Wow! I've read the transcript before, but the extend to which the drunken windbag got owned by Tim Russert isn't so obvious until you see the video. I have NEVER seen a politician so quickly knocked off of his game.

The "Holy crap, that wasn't supposed to happen... what the hell do I say now?" look on his face is priceless.

Best part:

The fact is--and I voted against the war, because every military--I'm in the Armed Srvices Committee, and every military leader highly decorated, military leader, said that it was foolish to have a military intervention at that. General Hoar, with the Marines--General Hoar, who has more Silver Stars than you could possibly count said if we go into Baghdad, it'll look like the last five minutes of "Private Ryan," so we know we had enough information to vote against it, I believe.

1. Who knows what he's babbling about with that bit about every military leader and the fact he's on the SAS Committee?

2. General "More Silver Stars than you could possibly count" Hoar is quite the prophet (as well as probably being related to Kim Jong Il). That last push into Baghdad was maybe closer to taking a joyride with the senator behind the wheel in terms of participant death rate than the last five minutes of Private Ryan.

3. If Democrats had enough information to vote against it, then a) why did Kerry vote for it and b) how did President Bush deprive them of enough information to make an informed choice?

Is it just me or would Ted make a good Charlie "the Silver Fox" Rich impersonator? He wouldn't even have to cut back on his Wild Turkey consumption.

Yeah, this is clearly the beginning of the end of the "Bush lied" idiocy.

That last push into Baghdad was maybe closer to taking a joyride with the senator behind the wheel in terms of participant death rate than the last five minutes of Private Ryan.

Well, for the US forces, anyhow. I'm sure the folks who were trying to stop them found it more akin to the Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan, minus the bit where they win in the end. My follow up remark to The Swimmer would have been, "However many Silver Stars he has, he was wrong about how the attack on Baghdad went."

I don't see them giving up the "Bush lied" mantra anytime soon. It's the cornerstone of the leftist extremist/Deaniac cult. They won't let something as trival as actual facts sway their belief system.

I don't remember anyone getting killed in the last 5 minutes of that movie. Perhaps in the director's cut some Tunisian kids from the local banlieu set fire to Geezer Ryan's hot granddaughters while he's making his wife tell him he's been a good man?

Ted kennedy still trying to prove he is aoutta his mind

Jesus!
Talk about the old keister clench.
You can almost hear the sloshing and clicking coming from inside that huge mushy melon.
You know he chewed someone's ass royally after that one. Probably a 22 year old female intern who had nothing to do with keeping the old fart's lies straight. But hey, make a Kennedy look bad, somebody must pay, right?
Lying fuck.

"You know he chewed someone's ass royally after that one. Probably a 22 year old female intern who had nothing to do with keeping the old fart's lies straight."

My advice to her would be, don't accept any offers of a car ride with the good Senator.

My follow up remark to The Swimmer would have been, "However many Silver Stars he has, he was wrong about how the attack on Baghdad went."

"The Swimmer." Heh.

I don't remember anyone getting killed in the last 5 minutes of that movie.

Teddy always gets his war flix wrong. Perhaps he was thinking of A Bridge Too Far.

FWIW I don't think anyone got killed in the last 5 mnutes of A Bridge Too Far either.

Von Ryan's Express maybe?

"FWIW I don't think anyone got killed in the last 5 mnutes of A Bridge Too Far either."

Sorry, it was my lame allusion to Mary Jo Kopechne's last car ride with Senator Good Times.

The bloated Ichthyus oldsmobilus probably meant the first five minutes of Private Ryan, when the soldiers were getting chewed to bits by bullets and shrapnel.

Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.