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| Thad Cochran: I Grew Up Doing 'All Kinds Of Indecent Things With Animals' |
| 2014-06-14 |
| [BREITBART] Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) provided his latest head-scratching comment in public, this time joking he engaged in illicit activities with animals as a child. "[We'd] get back [to the Pine Belt-Hattiesburg area of Mississippi] as often as we could because it was fun--it was an adventure to be out there in the country and see what goes on," Cochran said of his childhood and how parts of his family lived in the central part of the state. "Picking up pecans, from that to all kind of indecent things with animals." The audience laughed at that point, video published by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger shows. Cochran's facial expressions did not change, nor did his stance or demeanor. "I know some of you know what that is," he continued. "The whole point of the story is not just coming here to visit cousins and get to know aunts and uncles better, you absorb the culture and you know what's important to people here. I feel very comfortable here and have an identity with this area of the state that's different than any other." Cochran made the speech at the Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, an area of the state known as the Pine Belt where his primary challenger, conservative state Sen. Chris McDaniel, massively over performed in last Tuesday's primary. The Clarion-Ledger's Geoff Pender described Cochran's comment as "a joke, apparently about harassing wildlife or livestock." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 An appeal to Muslim voters? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-06-14 14:12 |
| #8 Congress's motto: Drooling Idiots 'R Us? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-06-14 11:32 |
| #7 What happens in the barn stays in the barn. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2014-06-14 10:12 |
| #6 Better be a mammal. Avians and lower are frowned upon in Mississippi. Perhaps it was just a friendly liver. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-14 09:37 |
| #5 Senility, or brain worms he caught during zoological indecencies ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-14 08:57 |
| #4 Senile. He didn't even know Cantor lost |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-06-14 08:54 |
| #3 Unless I'm mistaken, this is the guy Bloomberg dumped a quarter million dollars on yesterday. Good establishment, 'we can work with him' kinda guy. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-06-14 07:57 |
| #2 Not exactly a winning message--particularly when taken out of context. Next stop for PETA--Cochran's doorstep. Voters can impose term limits at the ballot box. Some voters are so uninformed that maybe term limits by law would be a good idea. Term limits would clean out a lot of the political class, office-holders-for-life, deadwood on both sides of the aisle. Of course, it might be like Whack_A-Mole, they might pop up somewhere else in public office. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-06-14 07:17 |
| #1 I think the old boy is senile, and his staff and corporate crony puppeteers are trying to trot him out there for one last grab at power. He should have just retired. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-06-14 01:02 |