You know, a lot of us don’t have kids, and yet somehow we instinctively know that Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton needs a timeout … and perhaps a binky. Cotton—who represents such a reliably red state that he could be caught masturbating on the Acela train in a Mayor McCheese costume and not lose any voters—appeared on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer on Tuesday to lob a stunningly misguided attempt to discredit the head of the nation’s largest educators’ union, who spent her weekend campaigning with Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor. Maybe someone needs to sniff Cotton’s diaper, too, because this is a pantload the likes of which no one has ever seen before. Cotton, with his signature dead eyes and syrupy Southern drawl, told Hemmer that people who don’t have children aren’t qualified to educate children. Yes, really. Read more