BARKLEY: Well, the thing that's interesting to me -- and this is like my biggest complaint with the whole political process and anybody...I'm trying to figure out -- they throw these words around like liberal, moderate, conservative. And we are like idiots. We sit here and choose sides. Man, I don't care what it is. Let's just solve these problems...Hey, it's our country. It's not -- he says his country. No, it's our country. We elect these guys to run the country. They're just not doing their job...Man, everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too...It's funny. No matter what happen in this country, somehow, now, he went back and blamed something on Jimmy Carter. SAVAGE: If you knew your history, you'd know what I'm talking about. It's nice for you to sit there and make jokes, but...
BARKLEY: I'm not making jokes. I'm telling facts.
Am I mistaken, or is there a single fact in anything Barkley had said to that point?
Actually, there were several facts in what he said. For example, "We elect these guys to run the country. They're just not doing their job..."
Barkley jumped to his point so fast that you missed his "argument." His argument was just a matter of pointing out that most politicians are self-serving jerks. And he was correct about that.
(The interesting thing about this is that Barkley doesn't have a whole lot of respect for most politicians on either side of the aisle. Frankly, I don't, either.)