Nate Silver interviewed John Ziegler, the wingnut who commissioned that falsehood-based poll purporting to demonstrate that Obama voters were stooopid. Silver's questions, as you can see, are perfectly normal and reasonable, but Ziegler completely loses it. By the end, he's doing a Cheney.It starts to go downhill when Silver, who know a wee bit about polling, asks a perfectly reasonable question:NS: Why would you commission a survey question with no correct response? JZ: The purpose of the question, you pinhead, was we wanted to determine the Tina Fey Effect.In short order, Ziegler starts attacking Silver over the phone:NS: Where the interviews conducted by telephone or online? JZ: How can you ask a question like that and pretend that you have any clue what you're writing about! That's unbelievable that someone could write what you did! That is unbelievable that you wouldn't know that it's a telephone or an online poll and that you went on my summaries of the questions before the questions were even released!NS: We’ve heard reports from our readers that very similar questions had been asked in an online format. There was no online component at all? JZ: That is correct, which you would have known if you had looked at the information. Before you called this a push poll -- you don't seem to know the definition of a push poll. How do you have this website?NS: What did Zogby charge you -- what did you pay for this survey? JZ: I'm not going to tell you that, I'm not a fucking idiot.By the end, Ziegler is simply hostile -- not to mention thoroughly convinced that his bullshit don't stink:NS: Who paid for it? JZ: You think I'm going to tell you that? When you've already shown yourself to be the enemy?NS: Was it paid for by the RNC? JZ: . In your world, the question that I would ask you is what question is there any ambiguity as to what the answer is?NS: Well, that Obama 'launched his career' at the home of two former members of the Weather...