Frist makes ass of himself at Speedway

[BurtWorm]

Dr. Frist working extra hard at connecting with the NASCAR voter... :eyes:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052901082_pf.html


"I think most people project to me as running for the presidency and will look at everything I do," he said patiently. "So I think you have to go back and say why four years ago was I at Bristol, with the same people -- the exact same thing. But whatever I do, the people who are here today -- 180- to 200,000 people who are here -- represent the same values I do. It's patriotism, it is strong on military. It is support of the current leadership of this country -- President Bush. It is the American flag. It is honesty, integrity and family values. And that's exactly the same sort of group that, hopefully, I represent in Washington, D.C."

Frist, who is among the wealthiest of the Senate millionaires because of his family's stake in the hospital chain HCA, recounted his NASCAR roots. "I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee," he said. "Nashville Speedway was about, probably, four miles from my house. My first recollections of stock car racing were being in my house on Bowling Avenue, and on warm summer nights, when I was 7, 8 years old, listening to the sounds of cars."

Frist also pointed out that he "has spent a lot of time around engines, and grew up flying small planes."

He drew an analogy to surgery. "You have a team of about eight to nine people, working on a car, preparing to race tonight -- everything from tires to suspension to engine to appropriate panel size to weight, all coming together almost like a symphony in preparation for a run of 600 miles tonight," he said. "So from a technical aspect, my years as a surgeon who has worked with artificial hearts and lasers and mechanical devices is sort of an innate identification."


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[MemphisTiger]

1. How did he make and ass out of himself?

He's a tool, don't get me wrong, but he didn't pull a bush and misunderpronounce anything did he?

[BurtWorm]

3. Just imagine if Kerry had spoken the way Frist did

comparing a crew pit to a symphony. Saying he was familiar with engines because he'd seen some on his private jets!

And here's another anecdote from the article:


On race day, Frist stumbled during an appearance in the massive media center, referring to Tennessean Sterling Marlin as "Sterling Martin," and failed to correct himself. D'oh!

[MemphisTiger]

4. We should know not to step into that type of venue

That is their stronghold. Kerry at a race would be like Bush going to a Sierra Club meeting. Frist is still an idiot though, who can't win the presidency.

[BurtWorm]

8. Frist is too much of a patrician (and general nonentity) to make

an impression on anyone without a scalpel.

[Orsino]

2. ...And he's still "giddy" over Indy, I'll bet.

What a pathetic attempt.

[BOSSHOG]

5. No bill frist you are wrong

I'm a Navy veteran and I put the time in to earn the right to wave the flag but I don't, only fake patriots do that. I am honest and value my family and integrity. I know all about values frist, and I'm a NASCAR fan but I don't support you or bush or any of the other band of constitution hating bastards that fill up the republican party. You are slaves to the religiously insane and there is no value in that. Please bill frist, run for president. We'll see how many Americans share your "values."

[gratuitous]

6. Incomparably, The Daily Howler dissected the surgeon

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh053005.shtml

[BurtWorm]

12. Very interesting!

BROOKS: In Transplant, his 1990 book about his early days as a surgeon, Frist recalled that his mother "worked hard to protect my sense of self-worth. If Woodmont Grammar school conducted a paper drive, she motored me about afternoon after afternoon, making sure I collected more newspapers than anyone else." (How many middle-class Americans use the word "motored" as a verb?) Frist's mother made sure he sold more raffle tickets, got better grades. "She wanted me never to know humiliation, never to suffer defeat, never to feel self-doubt. . . . Not surprisingly, with the family emphasis on self-worth, I longed to be first in everything, to be king of the hill, the grammar school capo di capo. I imagine I was quite insufferable."


:rofl:

[gratuitous]

14. I just don't know why Frist used the past tense

He's still insufferable.

[formercia]

15. Was it his Mother or the Chauffeur

It was more like Russell Upsom-Grub that did the driving, methinks.

[tnlefty]

7. FrankenFrist strikes again! So, NASCAR=flag and a patriot

values covering up for a fake christian, lying, warmongerin POS, POTUS and sending military members off to kill and possibly be killed based on a pack of lies. Got it. I'm REALLY glad that FrankenFrist doesn't represent me.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Just proves that "he is what he eats" . In this case Bush's ass.

[atommom]

10. And a scalpel is much like a tire iron, is it not?

They're both made of metal, and they're both dangerous in the wrong hands...

[madrchsod]

11. wow

that is one pile of fresh bullshit! stringing all that into one theme must have strained his capacity to think rationally....

[Stinky The Clown]

13. I'm sure he also thinks he has grease under his fingernails

This fuckwad wouldn't know a sparkplug from a doorbell.

[Roland99]

16. How does reviewing videotapes to diagnose someone compare?

[guruoo]

17. Chock full of embellishment, exxageration, & outright lies

Frist didn't live close enough to hear the damn cars!