Our own Senator Jim Webb (D-VA), who continues to earn <3 from me, and Bush yes-man Lindsey Graham apparently got into a plenty heated discussion about Iraq on NBC's "Meet the Press" today. It looks like old Graham Cracker got crumbled a bit on the issue, and I'm glad - Senator Graham pisses ME off plenty of times, and I'm several degrees of separation further from Iraq than Senator Webb is. The video is here, (you might have to do a little bit of clicking, I'm not sure how to link directly to the video - there are several for your enjoyment).
Update: Ahh, here's the video of the exchange the article mentions. Yowza!
Comments (7)
I can't say I enjoyed watching that yesterday. I thought it was awful and played to every negative political stereotype out there.
Timmeh had no control of the situation, Webb tries to remain calm, and Graham just keeps repeating stale old talking points. Yet in the end I didn't think anyone "won".
Frankly this crap serves no one at the end of the day.
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July 16, 2007 9:09 AM
Posted on July 16, 2007 09:09
Jim Webb is a little crazy, but at least he doesn't have a girl's name. Superman dat hoe!
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July 16, 2007 10:48 AM
Posted on July 16, 2007 10:48
I like crazy
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July 16, 2007 11:15 AM
Posted on July 16, 2007 11:15
I'm with Jules on this one. It really got out of control, Graham and Webb just talking over each other.
MTP is usually a lot more civilized; This segment reminded me of Crossfire on a bad day.
Bob Roche
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July 16, 2007 11:19 AM
Posted on July 16, 2007 11:19
My favorite Jim Webb quote (from one of his novels):
– Something to Die For: “[Fogarty] has been thinking of the firm, springy skin and the sweet smells of a young Filipina woman named Maria in whose bed he had spent three nights almost twenty years ago. . . . She was a deliciously bad young woman. . . . On the second night, he had brought her a box of Godiva chocolates . . . . he had awakened to find her in the bathroom, sitting on the toilet with her knees underneath her chin, eating chocolates and counting her rosary beads as she prayed.”
William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY 1991, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 32.
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July 16, 2007 11:29 AM
Posted on July 16, 2007 11:29
Well, I agree that Russert ought to have stepped in at some point. But really, if it's a choice between letting Graham Cracker's BS go unchallenged or tossing civility to the winds, Angry Benson endorses the latter :-) (This is one of many reasons AB will never be on MtP.)
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July 17, 2007 7:59 AM
Posted on July 17, 2007 07:59
I just listened to the MTP podcast this afternoon, and I thought Webb sounded like a jerk. He kept getting huffy with Graham anytime Graham made a peep while Webb was talking, ("Excuse me, my friend, excuuuuuse me, let me finish,"), and bam, one minute later he is interrupting Graham left and right, willy-nilly, like some drunk at a bar. Bah.
Maybe it's just that I don't like his voice.
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July 18, 2007 8:33 PM
Posted on July 18, 2007 20:33