“I’ll call you anything I want to call you when you’re in that chair. You just be quiet.” says Rep

[Liberal_in_LA]

Professor tells politician: “I pay your salary”

Young, who supports drilling in ANWR, set off the fiery exchange when he called Brinkley’s testimony “garbage” and then mistakenly called Brinkley “Dr. Rice.”

“It’s Dr. Brinkley. Rice University is a university,” Brinkley said. “I know you went to Yuba (Community) College…”

Young, who is visibly angry in the video of the exchange, shouted back, “I’ll call you anything I want to call you when you’re in that chair. You just be quiet.”

Brinkley, of course, didn’t take those comments lightly or back off.

“You don’t own me,” the professor said. “I pay your salary. I work for the private sector and you work for the taxpayer.”

http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2011/11/21/professor-tells-politician-%E2%80%9Ci-pay-your-salary%E2%80%9D/?tsp=1

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Work for the taxpayer? More like suck off the government tit.

[peace13]

2. That is pretty disturbing footage.

These clowns are out of control!

[roguevalley]

3. he's been demented for years. years and years. his wife died

and took away anything that still kept him tied to reality.

[DCKit]

4. THATs the way to answer a bully.

:spank::woohoo:

[freshwest]

19. +1,000

[lonestarnot]

21. +10,000

[Youth Uprising]

5. These asshole politicians are getting out of hand.

First, Rahm Emanuel spends his time under the Obama administration thumbing his nose at the very people who where responsible for getting them into office; working against them at every turn and deriding them and their ideas, next Scott Walker ignores the will of the people and strips workers of their collective bargaining rights, then Joe Walsh has his little outburst where he berates his constituents, and now this. They've shown off their true colors and the utter contempt they have for Democracy and the American people. The people should not have to put up with this kind of abuse from their so called elected representatives. They've awaken a sleeping giant and I sincerely hope they get what's coming to them.

[Name removed]

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[Blue_In_AK]

7. Don'tcha just LOVE him?

We've been trying to get rid of that old coot for decades, but somehow he keeps getting elected. About the only good thing I can say for him is that he does support labor (e.g., he voted for Lilly Ledbetter) and he truly loved his deceased wife. It's definitely time for him to go, though. He's really been losing it lately.

[Rex]

8. 9% approval rating...maybe Rep Shithead needs to be the one to STFU.

What happens when Congress has an approval rating of 1%? Pathetic trash, wonder why they suck so bad at their jobs?

[diane in sf]

12. They take their election money from corporate donors, so that's who they serve,

it doesn't matter what 99.9% of the people want.

[Rex]

13. It is SAD that we have arrived at this point.

[Plucketeer]

44. That was my first thought

HE works for special interests. The folks WE pay for are his staff.

[The Straight Story]

9. Sounds like Mistress X I hired that one time...

:evilgrin:

[butterfly77]

10. The media keeps saying that..

they have to go against the majority of the country because of their constituents and they need to keep their seats.

First of all a lot of their constituents don't know even half of what their congressmen or senator are doing and they don't have all of the facts.

Secondly,they don't own those damn seats!!!

[jberryhill]

11. I love the expression on the aide behind the congressman

[tblue37]

14. Yeah--but her shock was because the professor dared to backtalk "God," not because her boss

was acting like an a**h*le

[jberryhill]

16. Perhaps

He may not be her boss. Tough to tell whether she is just surprised or offended.

Although initially, she looks like she's texting a friend.

[Aerows]

15. Is anyone unclear on the arrogance and contempt

that many Republicans seem to harbor for the very people they are supposed to represent?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

17. It extends to the goon squads that enforces "their" rules... n/t

[noiretextatique]

31. it is very clear

contempt and arrogance and ignorance.

[fishwax]

18. would Brinkley be less worthy of respect if he worked for a public university?

That aside, Young really comes off poorly. Good on ya, professor.

[WinkyDink]

20. The esteemed historian Douglas Brinkley is not "just" a professor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Brinkley

Brinkley is a prolific and acclaimed historian, writer, and editor.

Ambrose called Brinkley "the best of the new generation of American historians."<5> Brinkley and Ambrose wrote three books together: The Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 (1997), Witness to History (1999), and The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today (2002), a National Geographic Society best-seller (published on the bicentennial of Thomas Jefferson's doubling the territory of the United States).<6> Patrick Reardon from the Chicago Tribune anointed Brinkley America's "new past master." <7> In contrast in 2006, historian Wilfred McClay in the New York Sun appraised Brinkley's scholarship as one that has failed to "put forward a single memorable idea, a single original analysis or a single lapidary phrase."

Six of his award-winning books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

[deutsey]

22. Imperious prick

Perfect comeback: "You don't own me."

But still, the overall impression the clip had me was what a big shadowplay Congress has become. Everyone plays they're little part in the charade and nothing really happens.

[gkhouston]

23. "I know you went to Yuba"

:rofl:

[JohnnyRingo]

41. Clever. One of those things I'd look back on and say "I wish I would have said that"

He didn't specifically call the congressman stupid, but the message was delivered like when a cartoon character opens a package and a boxing glove punches him in the face. Touche' professor.

