Though this new competition was introduced especially for the Pyeongchang Games, it has many historical antecedents, which I shall get to in a moment. For now, the current field of play is the media’s fawning coverage of Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who has become the media’s belle of the ball. As a CNN headline put it, she is “stealing the show” at the Winter Olympics.

The Zucker News Network, vying for the gold, trilled about Kim’s ability to offer “a smile, a handshake and a warm message” to fellow attendees. And CNN didn’t stop there: “If ‘diplomatic dance’ were an event at the Winter Olympics,” it added, “Kim Jong Un’s younger sister would be favored to win gold.”

Let me introduce you to this year’s Gold Medalist for Morally Bankrupt Murderous Tyrant Bootlicking: Jeet Heer of The New Republic. Heer tweeted on February 10: “Do you realize how massively you have to fuck up so that Kim Jong Un’s family looks good by comparison?  But Trump & Pence have pulled it off.”
So there you have it: Pence, and, of course, Trump, are worse than the murderous North Korean regime. Heer’s tweet was not only cretinous about Pence, but cruel to the millions of victims of North Korean communism—including the 36,000 Americans who died in the Korean War.

Caught in his act of idiocy, Heer responded by deleting the tweet and then following up with a 16-part thread of twitter bluster, in which he accused his critics of being “willfully obtuse.” In other words, it was their fault for not understanding his genius. Congrats on winning the gold, Mr. Heer. Please be sure to use Little Rocket Man’s flag and anthem at the medal ceremony.