[QUOTE]Douglas Brinkley is an acclaimed historian, his recent works ranging from an account (“The Great Deluge”) of Hurricane Katrina to a biography (“The Wilderness Warrior”) of Theodore Roosevelt.The Rice University professor is also a man unwilling to be intimidated by a blustering congressman.
Brinkley went before the House Natural Resources Committee on Friday to advocate national monument status for mountains, tundra, rivers and coasts of Alaska’s vast Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
He incurred the wrath of Alaska’s Congressman-for-life Don Young, who has fought nearly 40 years to cut down his state’s national forests, build open pit mines and drill for oil in the Arctic Refuge.
Young referred to Brinkley as “Dr. Rice” and sneered that his testimony was “garbage.” (Known for outbursts, the congressman once brandished a walrus penis at the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.)
“It’s Dr. Brinkley, Rice is a university, and I know you went to Yuba Community College and couldn’t graduate . . .” Brinkley shot back.
A fiery Young then interrupted Brinkley, saying: “‘I’ll call you anything I want to call you when you sit in that (witness) chair. You just be quiet.”
“You don’t own me,” Brinkley replied. “I pay your salary. I work for the private sector and you work for the taxpayers.”
Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, thereupon threatened to remove Brinkley from the panel unless he would agree to speak only when spoken to.
(After a stint in the Army, Young eventually did get through Yuba Community College in California and went on to graduate from Chico State College.)
Brinkley may have written about illustrious Americans — Secretary of State Dean Acheson is another biography subject — but he was also a close friend of the late Gonzo journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Brinkley is Thompson’s literary executor.[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/11/18/i-pay-your-salary-historian-tells-alaska-rep/[/URL]
Blogs aren't news.
[QUOTE]Known for outbursts, the congressman once brandished a walrus penis at the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.[/QUOTE]
uhhh
[editline]21st November 2011[/editline]
As a side-note, it looks like Flagdog is fixed.
[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;33369894]Blogs aren't news.[/QUOTE]
Gizmodo is used as a source all the time.
Besides mainstream news can be terrible inaccurate as well.
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[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;33369894]Blogs aren't news.[/QUOTE]
I feel sorry for you. Have a heart.
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[QUOTE]The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper covering Seattle, Washington, United States, and the surrounding metropolitan area. The newspaper was initially founded in 1863 as the weekly Seattle Gazette and later published daily in broadsheet format until March 17, 2009, when it became an online-only newspaper. Prior to ceasing print publication, the Post-Intelligencer was one of two daily newspapers in Seattle, the other being the The Seattle Times.[/QUOTE]
This Young guy sounds like a douche. Forty years trying to cut down trees and drill wells? I guess we all know who's back pocket he's in now don't we? :v:
Wow, apparently being a congressman makes you higher then everyone else and people can only talk to you when spoken to. When you call someone as a witness, you should plan to hear their whole testimony, not just what you want to hear.
Pretty much explains the political situation in this country, we can't give our representatives our opinion unless they ask for it. This congressman's reaction, according to the article, is absolutely ridiculous. Here I was thinking the petition website would change this, but no it's just another way to tell us we're wrong and they know what is best.
I am ashamed of my state's congressman. What a cunt.
I love how people like this Young guy don't even follow that ideal we were founded on (by hypocrites, but still) that all men are equal.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;33369917]I feel sorry for you. Have a heart.[/QUOTE]
Uhh, no, he's right - blogs are not news.
[QUOTE]Alaska’s [b]Congressman-for-life[/b] Don Young[/QUOTE]
That shouldn't be a thing.
Also Young sounds like a right cunt.
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