[Le Taz Hot]

24. Sorry, but Dr. Brinkley of Rice University

didn't exactly excel in the class department here, either: "I know you went to Yuba (Community) College . . ." Lots of very smart people have gone to community colleges and lots of complete and utter idiots have graduated from Ivy League universities. W comes to mind.

[hobbit709]

25. Sometimes you have to respond in kind to asses.

[Le Taz Hot]

26. There are lots of ways of doing that

that doesn't insult millions of people in the process.

[hobbit709]

27. Insults are like drinks, they only affect you if you accept them.

I doubt very much the professor was trying to insult all people who went to a community college. It certainly didn't insult me.

[Le Taz Hot]

29. I've always loved contortionism as an art form.

Thanks for the entertainment.

[NashVegas]

35. Insults Say More About the Person Using Them Than the Person They're Directed At

Brinkley got off a lovely parting shot, but when he insulted the Rep for attending a community college, he was proving true all the claims about liberals engaging in 1st Class snobby, elitist bullshit.

[GoCubsGo]

53. He didn't say the "community" part.

That was added by whoever was quoting him, hence the parentheses. Nothing "elitist" about what Brinkley said.

[NashVegas]

58. Fair Enough

[AlbertCat]

43. Insults are like drinks, they only affect you if you accept them.

Indeed. Why be insulted that you went to a community college?

[sammytko]

28. He wan't insulting him, he was saying, "I took the time to find out and remember where YOU went to

school, why can't you extend the same courtesy?"

[LiberalAndProud]

30. ^ This.

[gkhouston]

34. +1. n/t

[newspeak]

36. thank you!

that's exactly what he was doing. Those who have umbrage over his remark-I also went to community college-two before going to UC Davis. I was not offended by his remark.

[Pacifist Patriot]

39. That's how I took it as well.

[MissDeeds]

59. Exactly

And "Dr." Brinkley did not correct the babbling fools when they continually called him "Mr.". I think he showed restraint given the tenor of the remarks.

[jberryhill]

38. I agree emphatically

I have several postgraduate degrees, and I found it offensive that Dr. Brinkley would stoop to that level of snobbery.

He can correct the mis-identification without being insulting.

[fascisthunter]

46. he wasn't being insulting.... he was pointing out that it was insulting for the Rep not to know...

where the Dr. was from, that the Dr. knew more about the rep, when it should be mutual.

[fascisthunter]

45. He Stated He Knew Where he went to College, Because the Rep didn't know where the Dr. Works

which is a very good point to make, and no, I do not believe the Dr. was trying to be smug or even putting down his college. I think he was just bringing up the fact that the Dr. seemed to be more aware of him, then the rep did of the Dr., which is embarrassing and shows the rep had very little knowledge on his end, that he wasn't taking the proceeding serious enough.

[Huey P. Long]

32. I support Dr. Brinkley.

[noiretextatique]

33. i support him too...that asshole deserved a lot more

arrogant idiot said: "i can call you whatever i want." self-important jackass got what he deserved.

[Gin]

37. wow...what a smug ass he is.....glad Brinkley defended himself

video kept stopping...last thing I heard was rep saying hes pissed because Brinkley said he wasn't there??

[Roland99]

40. "This area was set aside for drilling"

:wtf:

[jayfish]

42. The facial expressions from that staffer were priceless.-NT-

[fascisthunter]

47. Classic... Dr. Brinkley new more about the Rep, then the Rep about he

how embarrassing!

[Plucketeer]

48. "A little TINY thing!"

That's how congressdolt Young describes the proposed drilling site. "A little TINY thing out of about 19 million acres."

I'd like to ask that jerk what percentage of the Gulf of Mexico was taken up by the BP wellhead. This idiot can see ONLY next election cycles votes and the oil money that keeps him in office.

[Fuzz]

49. If there is an example of how fucked up congress is, this is it. Arrogant assholes who think they

are 'special'. Fuck them all. No respect for the 'ruled'.

[Snotcicles]

52. Just another winger public servant showboating for his drill baby drill base. nt

[in_cog_ni_to]

50. Don Young...PUKE! Typical, rude, nasty, evil, downright mean Rethug.

Gaaaaawd. Could he get any more rude? What an asshole.

[ohheckyeah]

51. Only an

"elitist group" camps there? There's that word again. When all else fails for a Republican they fall back on the elitist word.

[AlinPA]

54. Rep. Young is the garbage.

[woo me with science]

55. Chorost: "If I had to sum up the attitude of America's governing classes in one word..."contempt."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2353574

[TlalocW]

56. Brinkley didn't go far enough

What he should have done instead of pressing the issue after his initial correcting was call Young, "Mister Yuba." When Young objected to that, he could have continued with, "I pay your salary. I'll call you whatever I want, cupcake."

Wishes he could be called before congress.

TlalocW

[flobee1]

57. 2 things

1-when they asked if he wanted to continue testifying, he should have got up and left-nothing constructive will come from talking to this assbag.
2-drilling for oil up there IS NOT FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY! ITS FOR THE GOOD OF BP AND SHELL OIL!!!

I about punched my computer screen