Senator Bacchus
Posted on 12/29/2009 10:37:55 AM PST by jazusamo
Sen. Max Baucus' office Monday denounced a widely viewed Internet video that suggested Baucus was drunk on the Senate floor last week, calling it an "untrue, personal smear" designed to attack Democrats’ health-care reform legislation.
"This is beyond the pale, and this type of gutter politics has no place in the public sphere," said Baucus spokesman Ty Matsdorf.
How can unedited CSPAN footage of Senate proceedings posted on YouTube comprise a “smear?” Any reasonable person viewing the clip would conclude that Baucus was drunk or had something else wrong with him. Baucus' office did not assert that he was experiencing some other problem, like fatigue or a medical condition.
The Billings Gazette, along with the Great Falls Tribune, both reported that the YouTube video was posted anonymously, as if Baucus was somehow the target of an unfair attack. I guess they assume that their readers don’t know how YouTube or the internet work, and that CSPAN is no longer a credible source for U.S. Senate proceedings.
If these newspapers wanted to cite someone who would accuse Baucus of being drunk on the record, they should have called me.
Some Baucus defenders have theorized that he was just tired from putting in all the long hours on health care. Tired people slow down when they speak and have trouble finding the right, and sometimes obvious, word.
Fatigue is not evident in the CSPAN clip. In fact, Baucus speaks at a rapid clip, resulting in slurring of words. He also demonstrates the false bravado and jerky gesticulations that come not from lack of sleep but from alcohol.
By claiming a “smear” and a “slander,” we think Baucus protests too much. It is also hard to take seriously anything said by his spokesman Ty Matsdorf . This is the same staffer who dutifully claimed that Melodee Hanes, Baucus’ current live-in girlfriend, was acting in her “official capacity” as a Senate staffer when she met with a divorce lawyer to plan Baucus’ divorce months before Baucus had even discussed divorce with his wife.
Related:
Max Baucus Drunk During Health Care Debate
wasn’t that a song years ago “message in a bottle” naaaaaaahhhhhh
From Wikipedia - “the Greek god of wine and intoxication, known as Bacchus to Romans”
classic...
You have that right. From the linked articles, the local papers are definitely in the tank for him. I love the one article that matter-of-factly states that Baucus speaks like this all the time and that he wasn’t slurring his words. I guess people can’t judge for themselves and need reporters to interpret for them.
Toasted.
The question was, was he drunk or stupid. If he was not drunk that leaves stupid. Personally I’d rather plead drunk.
I'sh was not Looooaded.
When someone thinks they can fool people they are really drunk!
On a Slightly related note...
I would like to Congratulate Senator TED KENNEDY for completing his FOURTH MONTH of Continuous Sobriety.
When gay Bacchus fills my breast,
All my cares are lull’d to rest,
Thus I sit in mind elate,
Laughing at the farce of state.
Baccus, Jove’s delightful boy,
Generous god of wine and joy,
Still exhilarates my soul
With the raptures of the bowl
== from the Odes of Anacreon at http://books.google.com/books?id=E-gSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=when+gay+bacchus+fills+my+breast&source=bl&ots=2uf4X83nsz&sig=SPIkwxPZ0ecr7Nw5qYS1sa-fqoI&hl=en&ei=h1M6S4jTNtWtlAeD6NH8Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBQQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false
**I’sh was not Looooaded.**
To own a jacket like that??? Yes, sir you are...
love that pic
Translation: I could have swilled down at least three or four more 'tini's before I fall over. Us "Pros" know how to handle it. I learned from one of the best, a Kennedy.
Foster Brooks was really funny. May he RIP.
He may cont to think that he would have been better off to claim that thruout all the ‘healthcare debate’ that he WAS drunk.
It might be the only excuse he will ever have for supporting this obscene mess.
Baucus to voters: “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
Senator Max Baucus, seated, with staff members, from left, Brianne Rogers, Paul Wilkins, Jim Messina and Ty Matsdorf, at a late dinner Friday - 2006
Ty Matsdorf on right, with glasses
Maybe all Libtards sound like this if we were to actually listen to them.
I wouldn't know, I'm just theorizing here.
Yeah, I guess the several times I’ve seen him on C-Span he really was drunk because he wasn’t speaking like that. lol
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