A Real Head Scratcher

Some three months back I posted this post about a confrontation on Crossfire over twenty years ago between Frank Zappa, Robert Novak, Tom Braden, and a Washington Times columnist named John Lofton. It was for me a major piece of nostalgia (Zappa to me is still an amazing person), and an eerie foreshadowing of the direction our government has gone in since then. The comment by Zappa on the "fascist theocracy" was particularly apt.

During the show, the guy who seems to get most rabid about the need to censor rock music (and most obnoxious towards Zappa) was Lofton. He virtually has smoke coming our of his ears, and at one point calls Zappa an idiot, to which Zappa suggests that Lofton kiss his ass. Not a particularly lofty retort, but Lofton had been such a dolt that it was a well deserved rejoinder.

Well today, three months later, I received this comment on the post:

John Lofton said...
As I watched Zappa try to think, I was reminded of the United Negro College Fund slogan: "A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste." I was Godzilla; Zappa was Bambi. It was no contest. He never had a chance. Imagine -- a song writer denigrating the importance of words! Weird! John Lofton (JLof@erols.com).

Now at first I thought this was a joke, as I couldn't imagine that Lofton would take the time to seek out my little blog, apparently searching out his own name to see what was being said about him, and then take the time to write a comment to this post. But after checking out the email on the site Lofton now writes for (it's the same), and tracking the fact that someone at the site instituteontheconstitution.com (his outfit) actually did cruise my site today, I can assume that he actually did write the comment.

I find this is astounding for a couple of reasons, the first of which is his utter delusion he labors under in this that HE kicked Zappa's butt in the discussion, instead of the other way around. Go back and watch the video and see what you think. The other thing, which is actually fairly pathetic, is that this dude is apparently spending time doing searches on his name, checking out what people are saying about him (even in a humble little blog like this), and then responding to them.

I mean, it's sad enough that he drank the Kool Aid at The Washington Times for a chunk of his life, but to spend his days searching the internet and finding a three month old reference to a decades old debate worth commenting on is---well, even sadder.