Fox News has a story about a 13-year-old kid who posted a YouTube video criticizing President Obama’s decision to invite Ahmed Mohamed to the White House (h/t Tim). It pretty much covers all the usual points: why is the president taking an active stand on this issue and not on [other, possibly-unrelated issue]??? Even at its best, it’s not a very good argument. In this case, the kid mentioned the president’s purported silence about Kate Steinle and “cops…being gunned down,” even though the second point is decidedly not true, and neither point is relevant to Ahmed Mohamed’s story.

I’m not going to get too worked up about this, though, because this kid is 13 years old. The real question is why Fox News seems to be giving him so much of a platform.

See, this is not the first time conservatives have rallied around a teenager who said things they wanted to hear. Wonkette reported on young conservative darling Jonathan Krohn a few years ago:

We all remember where we were on Feburary 27, 2009 when 13-year-old Jonathan Krohn addressed the throngs of CPACers, spitting the hot fires of oppression and demanding the instant restoration of the Old Guard. Where were you? Your Wonkette, for one, was typing a blog post about his CPAC speech. It was clear that young Jonathan would have a lifetime supply of wingnut welfare cash to support him and his eventual horribly dysfunctional conservative family. By 2011, he’d already released a book — a “remarkably earnest and impeccably reasoned primer” on “Conservative philosophy’s basic tenets” that somehow managed to exceed two pages in length. What a future!

Then something strange happened…the kid grew up a bit:

But now, as Politico reports, Jonathan Krohn is a much wiser man of 17 years and basically despises conservatism.

Krohn now wonders, like the rest of us, why a bunch of adults were cheering for the ideas of a 13-year-old kid who obviously didn’t know what he was doing.

Krohn said it best himself in his interview with Politico:

“Come on, I was thirteen,” he said. “I was thirteen.”

Maybe conservatives will have better luck with this new kid—who, I should note, has only been on Fox & Friends so far, which is hardly a CPAC gig. I’m not holding my breath for them to figure out that 13 year-olds might not be the best spokespeople.

UPDATE (9/26/2016): He’s actually had quite a few more media appearances than I thought.