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Friday night funny audio: Mike Gravel confuses Laura Ingraham with Dr. Laura Schlessinger

posted at 9:16 pm on June 15, 2007 by Bryan
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Wow. Between today’s earlier commercials and this I know exactly who I’m going to vote for - anyone but him.

amerpundit on June 15, 2007 at 9:21 PM

He’s still more lucid than the majority of Dems, at least he has kind of a smile in his voice and not a chalkboard-scrathing timbre.

bbz123 on June 15, 2007 at 9:22 PM

Was he drunk?

petefrt on June 15, 2007 at 9:23 PM

He is a traitor. Not the run of the mill, let’s call someone a traitor kinda traitor. A traitor. They should have started GITMO with him back in 72.

Limerick on June 15, 2007 at 9:25 PM

What’s the dirt on him, Limerick?

bbz123 on June 15, 2007 at 9:31 PM

Yeah Limerick give us the scoop. I just thought he was the Democratic equivelent of Ron Paul.

sonnyspats1 on June 15, 2007 at 9:35 PM

He released(as a US Senator no less) the Pentagon papers via Daniel Ellsberg(sp) in 1971.
Stone cold sit on an enemy anti-aircraft battery and smile traitor. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Limerick on June 15, 2007 at 9:40 PM

From WikiPedia:

In 1971, he played a key role in the release of the Pentagon Papers — a large collection of secret government documents pertaining to the Vietnam War — which were made public by former Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg. First trying unsuccessfully to read the Papers in the Senate chamber he, on the night of 29 June 1971, convened a late session of the Senate Subcommittee on Buildings and Grounds which he chaired. Reading for the next three hours and at times crying and sobbing, he succeeded in publishing 4,100 pages of the Papers into the Subcommittee’s official reports and therefore also onto the public record.[10] He also made public a copy of National Security Study Memorandum No. 1, which Daniel Ellsberg had provided him.[11] These pages were later issued by the Beacon Press as the “Senator Gravel Edition” — the most complete edition to be published, with editing and annotations by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, and an additional volume of analytical articles on the origins and progress of the war (also edited by Chomsky and Zinn).[12]

Also in 1971, he embarked on a one-man filibuster against legislation renewing the military draft. Using various parliamentary maneuvers, he was able to block the bill for five months before President Richard Nixon and Senate Republicans agreed to allow the draft to expire in 1973.

His opposition to the war was also expressed in his advocation of equal air time from the media to counter the Nixon administration’s position on the war. He organized the War No More group. He criticized Vietnamization as “a plan to keep on our involvement for decades until we win”.[13]

In 1972 he tried unsuccessfully to have the Senate vote on a Congressional Declaration of War against North Vietnam and to persuade the Senate to publish, in the Congressional Record, a secret Nixon administration study of US bombing effectiveness in Vietnam.[14]

JayHaw Phrenzie on June 15, 2007 at 9:41 PM

Well then he is merely Fred! kibble then.

bbz123 on June 15, 2007 at 9:42 PM

Peering into the future, I see a President Gravel announcing, for the fifth time, his success in taking out Mahmoud and a reporter asking, “Which one this time?” while American listeners just sit shaking their heads.

Dusty on June 15, 2007 at 9:44 PM

Key here is ‘Top Secret’. That is what the Pentagon study was, and he trotted it out to the NYT and said ‘lookie here’ ain’t I great!…..

If any citizen deserves a GITMO it his him and his tramp Jane.

Limerick on June 15, 2007 at 9:46 PM

He or one of his similarly brain-dead flunkies must’ve caught Laura’s doctor skit on 1/2 Hour News Hour and got a teensy bit confused.

I still wouldn’t mind being examined by her….

kevcad on June 15, 2007 at 9:47 PM

Also News people are always messing up pronouncing her last name. She’s a great warrior in the Conservative cause. My only problem with Laura is her start and restart speak. It drives me nuts. It’s like back in my church going days as a kid we use to count how many times the assistant pastor said “uh” when reading the upcoming events.

Drtuddle on June 15, 2007 at 10:01 PM

Limerick on June 15, 2007 at 9:40 PM

Oh so he ain’t nothing but a dirty old hippy. What did he live in Alaska on a commune?

sonnyspats1 on June 15, 2007 at 10:08 PM

What did he live in Alaska on a commune?

sonnyspats1 on June 15, 2007 at 10:08 PM

No…he lives on your tax dollars and the blood off of the knife he shoved into Columbia’s back.

Limerick on June 15, 2007 at 10:13 PM

Lol .. every democrat should vote for this guy. My favorite one of his youtube videos is the one where he explains his brilliant plan to save the world from carbon .. by imposing a tax.

Only about a minute long but don’t be surprised if you nod off in the middle of it, he’s a very low-energy candidate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH9W4AiXzVU

boru on June 15, 2007 at 10:19 PM

I kinda like this Donk. Gruffy, mad and genuine. At least he knows who he is.

That’s a lot more than can be said for any of the other abysmal candidates in the Donk field.

Good Lt on June 15, 2007 at 10:41 PM

Senator Alzheimer never fails to provide laughs. My fav: “I don’t know if I even understand my problems”.

thedecider on June 15, 2007 at 10:55 PM

Easy mistake. They’re both women. It’s not like they’re black or anything.

JohnJ on June 15, 2007 at 11:50 PM

This putz is as goofy as an old goose.

Jaibones on June 15, 2007 at 11:53 PM

There’s no fool like an old, drug addicted, liberal Democrat fool. Another prime example of the junkie generation.

lynnv on June 16, 2007 at 8:04 AM

The best thing this guy does it to skewer other dems. When Hillary et al were trying to call the Iraq war, Bush’s war, he pointed out that the dem senators voted for the war, so it their war also.

hahaha

csdeven on June 16, 2007 at 8:27 AM

Oh, that was funny! He thought she was “Dr. Laura Ingraham.” That whole segment cracked me up.

Laura Ingraham has the best radio program around.

januarius on June 16, 2007 at 8:32 AM

goofier than a duck on ether,,,,

Lonevoice on June 16, 2007 at 8:46 AM

They all look alike

Wade on June 16, 2007 at 10:09 AM

Now THAT is red meat! :)

fusionaddict on June 16, 2007 at 10:36 AM

No…he lives on your tax dollars and the blood off of the knife he shoved into Columbia’s back.

Limerick on June 15, 2007 at 10:13 PM
Can you elaborate on the Columbia part? I bet this geek has alot to do with the banning of oil exploration in the tundra.

sonnyspats1 on June 16, 2007 at 9:03 PM

spats,

Limerick wrote “Columbia”, not “Colombia”. Colombia is the South American Country, while “Columbia” is an alternate name of the United States of America.

At least, I presume that that’s what Limerick meant….

Tuning Spork on June 17, 2007 at 12:40 AM

Who is this Jackass?

pat on June 17, 2007 at 2:37 AM


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