It is only a mere moment away, on a slow news Friday, before Hayward joins these two in preciously “tsk-tsking” — that a gay black man might suggest that Ex-Gov. Haley is “past prime-time” (to the political goals of this far-right dominated GOP) AS A POLITICAL candidate — in any White House GOP nomination scenario, because she is WAY TOO far left of where her “party” now stands… post the lunatics’ takeover engineered mostly by Tangerine, but to a significant degree, with these guys’ explicit help and backing.

The GOP is nearly a fascists’ playground now — and she was the center… before. Now, she is a far left as one can get, and still say the word “Republican” — as a membership badge.

That is what Lemon meant, no doubt. Even so, he promptly and sincerely apologized if anyone misunderstood him to be speaking of her physical appearances, or her… age (wilfully misconstruing the word used — “prime” — to mean beyond child-bearing age). That is not what the remark meant, in context — but these guys are now the self-appointed, would-be GOP social justice warriors’ outrage crew.

As I say… that’s precious.

Over the weekend, Hinderaker explicitly called her a “plaything” — “fun“, for the GOP. In context, too (if we are to let Johnson and Hinderaker attack Lemon on the spurious basis they have, then “what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander, too…” here, John!).

The brand that was Powerline… lost the last shred of its legitimacy, when Hayward simply executed Mirengoff last year, under the cover of night — but in public. He just took him out in the square, and shot him — for (gasp!) disagreeing with Hayward’s take on a particularly inane matter. Like whether a remark was… misunderstood. [It might mean that Hayward has put most of the cash into keeping Powerline running these last years, now that he is the one primarily shilling for donations, for a complete site revamp… but that’s speculation for another day.]

Yes, Hayward sent Mr. Paul Mirengoff (his writing partner — of over 20 years!) to the gulag of eternal internal exile… for expressing a dissenters’ view — politely so.

Yeh — these decidedly mediocre, self-unaware, embittered old whyte farts are hilarious, if nothing else.

And… increasingly, they are… nothing else.