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

[springsm]

My gawd...doe­s he take himself seriously.­..yes he does..does anybody else. What a bafoon.

[dmspeech]

Sessions is my Senator and we all have to do crack cocaine to put up with him

[Scott Colbert]

McCain is my Senator, and we drink until we pass out; or wait for his pow story and fall asleep.

[Wiseronenow]

LMAO!

[dmspeech]

Have you ever heard Jim on the Stephanie Miller Show do his impersonation of McCain? If not, go to her site and listen. You'll be laughing so hard you won't think about drinking.

[averygard]

"My friends...­"

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

someone tell Tyrone Bigums, clean up on Capital Hill

[HarryParatestis]

i thought i saw a crackpipe in his office

[ctman47]

Sen. Sessions - you have replaced Palin as the cartoon of the week. Keep em comin.

[GolfingDevil05]

If the quote had been "wise leprechaun" instead of "wise Latina", Sessions would have had no problem with it.

[Wiseronenow]

Of course, Sessions HAD to take the opportunity to make comment to a 'b/l/a/c/k' man about d/r/u/g/s. I bet Sessions was just b/i/t/i//g his lip to make an reference to Obama trying c/o/c/a/i/n/e/ in his youth. So, instead he took his cheap s/h/o/t towards the first b/l/a/c/k man he addressed in this whole nomination proceeding. R/a/c/i/s/t to the c/o/r/e.

[sueno]

This 'nutso', brain-poor, fake-a** representative
should be smoking 'crack' considering
the crap that comes out of his mouth-

[jhamm1]

Move over Biden, there's a new "gaffe machine" in town.

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

gaffe machine, um Obama?

[Ellyllon]

That explains a lot.

[gfs5541]

Yeah. The mutha's on crack! (LOL)

[D-V-H]

He's not really a senator, but he does play one on TV.

[MoeJava]

...is this why Sessions takes extra breaks?
Was he just back from one of those breaks - hence the "crack cocaine" remark?

[redsongia]

Yeah, crack cocaine is hillarious.

[Vote2bfree]

Why doesn't the South just secede from the union and ease the pain for the rest of us; the country would be much better off. All the Republicans can just relocate there and create their own little utopian nation.

[robotfog]

why don't republicans just secede from the planet?

[eciaccio]

I think Sessions has been doing "that crack cocaine thing" all along. That explains his racist idiocy.

[dutch163]

he was a lot funnier on "Laugh in" !

[onnyang]

priceless!!!

[robotfog]

until they replaced him with a psychedelic cardboard box that had more charisma.