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Monday, December 19, 2011

2012 / Politics / TV / Media "Cooter Is Forever, Man"

Posted by on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:02 AM

This is the most entertaining interview I've heard in a while, it runs just under four minutes, and you should go listen to it immediately: Ben Jones, former Dukes of Hazzard actor and then US congressman, on Newt Gingrich, who he ran against in 1994. Gingrich "beat him like a rented mule," he says.

He called me 'scurrilous.' And I thought, scurrilous? That's a weird— that sounds awful. That's an awful-sounding word. But what it means is 'profane.' Now, I gotta admit, I can be profane. I cuss. A reporter from the Atlanta paper said, "What do you think? He called you scurrilous." And I said, "F him and the horse he rode in on."

He makes Gingrich sound like the most stuck-up, obnoxious jerk ever, and Jones sounds like someone I want to drink with around a campfire as soon as possible. Listen! You won't be sorry.

 

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Not to crap all over an otherwise excellent point, but that was the argument people made for George W. Bush too--that you'd want to have a beer with him. I don't want someone in elected office because I'd like to have a beer with him or her. I want them in elected office because they're, you know, competent.

That said, I don't want Gingrich anywhere near any elected office ever. That dude's fucking insane.
Posted by Transient Gadfly on December 19, 2011 at 10:57 AM
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Yes! But, but, the way pronounced "quixotic" makes me love him!! I can't help it!
Posted by More, I Say! on December 19, 2011 at 11:17 AM
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That interview was one for the ages!
Posted by gnossos on December 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM

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