Rachel for the win, again
Jan. 7th, 2009 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drpaisleyMy new favorite lesbian crush, Rachel Maddow, just noted that Sen. Harry Reid expressed his feelings that former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) should not go to prison for his conviction on seven counts of concealing illegal contributions, given that Stevens was a "war hero" in WWII[1] and that "this was a different world, and Sen. Stevens didn't understand that" (all quotes approximate, from memory, but pretty damn close).
Rachel then quoted Sen. Stevens from a phone call that the feds taped a couple of years ago, in which Stevens told a representative of the oil company indicted for making the illegal contributions "They won't shoot us, this isn't Iraq . . . The worst that happens is, we pay a little fine and do a little jail time." So much for that "didn't understand thing.
Rachel then looked at the camera and said, "You know, these people work for us. We pay their salaries. Maybe they should set up a commitee or a search party to find the dignity that supposed to go with the office."
Awesome.
Bonus Maddowism "Cheese should never be in a drink. Never."
[1] There seems to be this idea going around that the simple fact of serving in the military during time of war (for values of war) automatically makes one "a hero." This seems to me to redefine the bar so low as to remove any meaning from the term "hero." To me, merely serving in the military (or any of its adjuncts, like the National Guard) is not heroic for any reasonable value of the term. To diminish the actions of true heroes in this way would be to render equivalent the service of, oh, say, John Kerry and George W. Bush.
Rachel then quoted Sen. Stevens from a phone call that the feds taped a couple of years ago, in which Stevens told a representative of the oil company indicted for making the illegal contributions "They won't shoot us, this isn't Iraq . . . The worst that happens is, we pay a little fine and do a little jail time." So much for that "didn't understand thing.
Rachel then looked at the camera and said, "You know, these people work for us. We pay their salaries. Maybe they should set up a commitee or a search party to find the dignity that supposed to go with the office."
Awesome.
Bonus Maddowism "Cheese should never be in a drink. Never."
[1] There seems to be this idea going around that the simple fact of serving in the military during time of war (for values of war) automatically makes one "a hero." This seems to me to redefine the bar so low as to remove any meaning from the term "hero." To me, merely serving in the military (or any of its adjuncts, like the National Guard) is not heroic for any reasonable value of the term. To diminish the actions of true heroes in this way would be to render equivalent the service of, oh, say, John Kerry and George W. Bush.