The Tubes Got Clogged: Ted Stevens Indicted for Corruption
Today is a very particular type of sad day in America: the kind where babies cry, the earth underneath California rattles in despair, and hilariously corrupt national political celebrities get caught in whatever dirty business it is they are involved in. It will live in infamy with the day Jim Traficant began serving his jail sentence, the day Larry Craig stood a little too wide in an airport bathroom. Everyone’s favorite senile Senator this side of John McCain, Ted Stevens, has been indicted for hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars in sweet, sweet dirty bribe money.
Stevens, a Republican from Alaska and the longest-serving Republican in Congress, is famous for his architectural genius in proposing the “bridge to nowhere” from the Alaskan city of Ketchikan to some island with fifty people on it, and for his masterful understanding of the Internets as a “series of tubes” that sometimes “get clogged”, and “not a truck”:
“They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big 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.”
It is truly sunset in America when entertainment gems such as Ted Stevens are brought to task for taking underhanded amounts of money that are significantly less than most main TV stations would pay Charlie Sheen to make everyone cry with his “jokes”.
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