Alan Grayson is a bit of a hero on this site for his outspoken defense of progressives and his colorful delivery. I laughed out loud when he called a Berneke advisor a "K Street whore" and his description of Sarah Palin a "wild Alaskan dingbat" is one of my favorite political quotes of all time. I admire Mr. Grayson for his progressive ideals. However, when I tuned in to a C-SPAN webcast of a congressional committee hearing last week, I couldn't believe what I was watching. I was appalled.
The hearing, held by the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife, of the House Natural Resources Committee, was an inquiry concerning captive marine mammals, most notably Sea World parks. Sea World Orlando is in Alan Grayson's district, and I'm sure it's a big source of tax revenues there. It's also the place where the killer whale Tillikum killed his trainer a few months ago, which I'm sure precipitated the hearing. Mr. Grayson's testimony at the beginning of the hearing was an icky, fawning defense of the captive marine mammal industry. Here was Alan Grayson behaving exactly like a corporate whore. I'll add the link, in case you'd like to check it out for yourself. His testimony is very near the beginning.
And since nobody else appears to have called him out on it, here we go...
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