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http://gothamist.com/2011/02/25/louis_ck_repeatedly_asks_donald_rum.phpDonald Rumsfeld has been all over the media to plug his new book, and yesterday he surfaced on the Opie & Anthony Show, where comedian Louis CK happened to be a guest. Over the protestations of the sycophantic hosts, Louis repeatedly pressed the former Defense Secretary on whether he's a flesh-eating lizard person. It starts around the 2:30 mark:
Rumsfeld dodges the question with some folksy anecdote about visiting NYC and everyone wanting to shake his hand and get his autograph and pay for his dinner. Louis questions Rumsfeld on the lizard rumor again and again, but Rumsfeld refused to answer the question, later explaining that he "did not just arrive in town falling off a turnip cart." Louis also asks about "what that day was like when you met Saddam Hussein and shook his hand." Rumsfeld explains about the unsavory necessity of befriending your friend's enemy, and then Louis is back on the lizard beat.
Rumself finally begs off with the excuse that his grandchildren are listening (to Opie & Anthony?!), to which Louis replies, "They have a right to know." And when the interview finally ends, Opie says Rumsfeld handled Louis's questions "like a gentlemen and a professional," to which Louis points out, "He handled it like a lizard who knows how to never answer." Rumsfeld also appeared on The Daily Show this week, and it looks like Jon Stewart just didn't have the stones to ask the hard-hitting questions:
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/ljfg1n/exclusive---donald-rumsfeld-extended-interview-pt--1
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Almost
He is.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)great, blah, blah, blah...."
BTW, he never answered the question.
"I paid for this microphone Mr.!"
Beringia
(4,316 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)He should be in prison.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)truth2power
(8,219 posts)As they say, A picture is worth a thousand words.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)I don't know where I got it. I've had it for years.
truth2power
(8,219 posts)mountain grammy
(26,630 posts)and I want Rummy to answer the question, are you a lizard?
benld74
(9,904 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,175 posts)He's going more for the comedy. I wish he would have really asked him uncomfortable questions like was that handshake with Saddam about making a deal to sell chemical gas that he used against his own people....(like only a lizard would do).
He kept it so over the top without once even hinting at any actual biting confrontation. In a way he was ridiculing anyone that has ever criticized Rumsfeld by putting them all in the same crazy camp by implying that all people that opposed him were as ridiculous as he was intentionally making himself sound.
The tongue-bathing that those other hosts were giving Rumsfeld was sickening to hear.
I guess the one good thing was hearing an American showing Rumsfeld the respect he deserves. The one attribute Republicans seem to all commonly hold is that their disrespect and contempt for anyone who isn't from the far right, is only matched by their overblown hubris and the entitled expectation of subservient prostration for any Republican that is or has been in office.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Rummy refuses to answer if he's a lizard who has tasted human flesh.
Good for Louis. I love him.
truth2power
(8,219 posts)I'm not familiar with Opie & Anthony, but who's the guy sucking up to that loathsome piece of crap? And why?
Rummy shouldn't be making the rounds peddling his worthless book. He and Cheney should be on some deserted island somewhere, living on moles and grubs for the rest of their miserable lives.
And as far as the "lizard" issue...I've said several times, here, that Rumsfeld and Cheney, both, have to be some alien lizard life-form. I never get any response because I guess no one wants to be associated with anything David Icke has said.
I don't care about David Icke. But it's for sure that those two operate out of the lizard brain. The analogy is spot-on. I can't help who said it before I did.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)Howard Stern wannabe stooges. Had you been able to stomach more. You would've heard them go on and on about how great of a man Rumsfeld is.
truth2power
(8,219 posts)should have bought up his military expertise :
3 years Navy (Kiddy Cruiser! !!