The Conservative Fool Of The Day is...Jay Ambrose!

Jay Ambrose is a columnist who used to be the Washington director of editorial policy for the right-leaning Scripps Howard media empire. (He looks a bit like a certain school principal who I had many negative run-ins with in my day. The resemblance isn't spot-on, but it's there.)

Ambrose attracted ridicule early this year when he wrote an op-ed for the right-wing Boston Herald complaining about the New York Times daring to cover the McCain lobbyist scandal.

Now he's written a piece crying about how political figures supposedly owe oil companies an apology for criticizing their price-gouging.

Ambrose assails both Barack Obama and John McCain because they "ranted" about Big Oil's greed. "Apologize and do it now," Ambrose whimpers.

Aaaaawww, did the poor widdle oil industry have its pwecious widdle feewings hurt?

Well, I'm gonna say it right now: Big Oil practiced price-gouging all year. Still does. Ambrose boasts that gasoline prices are now down to $2 a gallon - but that's much higher than it was before Bush seized power.

And I don't owe the oil industry a fucking thing except a middle finger. It's never getting an apology from me. Never.

Ambrose absurdly claims that the $4 gas prices this summer were caused by the "then-bustling" American economy. You're hilarious, Jay, you know that?

He also grumbles about Obama pledging to tax Big Oil profits to "finance $1,000 giveaway checks to working families."

Heaven forbid corporations (many of which haven't paid a trime in taxes in 10 years) pay taxes to help families who work for a living.

Ambrose says the apology to oil companies from political leaders should be placed "in perfumed envelopes." As populist luminary Jim Hightower likes to say: What a goober.

Jay Ambrose fit Scripps Howard like ass in glove. I used to buy a copy of the Cincinnati Post 6 days a week, and their editorials were nearly as pro-Big Business as Ambrose's incoherent tirade is.

The guy's a conservafool!