug salesmen.

3. Islamic scholars and Arsenal fans will immediately recognize "die marke mit den 3 streifen" here on the Muslim prayer rug.

Clearly, values voters don't value truth so much.

Let's pretend for a moment that Dewhurst—and fellow Colorado Republican lunatic also-ran Tom Tancredo—weren't parroting absurd xenophobic lies that had been publicly and demonstrably proven false less than 100 days ago. Let's fantasize that they had, in fact, clear proof of the existence of a "prayer rug" on the Mexican border.

Now, what could be the significance of a prayer rug found on the Mexican border? Christians and Jews don't use 'em! But we've all seen movies where Muslims do their kneeling-to-Mecca jihad thing. So, clearly, these are jihadis stopping on their over-the-unsecured-border treks, doing their ablutions and prayers, and of course leaving the evidence, because that's what terrorist masterminds do.

But hey, that's not completely insane. Not compared to the other lies Breitbart's "prayer rug" sources had pooped into the toilet of Inner America's id back in that July report:

The same contractor told Breitbart News last week that six Special Interest Aliens (SIA's) from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen were picked up by U.S. border patrol near Laredo, Texas. Each one had 60,000 Iraqi Dinars ($51.00) apiece on them.

Seriously, there are ambitious politicians in America helping to run some of our largest states who buy into conspiracies like the Glorious Jihad of the Six Guys Who Were Just Here, Really, and Totally Had Like 51 Bucks in Iraqi Play-Money on Them. It's still amazing to me that these dim fuggles will buy that, but the idea of manmade global warming is just crazy, man.

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