That was not drums you heard. It was my heart beating hard as I wanted to go upstage and kick his girly ass.
Considering this was a national issues, I didn't get why he turned it into an "Indian" thing. That big AIM banner hanging behind the podium, he blathered on a lot about 'community' where he learned his values (an insult to the real bearers of the values of Native Peoples, I assumed, knowing the controversy on that), quoted a tribal elder who taught him what his 'journey' was, his cabal of brain-washed Indian youth(?)... it was just as tacky as could be. What a show.
And most surprising of all, actually shocking, was how poor a speaker he was and how lacking in dignity.
It's my guess he's never been called quite so to account and he's flailing. At least it sounded that way before I changed the channel.....
He seemed to think it was an adequate defense to say "I didn't call the people who worked as service people "little Eichmanns"... just the technicians of our [big bad corporate] society.
Newsflash to Ward! You don't get to call anyone "little Eichmanns".
Blech.