Stone’s Throw
November 29, 2007 at 1:45 pm
A rare night out for Extreme Mortman yesterday as we joined the steadfastly magnificent folks at Reason magazine to hear “Confessions of a Political Hit Man: An Evening with Roger Stone.”
We found the literary libertarian company pleasing — and Roger Stone even more pleasing still.
Two Stone quips worked their way onto our notepad:
Stone said he had lunch at the Washington Palm restaurant: “Glad to see that the steak knife is no longer sticking out of my caricature.”
Ba-dum!
And: “Nick [Gillespie, Reason’s top libertarian] asked me to speak for three minutes. I can’t clear my throat in three minutes.”
Ba-dum!
That line, by the way, was much funnier than Jack Kemp’s opening line in the 1996 VP debate: “Wow, in 90 seconds? I can’t clear my throat in 90 seconds.” Kemp of course followed with this: “Bob Dole and myself do not see Al Gore and Bill Clinton as our enemy. We see them as our opponents.”
You’ll never hear that from Roger Stone.
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