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On
a Friday, time for "Gimme A minute." With
us now in New York,
Rachel Maddow of Air America Radio. Rachel, good
morning to you, nice to have you back with us.
RACHEL MADDOW, AIR AMERICA RADIO: Good morning. Thanks for having me.
HEMMER: In San Francisco,
Jeff Katz, former KNEW Radio. I should say from KNEW. How you doing, Jeff?
Good morning to you.
JEFF KATZ, KNEW RADIO: I was doing fine 'til I lost my job, Bill.
HEMMER: Well, I'm happy to report you're still employed. Andy Borowitz of borowitzreport.com. How are you, Drew? Good
morning to you, as well.
ANDY BOROWITZ, BOROWITZREPORT.COM: I'm pretty good.
HEMMER: OK, Rachel, start us out. Tom DeLay says he
will not answer any more questions regarding ethics. Our question to you to
kick us off today. Is this any way to put out a fire?
MADDOW: You know, even if you can't follow all the Tom DeLay
scandals -- and there's so many of them, I mean, really, who has time? The
basic point is that Tom DeLay is an arrogant bully
who broke the law and thinks he doesn't have to answer to anyone. So now he's
taking on those allegations by saying to the press, I don't have to answer to
you. He kinds of makes the point. I think the lady doth protest too much.
HEMMER: You are throwing another log on that fire. Is she not, Jeff?
KATZ: I think she's definitely throwing another log on the fire, but as
you're throwing logs from the fire, you can drag some logs from Nancy Pelosi
and Bernie Sanders and a lot of folks across the aisle that are accused of
doing exactly the same thing that Tom DeLay is.
HEMMER: Well, Andy, the pilot light's still on, isn't it?
BOROWITZ: You, DeLay is so confident he's going to
win this thing, he just doubled his family's salary.
HEMMER: Next topic. Presidents Bush and Clinton, 43 and 42, getting down
right friendly, Jeff. Apparently, 43 praised 42 over Social Security reform,
and they had a good time in Rome
during the pope's funeral. What do you make of this relationship?
KATZ: I don't like it. I don't like it simply just as a matter of the former
president's club, I get that, but for those of us who voted for President
Bush, this palling around with Bill Clinton and the rest of the Clinton gang
is disturbing, to say the least, unless Bill Clinton is perhaps coming back
to the White House to move some extra boxes out.
HEMMER: Wow, this is like Crawford meeting Little Rock. "Simple Life"
remade, is it, Rachel?
MADDOW: Well, you know, I think it's creepy that anybody might have a good
time at a funeral. But really, the bad news here is that Bill Clinton has
turned out to be a really great former Republican president. He's done
nothing for the Democrats at all. So we're probably on the same page about
that one. The good news is that with Bill, if he likes Bill, maybe he'll call
the Republicans off Hillary and they'll stop demonizing Hillary and using her
to raise money.
HEMMER: Stay tuned -- Andy?
BOROWITZ: You know, when Bill Clinton had his last heart procedure, he asked
for two people at his bedside. Former President Bush and Angelina Jolie.
HEMMER: Little did you know. Our third topic. The vote on John Bolton --
could be the next U.N. ambassador. Apparently it's delayed until next week.
Rachel, do Democrats think they have a chance of derailing this?
MADDOW: Well, we know about three things about John Bolton, other than the mustache,
right? We know that he's a bully. We know he lied about weapons of mass
destruction, about Cuba,
in his case, but lying about weapons is always a good way to get promoted in
the Bush administration. And we know that he once said that in his mind, the
U.N. didn't exist. That's the silver lining for me. I'm hoping that maybe he
won't show up for work.
HEMMER: Here's the rub. Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, they're suggesting
that he may change sides. Jeff, do you see that as happening?
KATZ: I don't know if Lincoln Chafee would change sides. I would have an
argument with whether Lincoln Chafee a Republican in reality. And I think
John Bolton is a perfect guy for the job. I mean, this is a man who would
actually represent American interests. And if he could take about ten floors
out of the United Nations, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. And for us
in California,
it bothers Barbara Boxer, it's a freebie and it's a bonus. We like it.
HEMMER: What about, Andy?
BOROWITZ: John Bolton said the U.N. was arrogant, wrong-headed and
incompetent, and that he would fit right in.
HEMMER: Ding. Under the radar. Hey, Jeff, what did we miss?
KATZ: We missed this. The United States Golf Association has decided to allow
so-called transsexual men to now compete as women in the women golf
tournaments.
HEMMER: Intriguing. Rachel?
MADDOW: A religious terrorist who set off four bombs in the United States,
killed two Americans, wounded more than 100 people, copped a plea this week.
Not a peep from the president. If Eric Rudolph had been a Muslim, President
Bush would be standing on his corpse giving a speech in the Rose Garden right
now.
HEMMER: Well, you are on fire. Wow. Andy?
BOROWITZ: A new Wisconsin law would allow people to hunt cats, while a new Texas law would allow
cats to buy assault rifles.
HEMMER: Thanks. Let's leave it there. Jeff, if you lose your job, you can
come back any time.
KATZ: Thank you so much, Bill.
HEMMER: Thanks, Rachel; thanks, Jeff; thanks, Andy. All three of you have a
great weekend, OK? All right.
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