Dem Politico Cracks Joke About Trouser Snake … To a 17 Year Old Girl
[Guest post by JD]
Connecticut state Rep. Ernest Hewett (D) made an inappropriate remark to a 17 year old girl testifying about a program that helped her overcome her shyness and get over her fear of snakes, the New London Day reports.
Said the girl: “I am usually a very shy person, and now I am more outgoing. I was able to teach those children about certain things like snakes that we have and the turtles that we have… I want to do something toward that, working with children when I get older.”
According to an audiotape of the hearing, Hewett replied: “If you’re bashful I got a snake sitting under my desk here.”
And then followed it up with this …
Said Hewett: “I purposely will not have female interns. My intern now is a male. I want to keep it like that. I’ve had female interns in the past that sit in my office all day. I thought it was totally weird and I didn’t want another. As a matter of fact, I went four, maybe six years without having an intern at all because of stuff like that. I have a male intern, the last two I’ve had were male.”
He added: “I don’t get to choose. That’s why I was so leery about staying away from interns. I don’t know what they’re going to give me. They may give me a female, but I don’t want a female intern. That may sound sexist but I really don’t. That way that keeps me good and that keeps everybody else good.”
War on women.
Can you imagine the outcry … Never mind.
—JD
UPDATE BY PATTERICO: Here’s the audio. I hate to say this, but . . . he may have been talking about an actual snake, in a very very clueless manner.
After all, she was talking about her participation at a science center, and she specifically mentioned that she shows snakes to children.
It’s still pretty odd, and I wouldn’t want this guy addressing my daughter, but . . . maybe it was innocently intended. Maybe.
Sexist misogynists
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:17 am
aw man don’t be wavin that bootylicious intern booty in my face
hold me back now gotta get me some of that no seriously I’m going in here I go
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:20 am
Is nancy going to drain the swamp?
Comment by EPWJ (1ea63e) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:23 am
But Marco Rubio took a drink of water !
Comment by Elephant Stone (2e679e) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:24 am
And John Boehner goes to a tanning salon !
Comment by Elephant Stone (2e679e) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:26 am
Chris Christie likes to eat too many donuts !
Comment by Elephant Stone (2e679e) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:27 am
If you can tolerate it, go read the comments where Taegan’s leftists go to great lengths to defend the CT Dem.
This is all about Team R and Team D to them. They pose like they are being objective and above the fray. Shockingly, after using pretzel contortionist logic to defend this numbskull, they proclaim people that do not share their view racists, perverts, and haters. I am SHOCKED.
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:33 am
Post some JD show em on the net so googlers can see everywhere
Comment by EPWJ (1ea63e) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:38 am
OT this is new
forbes is attacking the exorcist with “toxic sinkholes“
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:45 am
Was it his “snake”, or was it his male intern’s “snake” he was referring to? And did he mean to say “sitting down low under my desk here”?
Comment by nk (53646e) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:48 am
holy homo trouser snakes baman they got us surrounded
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:49 am
SSDD.
Comment by Pious Agnostic (20c167) — 3/3/2013 @ 9:24 am
Being gay is a big no-no in the black community, so repressed black men on the down low take it out in disrespecting and abusing women (that they do not like in the first place). Is the term displacement?
Comment by nk (53646e) — 3/3/2013 @ 9:38 am
being gay is a big no-no in the black community
sketches are up of the ones what ordered the last code red
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/3/2013 @ 9:42 am
I bet Reggie Love has a new internship lined up.
Comment by Elephant Stone (71e577) — 3/3/2013 @ 9:58 am
the intern comments are still weird and pervy Mr. P
Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/3/2013 @ 10:46 am
the only words I heard him say is “if you’re only bashful, I have a snake right here sitting under my desk”
clumsy and clueless trying to be funny, but I didnt see the overt sexism either – it sounded like a sweet kid spoke and charmed the committee for two minutes and there was gruff affection in his voice not leery or lewdness.
buy still like JD said if it was a Republican….
