Jeff Sessions: "We're Going To Do That Crack Cocaine Thing" (VIDEO)

Senator Jeff Sessions simultaneously shocked and cracked up the Sotomayor hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday afternoon when he said he was looking forward to doing "that crack cocaine thing" with Senator Patrick Leahy and Wade Henderson, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

Sessions, in a casual tone, said "Mr. Henderson, It's good to work with you. Senator Leahy and I are talking during these hearings, we're going to do that crack cocaine thing that you and I have talked about before."

After an awkward pause, Henderson laughed to himself and said, "Thank you, Senator, I appreciate that."

While the Senate gallery laughed, and witnesses including NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former FBI director Louis Freeh snickered, Sessions sputtered, "Let me correct the record."

Sessions explained: "I misspoke. We're going to reduce the burden of penalties in some of the crack cocaine cases and make them fair."

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Comments

[DrDemon]

Do That Crack Thing?

Ok...Blast, Blast AwaYyYyYyYyYyYyYyYyYyYy!

[1differentdrummer]

Jeffie, Jeffie, Jeffie. What can I say? You need to correct the record too often for me.

[AlexFTW]

He's always on crack!

[socalbrat84]

This man is an elected official? WTF?

Oh... Alabama. That explains it.

[ProudMilVet]

Sen.Sessions is about as funny as the rest of the Republican clowns!

[Larkinvos]

I wish he would.

[Winthorpe]

Publishers just turned me down for writing fiction like this that wasn't believable.

[wndrwrthg]

Well, their doing "the crack cocaine thing" would explain much. One wonders if the entire congress is doing it.

[baptox]

He's no wise Latina....

[jsarets]

Sessions has his "wise crackhead" moment...

[JRsNana]

So, is it just possible that something can seem like a perfectly logical thing to say and just come out a bit garbled? Is that possible Senator Sessions? Because for 4 freakin' days, we sat and listened to you and your Republican friends lambaste Judge Sotomayor over 2 words taken out of the context of a speech over and over and over and over again. Now, here we have you saying you want to do that crack cocaine like you talked about before? Really? Do you? Oh, you misspoke? That wasn't what you meant? You want to correct the record? Really?

[lochnessmonster]

well said.

[fefo70]

I don't get it. That was funny?

[bluemirror]

This guy is a lunatic!

[NotMcCain]

I love it that Sessions spent the week beating up on Sotomayor for the "wise Latina" comment that was bad when taken out of context.

Then....Justice!!! Sessions makes a MUCH WORSE comment (if quoted out of context).

Hahahahah.

[jsgaetano]

Considering he just spent what, two months? taking somebody's words out of context, it would just be karmic payback to spend the next two years or so repeating his words all over these internets.