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There should be a word for ‘blustering cowardice.’ Hmm. ‘Graysonian?’

In a previous post I wrote some unkind (note: not ‘inaccurate’) words about Jon Corzine, and how he’s not being especially brave this election cycle. Of course, given that this guy (Rep. Alan Grayson, D-FL) is held up as a standard for speaking-truth-to-power among the Left, maybe that’s not so surprising:

That was taken from a larger clip done by O’Reilly and improved with several stills showing politicians from both parties doing precisely what Alan Grayson is whining that nobody expects him to do: answer questions in the hallway, just as if he was a regular human being and everything. You’d think that a guy who’s trying to make a buck off of his supposed tough-guy image would be eager to appear on a show like O’Reilly and take the fight to Fox; then again, that would assume that you believed that said tough-guy image was actually true to begin with.

No wonder that Central Floridan activists have already created a site dedicated to getting rid of him next year (H/T: the Orlando Sentinel). Normally, this sort of thing waits until there’s an actual candidate for opposition to coalesce around; then again, normally sitting Congressmen don’t call female civil servants ‘K Street whores.’

Moe Lane

PS: You know, Grayson: you weren’t the only person in the universe who was always picked last for dodgeball. It’s just that the rest of us mostly got over it in college.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

COMMENTS

  • RedBeard

    And we all know what happened to Scut Farkus.

  • ellisclarke

    After getting elected this clowns can not answers questions off the cuff, but need an appointment first? Next he will need a teleprompter, oh, but can he even read at high school level?

  • ciscoguy

    Yet if you watched O’Reilly’s interview with Jenkins, he said he literally had to stake out his office in order to get that interview because Grayson has been ducking cover from the media everywhere he goes. He said he overheard Grayson in his office trying to get a cop to remove Jenkins from the hallway, but the cop said he couldn’t because the hallway was public space.

    This guy is not only a gutless loser but an out-and-out moron. He thinks he’s courageous for his drive-by attacks while avoiding to talk to anyone but MSDNC about them. Seeing him get fired next year will be one of the most satisfying victories of 2010.

  • http://www.theamericanmind.com Sean Hackbarth

    In the O’Reilly clip you see a man exiting the door with Rep. Grayson. That’s his senior adviser, Matt Stoller. He’s one of the big names in the Lefty blogsophere (wrote at OpenLeft and MyDD.com). Wonder why Grayson sounds like a netroots weblogger? It’s Stoller. Think of him as “Grayson’s Brain.”

    What’s funny is Stoller abandoned his boss when Jenkins started questioning him. Great staff loyalty.