And foul-mouthed. You forgot that. He's crude and boorish.
What was amusing in a 1 minute speech became quite tiresome in his hourlong screeds before the ethics committee. I was embarassed for him because surely he wasn't embarassed for himself.
I thought it was interesting to note the contrast between the "prosecution" attorney (I forget his name) and Traficant. The prosecutor was smooth, unemotional, and effective. Traficant was a gibbering idiot, who could not put together a coherent sentence, much less a convincing defense. It's almost as though he thought the whole thing was a big game, and he was the star. His mugging for the cameras was downright juvenile, and his rhetoric was random outgassing.
He's doomed.