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

[zuwadza]

Huff Post is increasingly emulating its partisan competitors on FoxNews: where is the objective, accurate depiction of events that ought to be standard faire for thoughtful, intelligent progressives? Where is the JOURNALISM?

Add to that the use of unseemly advertising techniques that play on human emotion: why do you sensationalize meaningful stories with headlines that prove misleading? Where is the HONESTY? Where is the valuing of human beings which lies at back of our great Liberal tradition?

Not here, I am saddened to say.

[lizards]

thanks for stating the obvious, I was just complaining to my wife about more of the same on the left/right , blue/red, poles.

[ojim]

I agree. I come here for a reason. If I wanted to get sensational and misleading headlines I could be looking elsewhere.

[AuntiepoppyCock]

Go grab your ukulele kids...

[MsLiz]

Ari-anna, pay attention to the foregoing.

[Khirad]

I would normally agree with you, but on this you have ALL spectacularly missed the point.

This is one of the guys going after the "wise Latina" comments which were also taken out of context.

Savvy?

[newleaf]

yeah, that's right.....­feels different when the shoe is on the other foot, doesn't it, Mr. Crack-head Sessions? Now let's grill you about it for 3 or 4 days!

[MsLiz]

Alabama state motto should be: "We are so sorry."

[bluerednot]

Wow - "we're going to do that crack cocaine thing" - Oh come on Senator, you know you are on national / worldwide television, do you have to act like this is a meeting of the county highway commission? your folksy ineptitude makes you look stupid - and is insulting to the whole process - please try to engage you brain and at least pretend to be intelligent.

[madatnewsmedia]

LMAO - Too funny

[weatherwaxx]

You can`t engage a mechanism if you`ve stripped the gears.

[MsTLynne]

LMAO! Sessions is from my state, but he certainly IS NOT mine. Oh, how different it would be if a democratic senator had said the same thing.

[WierdWookie]

This man always reminds me of the Fog-horn Leg-horn Chicken cartoons of my youth. Fog-horn always had an idea up his sleeve but could never pull off the jinx. He just outplanned himself and ended up doing nothing except strutting around the chicken yard.
After watching Sotomayor hearings on c-span 3 all week, I do thing Foghorn was a lot smarter than Sessions.

[madatnewsmedia]

I remember Fog-Horn Leg-Horn when growing up! Some of these posts are hilarious! Needed a good laugh after a long week!! Thanks!!

[Lahonda]

I say, I say I suuuuupport that perception!!!

[baptox]

He looks a little like Buck Henry, too...

[RRonin]

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." - Benjamin Franklin

[Demarcus Jackson]

Sessions, do you see what happens when you take a comment out of context...­it blows up in your face. Fortunately, most people don't rush to judgment like you.

[IWantTofu]

No wonder he kept asking the same question about wise Latina woman over and over again.

[lazercat2008]

Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

[weatherwaxx]

...thereby proving that in his case and by implication several others, a wise Latina is indeed more capable than a befuddled white boy.

[glomtt]

Karma, What goes around Comes Around. I just didn't expect it to be so soon. Lol!!!!

[northstar11]

make sure you watch the video clip on MIKE LUX COLUMN on left

[tjb22]

Jeff Sessions might be one of the only people on Earth who might be improved by doing a little "crack cocaine thing".

[Turtleposer]

Problem solved!

[OB-GYN]

Weird. Almost makes me think that was intentional. Maybe I'm just cranky tonight.

[Goodthink2012]

This entire show has been pitiful...­it's like the Republicans are 5th graders, having a mock congressional hearing about the confirmation. Actually, the 5th graders would have done it better. Sad, really.

[lazercat2008]

I figure that is about right on their education level.

[lazercat2008]

Ha, that's, so funny. .... Giggle, ...... You know what else is funny? Last year we threw over 30,000 people in jail for that "Crack Cocaine Thing" ...just hilarious.

[Onedog]

Oh, but they were mostly non-white. So why would a southern boy think anything about making such a statement with a big grin and a wink. Republicans are pandering to their constituents but the hate they are stirring up could get out of control.

[lazercat2008]

It's also funny how the same amount of white guys go into the system but the ethnic ones go to jail 30% more often than the whites, but hey, tanit no big ting.

[philco11]

he was a joke!!!! alway be a joke and a nobody! and he belong to C- STREET.DON­,T FORGET.

[SouljahBoy]

Session is on da pipe. Watchout McConnell tha boy is gonna steal your TV.

[Lahonda]

Sho 'nuff!!!

[jabberwocky40]

You know some people try to be funny; however, isn't it a "virtue" to think before you speak? How embarrassing it is that these people have been elected to make life changing decisions for the rest of us. It's truly a scary time.

[lizr]

embarrassing to teh people of Alabama, I'm sure!

[weatherwaxx]

They`ve had 8 years of being able to do pretty much anything they wanted and laughing at the rest of us. I hope people manage to stay focused through the 2010 elections. We could use some real Dems instead of those `blue` sons of dogs, too. Though I really shouldn`t insult dogs...

[Oonagh]

That "crack, cocaine thing" may be the reason he is so out to lunch.