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On Tuesday, Rachel asked two related questions: "What is going on with Scott Brown? What is wrong with Scott Brown?"
In context, Rachel was talking about the Republican senator's demand that Ted Kennedy's widow be politically muzzled in order for him to participate in a Kennedy Institute debate, but the questions have broader applicability.
In the interview [on WTKK-FM], Brown also fired back at suggestions that the campaign is lacking in substance.... He also said he is engaged in substantive issues on a daily basis, some that involve royalty.
"Each and every day that I've been a United States senator, I've been discussing issues, meeting on issues, in secret meetings with kings and queens and prime ministers and business leaders and military leaders, talking, voting, working on issues every single day," he said.
When the Boston Globe asked whether, and how often, Brown has actually met with royalty, his spokesperson would not say. The senator's office added this morning that Brown was "speaking generally about private meetings" he's had with various leaders.
I suppose it's possible Brown misspoke -- I've stumbled during radio interviews myself -- though "secret meetings with kings and queens" is certainly an odd thing for a senator to brag about publicly, especially when he's trying to prove how serious and substantive he is. (Update: here's the audio.)
Indeed, boasts about "secret meetings with kings and queens" reinforces fears that Brown isn't serious and substantive. It's also reminiscent of the incident last year when Brown, trying to show off about his access to secret information, bragged to reporters about having seen photos of Osama bin Laden's dead body at an official Senate briefing, when in fact, the senator had simply fallen for an internet hoax.
One of the knocks on Brown is that he's not quite up to the task of being a senator, and he finds himself in over his head. Crowing about "secret meetings with kings and queens" that never occurred really won't help dispel this impression.
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Now, wait a minute! I too, have "secret (as in don't tell my wife) meetings" with Kings and Queens. Also, some one-eyed Jacks.
It's not the kings and queens that bothered me, but with prime ministers. What is an opposition Senator doing meeting with foreign heads of state in secret?
Well, technically then, the kings & queens should bother you as well as they are the heads of state in countries that have kings & queens. Just sayin'
Also? Totally with you on this one.
I think he probably meant to say "drag kings and queens". That's a more logical thing for a Republican to want to keep secret, although a lot less objectionable politically to everyone else.
That should really help him appeal to the average voter as a man of the people, too.
I'm anxiously awaiting the next poll on the Brown-Warren race.
Secret meetings with queens? Ho hum, another closeted gay Republican.
LOL, good one! You know we're the exact opposite.
I think his good looks have finally gone to his head. He has very mean eyes. He must be trying to live out some kind of a fantasy pretending he is one of the Kennedys'. I don't think the Kennedys' were very lucky when it came to love. Maybe the lieing is so out of hand that it is catching up with them. Stress can do some crazy things to a persons' psyche too.
Are these the same Kings and Queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams?
Watch out for the red queen she hasn't got time to make you wise(or aware, not sure)....Yes
Nah, these are the "kings & queens" running Wall St. - the ones lining his re-election war-chest. I mean the Koch's, Sheldon Addleson, et.al do actually believe that the rest of US live to service their needs & wants.
He's talking about the King of Bain and the Queen of Dressage.
Why do those comments remind me of this passage in The Walrus and The Carpenter:
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Methinks that Mr. Brown maybe visited the Caterpillar?
I am the Walrus.KooKoocheekoo
Maybe he meant Hollywood Royalty like he's having secret talks with Joan Crawford's ghost or something? Wow, when they lose it, they REALLY lose it at amateur night!
If Scott Brown wins again, it'll be thanks to the Unions-again. If the Unioniusts in Massachusetts again bring Brown to the victory circle, they may well be hammering the last nails into the coffin of the Union movement.
That's not completely accurate. Unions supported Coakley, but many union households supported Brown, thanks to his running as an "independent" and his little truck. He did not have the word "Republican" in any ad. It was a low turnout special election. Warren will beat him. She will ride Obama's coattails in a state where Mittens is polling at 34%.
The debate versus Warren will be quite entertaining - if it happens.
Can someone clarify something for me.
Maybe it was even Senator Obama, but didn't one of the Democrats meet with a leader from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, or some place and the Republicans went out of their collective minds saying that the person was interfering with Bush's programs?
I don't think Bush had any programs, he was only programmed by Cheney. Cheney's programs all failed which is why The Big Oil Companies think they own the Republican Congress and Senators..they are trying to find more inventive ways of raping this earth for their own selfish gain. They now want to wipe out the whole ocean with their dangerous, risky drilling practices. Say Goodbye to our fish friends. I hope noone was too fond of Sushi.
My advice to Scott Brown:
Facts are for liberals!
Perhaps Scott Brown, like Sarah Palin apparently, if you believe the claims in those books, believes some of the titular queens and kings he's met are actual heads of state, instead of figureheads and symbols of a bygone era.
He just wants to be invited to 1 of those candlelight dinners.
Actually the Queen of England (for example) is the head of state in the UK. The Prime Minister is not and in Commonwealth countries like mine, the Governor General representing the Queen is the head of state.
Kings of Corporations and their Queens use many republican politicians as secret court Jesters.
Maybe he had a role as an extra in the hit show "King of Queens"? He was the original dog walker.Or he's playing checkers too much, he has nothing better to do, no jobs to create.
Sorry Angel, I posted without reading other comments. You beat me to it.
Now that I'm here, Brown is truly an odd duck. He demands no Mrs. Kennedy speaking to his debate criteria. What? Just really weird. Then is he running for Senator or President? Weird.
I'm beginning to think he has early onset dementia.
Look at his past quotes, this guys in his own world watching it play out before our eyes.
Does he have any idea how ridiculous that statement is?!? No one but an ignoramus would believe that lie.
This would make him the hardest working man in Politics...(if it were not a mere fantasy). and we only hear about the crazy on msnbc.....why are the other networks not covering the crazy?
"... secret meetings with Kings and Queens ... "
Translation: "I'm on a first name basis with managers of local Burger King and Dairy Queen outlets, and they frequently sneak free food to my office."
He must be talking about the meeting with the King of Queens. Is that tv show still on?
No wonder it's secret, what with the Yankees and Red Sox rivalry. Except the Mets are in Queens, I think.
I cannot visualize the people of Massachusetts electing Brown over Warren to replace Teddy.
Tell me he has read all the conspiracy theories surrounding the Bilderberg Group, dreamed of attending one of their meetings and took his dreams for reality. It is ONLY a theory, but since he talked EXPLICITLY of kings and queens, it's the simplest theory to explore in order to explain all this...