There’s a new feelgood summer movie just released: Cotton Comes To Denmark.

Over at Talking Points Memo, Summer Concepcion points us to this account from talkbusiness.net in which Senator Tom Cotton, the bobble-throated slapdick from Arkansas, takes credit for being the first to raise the looney-tunes notion of buying Greenland from Denmark.

Read the rest of Charlie Pierce’s story at Esquire.