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Commissioner Buffoon: Michelle Malkin on Bob Kerrey & 9/11 Commission
2004-04-30
EFL. Hat tip James Taranto (opinionjournal.com)
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Kerrey’s behavior during the 9/11 hearings — hectoring witnesses, mugging for the cameras, delivering a windy monologue to Dr. Condoleezza Rice ("Dr. Clarke") and then complaining about his time being "eaten up" — has been abominable. But it was Kerrey’s shameful TV appearance on Monday night alone that should disqualify him as a commissioner on a federal panel investigating the deadliest enemy attack on American soil.

Catapulted back into the limelight thanks to the mass murder of 3,000 innocent men, women, and children, Kerrey took advantage of his terrorist-induced celebrity to appear on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Now, it would be one thing if Kerrey used his privileged position to inform Stewart’s younger audience of the gravity of the 9/11 panel’s task. But instead, Kerrey yukked it up. First, he dished with Stewart about President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney’s upcoming private meeting with the commission. When Stewart mocked the president’s "buddy system," Kerrey guffawed: "He is bringing his buddy, that’s exactly right, for safety." Emboldened by audience applause, Kerrey riffed that it was more like "Screw you, buddy." Asked by Stewart whether people were really blaming each other over the terrorist attacks during closed hearings, Kerrey snorted: "Oh, Jee-zus, yeah." More audience approval. (Taking the Lord’s name in vain is always good for a few cheap laughs.)

Next, echoing a profanity uttered earlier in the show, Kerrey blurted out with a clownish grin: "Life is [expletive bleeped]." When Stewart proposed that Kerrey ask the vice president, "What the [expletive bleeped] is wrong with you people?" Kerrey cracked up and promised to use the question. And when Stewart called Attorney General John Ashcroft a "big [expletive bleeped]," Kerrey chortled some more.
Posted by:Wuzzalib

#5  ...THEN the guy walks out on President bush's testimony at the hearings yesterday..

That just proves that in the end, the commission's "findings" aren't going to mean much.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-04-30 11:49:35 AM  

#4  FUBAR
Posted by: Dragon Fly   2004-04-30 6:51:31 AM  

#3  You know I was flim flamed by this average Joe in the early hearings, latter it became apparent that he was, is, a bore. He and I could easily get along as long as we watched the home team win.

IOW, what a empty suit and empty mind.
Posted by: Lucky   2004-04-30 12:47:54 AM  

#2  He's still steamed that Debra Winger dumped him.

Humor is only angry humor. A truly unhappy camper.
Posted by: BigEd   2004-04-30 12:24:22 AM  

#1  ...THEN the guy walks out on President bush's testimony at the hearings yesterday - after they complain that he wasn't going to spend enough time there.
CMOH or not, Kerrey's a jackass. He can kiss his VP slot with Kerry goodbye.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2004-04-30 12:17:54 AM  

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