Professor tells politician: “I pay your salary” ...an exchange worth watching

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nbc nightly news showed a clip of this on their show....... youtube...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTUH_zYsu1o

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Alaska Congressman Don Young got into a heated discussion with Rice University professor Doug Brinkley at a hearing on Friday.

Young addressed Brinkley as "Dr. Rice" and called his testimony "garbage." Brinkley replied, "Dr. Brinkley. Rice is a university. I know you went to Yuba College and you couldn't graduate."

"I'll call you anything I want to call you when you sit in that chair. You just be quiet," Young quipped.

"You don't own me," Brinkley shot back. "I pay your salary."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/20/don-young-doug-brinkley_n_1103979.htmlhttp://blog.seattlepi.com/hottopics/2011/11/21/professor-tells-politician-“i-pay-your-salary”/

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1. Recommend

[ProfessionalLeftist]

2. Young is an asshole. He' a bully, and a narcissistic, asshole. Mr. Brinkley

DOES pay Young's damn salary. And for that, Young could show a little goddamned respect.

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3. the arrogance of a fucking politician.

[Peregrine Took]

4. The mind toppling arrogance is what struck me. I wish I could fire him. n/t