The Important Questions
Eric Holder gets asked the tough questions about his role in the administration’s basketball squad:
Note that Herb Kohl isn’t just a Senator, he’s the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks. Not totally sure Holder or Pat Leahy quite got that. Transcript below the fold:
KOHL: One last question, and this relates to your ability to exercise your responsibilities independently of what the president may or may not like. He has reported, as you know, to have considerable skills as a basketball player, and you have indicated to me when we met in my office that you also are a person of considerable skill. In the event, Mr. Holder that he invites you to the gym for a little one-on-one, will you promise us and the american people that you will do everything in your power to defeat him as badly as you can?
LEAHY: My vote depends on your answer!
HOLDER: Senator Kohl, he’s ten years younger than me. He plays a lot more frequently than I do. Having said that, I got a New York City game. I come from the city that produced Condy Hawkins (?), Kareem Abdul Jabar, Nate “Tiny” Archibald. I learned how to play ball in PS 127 in Queens. if you give me a little time and a little space to get back in shape, I think I could hang with him. I don’t think I’m ever going to be in a position to beat him, nor do I think that would be a wise thing to do.
KOHL: Well said, sir.
LEAHY: I want you to know, Mr. Holder, I’ve been here 34 years in these hearings. That is the first time that’s question’s ever been asked.
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January 15th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
The reference the transcriber missed is clearly to Basketball Hall of Fame member Cornelius L. “Connie” Hawkins.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Pretty sure it’s Connie Hawkins.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hawkico01.html
January 15th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
(OK, so I was second, but at least I had a link.)
January 15th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
…and it’s “Jabbar”.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Mr. Holder, would you have any objection if I began refering to you as “my black friend” when in conversation with other wealthy, older white men, in order to impress upon them that I am, indeed, quite hep?
January 15th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Yeah Matt, I’m sure you’re the only one that remembered that Herb Kohl owns the Milwaukee Bucks. It’s not like he ever talks about it. Good point.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
If I owned the Bucks, I wouldn’t talk about it much either.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
“Showing true independence from the President!”
Oh I assumed he thought he’d have a heart attack trying to keep up.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
BTW, anybody with an interest in basketball history should try to find Foul!, a biography of Connie Hawkins and one of the best sports books I ever read.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Bah!
Basketball history began with Red Aurbach’s decision to draft Larry Bird as a junior, despite knowing that he was going to finish school.
Everything before that is caveman scratchings.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Bucks are gonna win the NBA CHAMPIONSHIP this year. And I can feel a Cardinals Super Bowl win.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
John Cornyn
January 15th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Bolivia’s Evo Morales fancies himself a soccer player, to the point that someone felt comfortable enough to break his nose with an elbow when he tried to get in tight to the goal.
Can we still regard Obama with the same proper egalitarian (lack of) regard?
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Is there a new crop of Marxist trolls on the Internet?
That sure doesn’t sound like the conservative trolling we know and love.
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