By now we could all use some comic relief, so let’s turn to the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign. At an event held Tuesday night at Tony’s on New York’s Upper East Side, a guest asked the enviromoonbatty RFK about the environment. The New York Post takes it from there:

[I]t seems that the mere inquiry was enough to set off apparently drunk gossip columnist-turned-flack Doug Dechert, the host of the event, who became enraged and screamed at the top of his lungs: “The climate hoax!”

Meanwhile, octogenarian art critic Anthony Haden-Guest, who appeared to have been sleeping happily for most of the dinner, was roused by the abrupt rumpus.

Anthony Haden-Hyphen-Guest has written for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair

He suddenly opened his eyes and denounced his longtime pal Dechert, calling him a “miserable blob.”

The situation escalated, with Dechert pooh-poohing the global warming hoax and Hyphen-Guest croaking insults in response, until…

…Dechert sensed the need for a new rhetorical tack, and let rip a loud, prolonged fart while yelling, as if to underscore his point, “I’m farting!”

The room, which included a handful of journalists as well as Kennedy’s campaign manager, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, was stunned, seemingly unsure about whether Dechert was farting at Haden-Guest personally or at the very notion of global warming.

If the latter, you can’t fault Dechert for the sentiment.

Don’t get the idea he isn’t a gentleman:

When asked to comment about his, er, outburst the next day, Dechert told us: “I apologize for using my flatulence as a medium of public commentary in your presence.”

Unfortunately, there is not much chance that a President RFK Jr. would give Dechert John Kerry’s job.

On a tip from Stormfax.

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