Conyers smacks McCain - and boy was it funny
II wish I had, had my PVR running about ten minutes ago when Alex Witt(less, she always seems to be overtly anti-Obama) on MSNBC was interviewing John Conyers about MLK and the matter of McCain being there came up.
Witt asks Conyers about McCain and Conyers politely points out that McCain voted against the holiday in 83, and in 87 when Arizona's governor moved to rescind the holiday within that state - McCain supported the governor. (Of course you may recall, it was the threat from the NFL that made them think twice on that) Conyers then says, 'well it's quite nice of McCain to come here today after all that' (likely not verbatim - I was sleep deprived)
So Witt tries to pump McCain up and points out that McCain did in fact apologize and asks Conyers if he hadn't heard that yet. So Conyers then thanks her for pointing that out and then adds that it was kinda sad that he couldn't apologize in 82 or 87, but how nice of him 'Now that he's running for President', Conyers was really having a time of it trying to avoid laughing any harder as he said that.
Witt asks Conyers about McCain and Conyers politely points out that McCain voted against the holiday in 83, and in 87 when Arizona's governor moved to rescind the holiday within that state - McCain supported the governor. (Of course you may recall, it was the threat from the NFL that made them think twice on that) Conyers then says, 'well it's quite nice of McCain to come here today after all that' (likely not verbatim - I was sleep deprived)
So Witt tries to pump McCain up and points out that McCain did in fact apologize and asks Conyers if he hadn't heard that yet. So Conyers then thanks her for pointing that out and then adds that it was kinda sad that he couldn't apologize in 82 or 87, but how nice of him 'Now that he's running for President', Conyers was really having a time of it trying to avoid laughing any harder as he said that.
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I saw that. Alex Witt(less)-priceless!
April 4, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIjhGfkPhbk
April 4, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
thanks for the link, video is mushy but the main thing - the commentary is clearly there. Somebody was working fast.
April 4, 2008 9:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
A better version is here (clearer and better sound).
April 4, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink