“Our tribe will attack their tribe. And then we will kill their men, make their livestock our own and take their women to mate.”
This, I’m told, is from the draft version of Zell Miller’s speech, before word came down that Zell really shouldn’t hold back.
After all the grief Howard Dean got way back when, I’ll be watching to see how much follow-on there will be after Miller went from delivering that speech to going on Chris Matthews’ show and challenges him to a duel.
(The transcript is really worth reading, if you didn’t see it live.)
It’s also worth glancing at this CNN interview that they did with Miller just after the speech, in which they pointed out that most of the factual assertions he made in the speech were false.
(CNN’s still in awfully bad shape; but credit where credit is due.)
Kevin Drum has a nice run-down of responses from across the web.
Actually I think Atrios get props for the best out of the box response to Miller when he said: “Wow, I never thought Zell would be able to improve on the original German version of Pat Buchanan’s ’92 speech, but he did.”
