Did anybody else key on Sen. Frisk’s (Senate majority leader) comments this morning in response to a question from Matt Lauer about the WMD intelligence? The guy actually responded that the reason the intelligence was so dismal concerning the location of the WMDs was because “viruses and bacteria are extremely small and hard to find” (!!!). My jaw dropped to the floor, as I was pretty damn sure that Roseanne Rosannadanna died some years ago with her creator. “Little teeny tiny virus things that get stuck in your teeth right here and are too darn hard to find and so your girlfriend says ‘Hey! Bill Friskannadanna! No wonder you can’t find the WMDs, they’re hiding behind that huge piece of spinach! It’s disGUSTing!’.”
Is this the best spin the White House can come up with? Is the state of Tennessee now hanging its collective head and moaning “Oh, dear God, please no…first Al and now this dinkmonkey…?” Do we need an army of Inspector Clouseaus with magnifying glasses to find the teeny tiny culprits? Somebody please help me, cuz I really don’t get this one.
Perhaps he was. What’s not funny is imagining Joe Sixpack watching the news and saying, “Well, that makes sense! See, Martha! That’s why they haven’t found 'em yet!”
Perhaps if we see a clip of the comment, we’ll be able to tell if Senator Frist was attempting to be funny. Generally, he’s about as funny as… well, I was gonna say a heart attack, but given that Strom Thurmond just died, I’m having second thoughts about that.
He was being anything but funny. His followup comment was to the effect that “Anyway, the reason we went to war wasn’t because of WMD, but because the American People were tired of Saddam Hussein.” Well, my memory isn’t as short as my penis, so I would have to disagree with that one. The cheesy smiles came after the interview.
Re: Lester Maddox and Strom Thurmond–it only proves the addage that ‘only the good die young’.
Yes, I distinctly remember Secretary of State Colin Powell going to the U.N. and saying that the U.S. wanted to go to war with Iraq because “the American People were tired of Saddam Hussein.” :rolleyes:
DANG! Just noticed that I carried over the thread title and called him “Frisk” instead of “Frist”. That’s the kind of thing that can bring a knock on the door in the middle of the night…
DANG! Just noticed that I carried over the thread title and called him “Frisk” instead of “Frist”. That’s the kind of thing that can bring a knock on the door in the middle of the night…from Cecil.