Comment by EPWJ (1ea63e) — 3/3/2013 @ 11:48 am
Is this were we’ve come to as a nation, that a kindly older gentleman can’t invite a sweet young 17-year-old girl up to pet the snake under his desk without everybody getting all upset and thinking it’s a sexual thing?
It’s sad, really.
It’s getting so I can’t even give out candy to small children from the back of my white van, where by the way I have a box full of puppies, without being targeted by dirty-minded people.
Comment by Pious Agnostic (20c167) — 3/3/2013 @ 12:00 pm
UPDATE BY PATTERICO: Here’s the audio. I hate to say this, but…he may have been talking about an actual snake, in a very very clueless manner.
With people of the left, you can never be sure. After all, the insanity is running far and deep (per below).
Hewett does talk about avoiding female interns in a way that sounds like he lacks confidence in his own impulses. But in today’s world, if his urges inspired him to have sex with male interns, that would be A-OK among the NOW crowd (see: Bill and Monica) and GLBT activists (anti-gay is the new racism, and the Boy Scouts of America are no better than the Klu Klux Klan!!).
^ If the kid had instead shaped his food to look like genitalia instead of an armament, the teacher probably would have given him an “A” for creativity in free expression.
Comment by Mark (93f57a) — 3/3/2013 @ 2:29 pm
I have to agree with EPWJ. Reading about this elsewhere I thought he was a complete letch. However, hearing the tape I no longer feel that way. He is clearly saying or implying that she is not bashful. While clumsy I have no doubt he meant it like if I were to disagree with someone by saying “If that’s true then I’m Santa Claus.”
Comment by Largebill (6f38e4) — 3/3/2013 @ 8:24 pm
It’s like Anne Heche in Six Days, Seven Nights, in which a “creature,” which she believes to be a snake, has just swum into her shorts. Harrison Ford “rescues” her.
Comment by The Dana who saw the movie (3e4784) — 3/4/2013 @ 3:50 am
Mark, at 3/3/2013 @ 2:29 pm, gives me an idea. We should encourage our children who choose to play cops-and-robbers and point their fingers at one another and say “bang” to explain to their teachers that they are just acting out their nascent homosexual curiosity, that the finger is not a gun, and that the “bang” is just that.
Comment by Pious Agnostic (40defc) — 3/4/2013 @ 4:42 am
Imagine if he were a Republican.
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/4/2013 @ 5:01 am
“That may sound sexist.” Yep. And there’s a reason it sounds like that.
Comment by PatHMV (265954) — 3/4/2013 @ 7:02 am
Patterico – There very well have been an innocent explanation for that awkward clumsy statement.
Given his further lecherous statements, I’ve got a snake here under my desk seems … icky.
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/4/2013 @ 7:04 am
I agree that it was a case of “If you are bashful, I am the Queen of England”. She clearly wasn’t bashful, and he was just trying to compliment her on her self confidence. Everybody in the room laughed, nobody at the time thought it was creepy.
Let us defend the right for people to say stupid things in public, even if they are Democrats. I personally have never said anything stupid in public, but I have empathy for those who have.
Comment by Tom Hynes (a2e520) — 3/4/2013 @ 7:36 am
I defend his right to be creepy.
I just think he should be subject to the exact same level of scrutiny as would a Republican.
Comment by JD (b63a52) — 3/4/2013 @ 7:43 am
Yes, that was my reaction too. I don’t even think it was necessarily clueless; I would never have made the phallic association without being primed for it by the blog reaction. I’m reminded of the old joke, “hey, doctor, you’re the one showing me all these dirty pictures!”
It says something, though, that I was reluctant to post that opinion here, for fear of being once again called a Democrat apologist or something.
Comment by Milhouse (15b6fd) — 3/4/2013 @ 4:55 pm
Isn’t making lewd remarks to an underage girl bordering on (if not is) illegal?
Comment by Rorschach (c5574d) — 3/5/2013 @ 1:06 pm