They actually staged a fake take-out dinner for a photo op. What's worse: that people will accept this picture as reality, or that they expect people to accept this picture as reality?
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.
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Max Baucus Drunk During Health Care Debate
Thanks, Ladita...He was really good with Martin.
>> “denounced a widely viewed Internet video that suggested Baucus was drunk on the Senate floor”
He probably just brushed his teeth.
Last night, local radio host Kevin James, played Foster Brooks tapes interspersed with Bacchus’s Senate floor “presentation.” It was absolutely hilarious as you could barely tell them apart.
Ouch.
They actually staged a fake take-out dinner for a photo op. What's worse: that people will accept this picture as reality, or that they expect people to accept this picture as reality?
Quick question.
Guy says he was not drunk.
Says he was totally sober.
Never says how many drinks he had.
Never says he didn’t have a single drink.
So. How many drinks did he have?
All I can say is, Too Many! :)
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