"Pants-pisser" defined

It is said that a "pants-pisser" is someone so afraid of something that they urinate on themselves. You can easily spot them: They're the people who exaggerate easily identified and understood threats, elevating them to mythic status. They're like a child who overhears a frightening news story on the television and translates that into the boogeyman under the bed or in the closet.

An example of a "pants-pisser" in action will easily illustrate this point. Here's a post by "bowa," on the blog, The Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs:

"I beleive (sic) that Islamo-fascism is as great a threat to the US and the World as Nazism and Communism was last century." Posted by bowa at 2007-11-10 10:21 PM

Paul Krugman does an excellent job of dispelling the whole "Islamofascism" nonsense:

For one thing, there isn’t actually any such thing as Islamofascism — it’s not an ideology; it’s a figment of the neocon imagination. The term came into vogue only because it was a way for Iraq hawks to gloss over the awkward transition from pursuing Osama bin Laden, who attacked America, to Saddam Hussein, who didn’t. And Iran had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11 — in fact, the Iranian regime was quite helpful to the United States when it went after Al Qaeda and its Taliban allies in Afghanistan. (read the entire article)

But more importantly, in the same article Krugman sarcastically answers these "pants-pissers" directly:

Yep, a bunch of lightly armed terrorists ... pose a greater danger than Hitler’s panzers or the Soviet nuclear arsenal ever did. All of this would be funny if it weren’t so serious.

Do you suppose "pants-pissers" like "bowa" understand what Krugman is saying?

Or do they actually enjoy the feeling of urine in their pants?

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