Posted on 10/06/2005 2:44:34 AM PDT by rabair
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HARDBALL HOST: Dr. Dean, were you surprised by the nomination of Harriet Miers to be a member of the United States Supreme Court?
HOWARD DEAN, CHAIRMAN, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE: I was surprised. I'm like most every other American, including the ones in Washington. We know almost nothing about her. And we have a lot of questions to be answered before she gets a lifetime appointment.
MATTHEWS: Would you have ever thought of her as a possible court nominee?
DEAN: No. You know, she's a person who's very much below the radar screen as the president's legal counsel. But there's a lot of questions. I do think the president should make sure the Senate knows about her positions that she took while she was the president's legal counsel because it's the only documentation that we're going to have about what she believes.
MATTHEWS: Do you believe that the president can claim executive privilege?
DEAN: Well, certainly the president can claim executive privilege. But in the this case, I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called. He's got to go out there and say something about this woman who's going to a 20 or 30-year appointment, a 20 or 30-year appointment to influence America. We deserve to know something about her.
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ROTF! Well, darn. Now I'm never gonna be able to look at Howie again and keep a straight face!
Does he let loose a Meth overdose Tarzan scream in the interview?
I would watch it but MSNBC requires that I launch it from IE 6, which is complete BS. None the less, I'm sure this has legs.
No...... just calm cool and perverted.
DEAN: Well, certainly the president can claim executive privilege. But in the this case, I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called. He's got to go out there and say something about this woman who's going to a 20 or 30-year appointment, a 20 or 30-year appointment to influence America. We deserve to know something about her.
I suppose it could be used that way...but I originally heard it in the context of a euphemism for straight sex. (And that was quite some time ago.)
Annie Hall, 1977
As Alvy Singer begins to prepare to make love, he suggests: "We should just turn out the lights, you know, and play hide the salam. ..."
I wish this would stay with Dean the way the potatoe debacle stayed with Quayle.
Ugh! What a visual!
But you see, if the doctor doesn't know her, well then no one knows her.
Well, I've heard it describing normal sex for years. When it comes to the other kind, I will yield to someone more knowledgeable than myself :->
Pretty easy to do considering all the voices speaking in his head at the same time.
I remember Howard Dean as a cocky, arrogant, loud mouth during the primaries. I thank God that he was never elected President of the United States.
Ohh, yecch!!
Don't show that Zac!
Darn! I laughed so hard I scared the dogs, and the cat's on top of the bookcase!
bttt
What a jackass, some clever editing and we will be seeing that one for years to come.
What the heck did Matthews say to that comment????
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