U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx took some more heat yesterday for her remarks on Roger Clemens.
The Banner Elk Republican was ribbed by "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart in a segment on the hearings on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.
Stewart showed a brief series of clips of Republican members of the House oversight committee defending Clemens, ending with Foxx asking Clemens about "how hard you work at keeping yourself in shape." (Watch here at 6:31.)
"Yes, what's your secret?" Stewart mugged afterward. "Perhaps some formula you'd like to tell us about?"
She was also criticized on grammatical grounds by UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor Andy Bechtel, who noted that she meant to ask about his "regimen," not his "regime."
"A word mixup by a member of Congress at a hearing, for example, is less forgivable than one in a phone conversation," he wrote on his blog. "Politicians are supposed to be eloquent and prepared."
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Re: More heat on Foxx over Clemens
We have all done things we are not proud of.
This whole steroids issue reminds me of my college years. I went to college in the 70's. Yes, I smoked marijuana. Just as the majority of the college students of the time did. However, you'll have a hard time finding anybody from that era publicly admitting to it today. Bill Clinton didn't inhale, RIGHT?
Now the steroids. If you played baseball in the late 80's and 90's you either did 'em or knew somebody that did. That's a fact. Nobody will publicly admit it for fear of public outcry and loss of reputation.
I'm calling this phenomenon the "Marry Jane" syndrome.
What was Bud Selig smoking while all this was going on?