Ted Stevens–Melon Crazy!
If Sen. Ted Stevens (R., Alaska) keeps on the way he’s going, he may soon have enough material for a stand-up act. Last year it was ‘Net neutrality, trucks and tubes:
“Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.
“… the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled, and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”
This year, it’s motorcycles and wirelines. From the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on number portability yesterday:
See what I mean? Comedy gold. Give him a few props and he’d be giving Gallagher a run for his money …